Study guide for FMG video #114694: “Secrets, Politics and Torture”
After the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers in New York City,
members of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) were very worried about a second
attack.
In meetings with officers from the Counterterrorism Center, the name Abu
Zubaydah kept coming up as someone who was a key figure in __
the al-Qaeda
hierarchy.
After his March 2002 capture, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operatives took Abu
Zubaydah to __
a black site in Thailand
___ (where?) to interrogate him.
The “black sites” used to detain and torture “high-value targets” came about because
_______.
The CIA had no prisons. No one else, including the military,
wanted these high level prisoners. We had to put them somewhere and we
had to do it quickly. And that's how black sites came about.
The Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA’s) term for the forms of torture they would use on
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- Spring '14
- Central Intelligence Agency, Abu Zubaydah, high-value targets
