Interrogation

Abu Zubaydah, who managed Al Qaeda's recruiting system for its training camps in Afghanistan, was among the first Qaeda leaders to be captured, and his treatment in detention raised early concerns about the C.I.A.'s harsh tactics.

After his April 2002 capture in Pakistan, he was believed to have been taken to Thailand, where the local government had agreed to allow the C.I.A. to establish a secret interrogation facility for important prisoners. The tactics used on Mr. Zubaydah prompted concern among some F.B.I. agents who were aware of how the C.I.A. was treating him.

  NY Times article

If what we allowed inside Iraq and Guantanamo was not harsh enough torture - and I am not talking only about the humiliation, I am talking about the beatings and electric shocks and other physical torture which sometimes ended in death - imagine what they might be subjected to when the U.S. takes them to another country where there are no legal constraints at all. What do you suppose a secret interrogation facility is equipped with? I mean, a secret interrogation location is one thing, but to refer to a facility alludes to equipment, doesn't it?

In an earlier post, I wrote about an interview with U.S. News & World Report's Edward Pound mentioning the 'ghost detainee' known as XXX....

Apparently the prisoner was taken to another country (sorry I missed the particulars) and then brought back to Iraq at which time Rumsfiend ordered him taken into custody at Camp Cropper, the "high value detention center". There was something about deciding he was an Iraqi national and so he should be in Iraq. Maybe they had him at Gitmo - maybe they had him in one of those countries where torture isn't illegal - but that's just speculative on my part, and so not helpful, is it?

Perhaps prisoner XXX was taken to one of our "secret interrogation facilities for important prisoners" in some country like Thailand. Or maybe prisoner XXX is Zubaydah.