So the U.S. Senate Select Intelligence Committee has released a summary of its study of the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program. It's a hefty read, yet even at more than 500 pages, the summary is less than 10% of the committee's full report, which may never be declassified in our lifetime.
We've heard a lot about what the report says. But I'd like to focus on one thing the report doesn't say: That the U.S. kidnapped and detained noncombatant children in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq and used them as leverage against family members in CIA and U.S. military custody.
On the top of page 117 of the 525-page document, we find this:
KSM [Khalid Sheikh Mohammed] was described as "[t]ired and sore," with abrasions on his ankles, shins, and wrists, as well as on the back of his head. He also suffered from pedal edema resulting from extended standing. After having concluded that there was "no further movement" in interrogation, the detention personnel hung a picture of KSM's sons in his cell as a way to "[heighten] his imagination concerning where they are, who has them, [and] what is in store for them."And that is the only mention of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's two sons, who were taken by the CIA in September 2002, when they were seven and nine years old.
What happened to Yusuf and Abed al-Khalid?
