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
Al-Qaeda Hierarchy
.
After his March 2002 capture, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operatives took Abu
Zubaydah to
black site in Thailand
(where?) to interrogate him.
The “black sites” used to detain and torture “high-value targets” came about because
CIA had no prisons and need to quickly be able to interrogate
.
The Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA’s) term for the forms of torture they would use on
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- Spring '14
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- Sociology, Central Intelligence Agency, Enhanced interrogation techniques
