ibn shaikh al-libi

As mentioned yesterday, Colin Powell’s former State Department chief of staff, ret. Army Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, posted at The Washington Note that an “investigation” he was conducting determined that the Bush administration torture program existed primarily to manufacture “a smoking gun linking Iraq and al-Qa’ida” to justify an invasion. That’s a line of inquiry suggested [...]

The news that was circulating through the Arabic-language press yesterday has now been confirmed by Human Rights Watch, The Washington Post reports. According to a release the group put out last night, a researcher talked to Ibn al-Sheikh al-Libi — the al-Qaeda non-link between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden — barely two weeks ago:
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Check out this Bmaz post at Emptywheel about a rumor circulating through Arabic-language media that Ibn Shaikh al-Libi, a member of al-Qaeda who was tortured at the behest of the United States before claiming that Saddam Hussein had lent material support to the terrorist movement, has committed suicide in a Libyan prison. Confirmation is pending, [...]