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dipsydoodle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-11 03:45 PM
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Why Did US Medical Personnel Remove High-Value Detainee Abu Zubaydah's Eye?
Shortly after he was captured in March 2002 at a safe house in Faisalabad, Pakistan, following an early morning raid jointly conducted by the CIA, FBI, Pakistani police and Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Abu Zubaydah woke up at a black site prison in Thailand and discovered that his left eye had been surgically removed.

Zubaydah, who is wearing an eye patch in a photograph included in his Guantanamo threat assessment file released by WikiLeaks last month, apparently never consented to the medical procedure and to this day has no idea why it was done, according to one of Zubaydah's attorneys.

"I can tell you that Abu Zubaydah has no explanation for the loss of his eye," said Brent Mickum, who has represented Zubaydah since 2007. "He continually wants me to make inquiries to try and determine the circumstances for which he lost his eye, but no one has been forthcoming."

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Zubaydah, the first high-value detainee captured in the "war on terror" whom the Bush administration had falsely claimed helped plan the 9/11 attacks and was the "No. 3" person in al-Qaeda, was shot in the leg, groin and stomach with an AK-47 during the March 28, 2002, raid. He allegedly attempted to evade capture by trying to jump from the rooftop of his safe house to the roof of a neighboring house. But the wounds he sustained did not include injuries to his eyes, face or head, according to intelligence officials and photographs of Zubaydah taken as he lay unconscious in a pool of blood, teetering on the brink of death, following the raid.

http://www.truthout.org/abu-zubaydah-eye-removed-guantanamo/1305727623
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secondwind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-11 03:48 PM
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1. I must say, his passport photo shows his left eye rather larger and not appearing to be his own eye.



Very strange.
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roguevalley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-11 04:16 PM
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2. laura bush needed another ear ring to go with her saddam eyeball
I would totally believe it.
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kickysnana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-11 05:52 PM
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3. +1 I love your sense of humor. Wicked. n/t
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