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And they were put on the same Gulfstream jet we’ve seen a lot in rendition operations -- it operates from North Carolina by a company called Aero Contractors, a CIA front company -- and were sent in this plane to a -- first stopping in Egypt and then onto Afghanistan.

He is one of the first witnesses to come out of a CIA dark site, a black site, one of the first to exist, called the “Dark Prison.” And he describes this incredible experience of being locked up day after day, completely on his own, not even questioned, with music bombarding him, the music of madmen, he says, just bombarding him day after day. He said he couldn’t even see the end of his nose; it was that dark. And he was just left there for days on end. It was a form of psychological torture. I mean, eventually he was sent to Bagram, put in a cage in Bagram, beaten up there, he says, and then sent to Guantanamo Bay, where he remained for four years. He has just been released without any charge at all..
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