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Originally Posted by buckman
It's simply wrong to suggest that Abu Zubaida wasn't intimately involved with al-Qaeda," said a U.S. counterterrorism official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because much about Abu Zubaida remains classified. "He was one of the terrorist organization's key facilitators, offered new insights into how the organization operated, provided critical information on senior al-Qaeda figures . . . and identified hundreds of al-Qaeda members. How anyone can minimize that information -- some of the best we had at the time on al-Qaeda -- is beyond me."
From JD's article.......
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You must have not read very closely.
The article clearly states that the US did get valuable information from Abu Zubaida
...using conventional methods and before he was ever tortured... and that the methods later which would be considered torture didn't reveal any useful information.
-spence
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