Key Torture Detainee "Commits Suicide"

Add this to the ever growing long list of bullshit the Bush Administration passed on to the American public:

A former CIA high-value detainee, who provided bogus information that was cited by the Bush administration in the run-up to the Iraq war, has died in a Libyan prison, an apparent suicide, according to a Libyan newspaper.

Imagine that? Just as we are getting exposure to the vast illegal activities of Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld and their barbaric love of torture and it's derived misguided intel, one of the guys they tortured, Ibn al-Sheikh al-Libi, who gave false information used to justify the Iraq War "commits suicide". While incarcerated in Libya of all places. Funny how Bush used Libya and Cuba as prisons to do his dirty work and the Republicans and Conservatives didn't blink an eye. That's not pallin' around with the wrong crowd.

The bogus Ibn al-Sheikh al-Libi claims were most famously delivered by then-Secretary of State Colin L. Powell in his address to the United Nations in February 2003.

Just like "Curveball" and Ahmed Chalibi gave all false pre-war Iraqi information, the Bush Administration had made up their mind on going to war. This was all window dressing.

This is not a convenient war and we are learning very inconvenient facts about how America was pushed and tricked into a very costly war. Nonetheless, we need to properly understand all these atrocities and put those responsible up to judgement. That is the only way to move forward.

Source: WaPo