Editing Abu Zubaydah (section)

== Zubaydah's mental health ==
Some people are concerned about Zubaydah's mental stability and how that has affected information he has given to interrogators. [[Ron Suskind]] noted in his book, ''[[The One Percent Doctrine]]: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11'' (2006), that Zubaydah was mentally ill or disabled due to a severe head injury. He described Zubaydah as keeping a diary "in the voice of three people: Hani 1, Hani 2, and Hani 3"—a boy, a young man and a middle-aged alter ego.<ref name="Suskind 2007" /> Zubaydah's diaries spanned ten years and recorded in numbing detail "what he ate, or wore, or trifling things [people] said".<ref name="Eggen 2007" /> Dan Coleman, then the FBI's top al-Qaeda analyst, told a senior bureau official, "This guy is insane, certifiable, split personality."<ref name="Suskind 2007" /> According to Suskind, this judgment was "echoed at the top of CIA and was briefed to the President and Vice President."<ref name="Suskind 2007" /> Coleman stated Zubaydah was a "safehouse keeper" with mental problems, who "claimed to know more about al-Qaeda and its inner workings than he really did."<ref name="Eggen 2007" />

[[Joseph Margulies (lawyer)|Joseph Margulies]], Zubaydah's co-counsel, wrote in an op-ed in the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' in 2009:
<blockquote>Partly as a result of injuries he suffered while he was fighting the communists in Afghanistan, partly as a result of how those injuries were exacerbated by the CIA and partly as a result of his extended isolation, Zubaydah's mental grasp is slipping away. Today, he suffers blinding headaches and has permanent brain damage. He has an excruciating sensitivity to sounds, hearing what others do not. The slightest noise drives him nearly insane. In the last two years alone, he has experienced about 200 seizures. Already, he cannot picture his mother's face or recall his father's name. Gradually, his past, like his future, eludes him.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Marguiles |first=Joseph |author-link=Joseph Margulies (lawyer) |date=April 30, 2009 |title=The suffering of Abu Zubaydah |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-apr-30-oe-margulies30-story.html |url-access=limited |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190718060008/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-apr-30-oe-margulies30-story.html |archive-date=July 18, 2019 |work=Los Angeles Times}}</ref></blockquote>