Paris Court Summons Ex-Guantanamo Chief Over Torture Allegations

In early 2002, Mourad Benchellali found himself locked in a cage at the U.S. military camp at Guantanamo Bay, responding to taunts and blows from his interrogators, as prisoner “161.” “I live in a world where there are 'them and us,' and I am with the Muslim dogs, the 'worst of the worst,'" Benchellali later writes in his book Journey to Hell, recounting his experience at the now-closed Camp X-Ray, used as the first detention facility at Guantanamo for suspected...

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