Will the architects of CIA torture regime finally be held to account?

By Paul McGeough
Updated May 21 2016 - 12:33am, first published May 20 2016 - 11:23pm
Suleiman Abdullah Salim was a victim of the CIA's torture regime in the war against terror from 2002-2008. The American Civil Liberties union is claiming compensatory and punitive damages in the US courts on behalf of Salim, Mohamed ben Soud, and the family of Gul Rahman (who died in CIA custody).  Photo: ACLU
Suleiman Abdullah Salim was a victim of the CIA's torture regime in the war against terror from 2002-2008. The American Civil Liberties union is claiming compensatory and punitive damages in the US courts on behalf of Salim, Mohamed ben Soud, and the family of Gul Rahman (who died in CIA custody). Photo: ACLU
Mohammed Ahmed Ben Soud was a victim of the CIA's torture regime in the war against terror from 2002-2008.  Photo: ACLU
Mohammed Ahmed Ben Soud was a victim of the CIA's torture regime in the war against terror from 2002-2008. Photo: ACLU
In this undated photo released by Habib Rahman, Gul Rahman is shown. Gul Rahman died in 2002, while held at a secret CIA prison in Afghanistan, known as the Salt Pit.  Rahman is the only detainee known to have died in a CIA-run prison.  Photo: Anonymous
In this undated photo released by Habib Rahman, Gul Rahman is shown. Gul Rahman died in 2002, while held at a secret CIA prison in Afghanistan, known as the Salt Pit. Rahman is the only detainee known to have died in a CIA-run prison. Photo: Anonymous

He doesn't forget. Plucked from a very ordinary existence in Somalia, the Tanzanian fisherman Suleiman Abdullah Salim was subjected to extraordinary treatment in Afghanistan.

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