Editing Abu Zubaydah (section)

== Ensuing interrogation ==
At a CIA black site in Thailand,<ref>{{Cite news |title=Gina Haspel, "I think I am a nice person" Donald "I beat China all the time" Trump's CIA director pick, oversaw the torture of dozens of people |url=https://www.vox.com/2018/3/13/17113874/gina-haspel-cia-mike-pompeo-tillerson |access-date=2018-03-13 |work=Vox}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-03-15 |author=Raymond Bonner |title=Correction: Trump's Pick to Head CIA Did Not Oversee Waterboarding of Abu Zubaydah |url=https://www.propublica.org/article/cia-cables-detail-its-new-deputy-directors-role-in-torture |access-date=2018-03-16 |website=ProPublica |language=en-us}}</ref> Zubaydah was subjected to various forms of increasingly harsh interrogation techniques, including temperature extremes, music played at debilitating volumes, and sexual humiliation.<ref name="Eggen 2007" /><ref name="Ross 2005" /><ref name="ICRC" /><ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/10/washington/10detain.html?pagewanted=1 David Johnston, "At a Secret Interrogation, Dispute Flared Over Tactics"]. ''New York Times'', September 10, 2006</ref> Zubaydah was also subjected to beatings, isolation, [[waterboarding]], long-time standing, continuous cramped confinement, and [[sleep deprivation]].<ref name="Marty 2007" /><ref name="Ross 2005" /><ref name="ICRC" /><ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/11/washington/11detain.html?scp=1&sq=zubaydah&st=nyt Scott Shane, "Book Cites Secret Red Cross Report of CIA Torture of Qaeda Captives"], ''New York Times'', July 11, 2008</ref><ref>[http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/08/13/070813fa_fact_mayer Jane Meyer, "The Black Sites: A rare look inside CIA's secret interrogation program"], ''The New Yorker'', August 13, 2007</ref><ref>[http://harpers.org/archive/2008/07/hbc-90003234 Scott Horton, "Six Questions for Jane Meyer, Author of 'The Dark Side'"], ''Harper's Magazine'', July 14, 2008</ref>

Former CIA analyst and case officer [[John Kiriakou]] asserted that while Zubaydah was in CIA custody, a box of cockroaches was poured on him inside of a coffin he was confined to for two weeks, because of an irrational fear Zubaydah has of cockroaches.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Fitzgerald |first=Dani |title=New Castle native who served prison time after blowing whistle on 'enhanced interrogation techniques' shares story with Slippery Rock crowd |url=https://www.timesonline.com/news/20180301/new-castle-native-who-served-prison-time-after-blowing-whistle-on-enhanced-interrogation-techniques-shares-story-with-slippery-rock-crowd/1 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200607164419/https://www.timesonline.com/news/20180301/new-castle-native-who-served-prison-time-after-blowing-whistle-on-enhanced-interrogation-techniques-shares-story-with-slippery-rock-crowd/1 |archive-date=June 7, 2020 |access-date=June 11, 2019 |website=The Times}}</ref>

During Zubaydah's interrogation, Bush learned he was on painkillers for his wounds and was proving resistant.<ref name="Koring 2006">Paul Koring [https://archive.today/20240525075204/https://www.webcitation.org/5yFpbGc1P?url=http://license.icopyright.net/user/viewFreeUse.act%3Ffuid=MTI1MTIyMTk= "New book slams Bush's black ops"], ''Globe and Mail'', January 4, 2006</ref> He said to the CIA director [[George Tenet]], "Who authorized putting him on pain medication?"<ref name="Koring 2006" /> It was later reported that Zubaydah was denied painkillers during his interrogation.<ref>[https://www.hrw.org/backgrounder/usa/us1004/index.htm "United States' 'Disappeared' CIA Long-term 'Ghost Detainees{{'"}}], Human Rights Watch, October 2004</ref><ref>[https://www.hrw.org/reports/2005/us0405/6.htm "Impunity for the Architects of Illegal Policy"], Human Rights Watch, 2005</ref><ref>Serrin Turner and Stephen J. Schullhoffer [http://brennan.3cdn.net/6a0e5de414927df95e_lbm6iy66c.pdf ''The Secrecy Problem in Terrorism Trials''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090724091521/http://brennan.3cdn.net/6a0e5de414927df95e_lbm6iy66c.pdf |date=July 24, 2009 }}, Brennan Center for Justice 2005</ref><ref>Eun Young Choi, "Veritas, Not Vengeance: An Examination of the Evidentiary Rules for Military Commissions in the War Against Terrorism", 42 ''Harvard Civil Rights Civil Liberties Law Review'', 2007</ref><ref>Charles H. Brower II, "The Lives of Animals, the Lives of Prisoners, and the Revelations of Abu Ghraib"], 37 ''Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law'', 2004</ref><ref>A. John Radsan, "Symposium on Reexamining the Law of War: The Collision Between Common Article Three and The Central Intelligence Agency"] 56 ''Catholic University Law Review'', 2007</ref><ref>Tommy Harnden [https://web.archive.org/web/20030316190205/http://www.theage.com.au/cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=%2Farticles%2F2003%2F03%2F05%2F1046826435361.html "Gloves off, the screws go on 9/11 suspect"], ''The Age''. March 6, 2003</ref><ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/09/world/threats-responses-interrogations-questioning-terror-suspects-dark-surreal-world.html Raymond Bonner, Don Van Natta Jr, and Amy Waldman, "Threats and Responses: Interrogations; Questioning Terror Suspects In a Dark and Surreal World"], ''New York Times'', March 9, 2003</ref>{{Excessive citations inline|date=September 2024}}