Bureau Recommends: Terror suspect secretly held on US Navy ship
The Bureau recommends a report away from the ‘phone-hacking’ scandal.
While this is clearly the leading investigation of the moment, it is being so widely covered that we are instead recommending a piece in the Guardian about a Somali terror suspect who was secretly detained and interrogated on a US Navy ship for two months, without charge or access to a lawyer.
Legal documents show Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame was captured in mid-April on a boat between Yemen and Somalia. Officials told the Washington Post he was interrogated on “all but a daily basis” while on board the US ship.
The rules governing the questioning prohibited the controversial techniques used by the CIA post-09/11, such as water boarding, the Guardian reports. Warsame has now been flown to New York and faces a range of terror charges.
Civil rights groups have none-the-less criticised Warsame’s detention as a new form of the CIA’s infamous ‘black site’ detention centres. They say the interrogation was a grave violation of the Geneva Convention that prohibits prolonged detention of suspects at sea, the Guardian reports.
Washington said Warsame was at first questioned for intelligence purposes, circumventing the need for a lawyer to be present and that he was given breaks between periods of questioning.
