Diary of Terror ; From a Moroccan Dungeon to Kabul's 'Dark Prison'... His Penis Slashed with a Scalpel ... Chained ... Turned Into a Heroin Addict... A Graphic Account of the Agonies This Detainee Alleges He Suffered in the 'Circle of Torture'

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Binyam Mohammed al Habashi is a terror suspect accused of planning a dirty bomb attack in America. His lawyer Clive Stafford Smith is preparing his defence. Binyam's allegations about his treatment are, of course, uncorroborated and largely uncheckable. They should be treated with caution.

But his vivid account paints a similar picture to claims made by other terror suspects subjected to the CIA's programme of 'extraordinary rendition'.

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Diary of Terror ; From a Moroccan Dungeon to Kabul's 'Dark Prison'... His Penis Slashed with a Scalpel ... Chained ... Turned Into a Heroin Addict... A Graphic Account of the Agonies This Detainee Alleges He Suffered in the 'Circle of Torture'

THE MI6 officers arrived just days after Binyam Mohammed al Habashi was arrested trying to board a plane in Karachi in Pakistan with someone else's passport.

As an asylum seeker he did not have a passport, but had borrowed one from a friend in order to go travelling.

The first MI6 officer, known as John, was white, about 30, had short black hair, a goatee beard, was about 5ft 10in tall and stocky. The second, whose name...

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