Abdul Rahim al-Nashiri

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Abdul Rahim Hussein Muhammed Abdu al-Nashiri (Arabic: عبد الرحيم حسين محمد عبده النشري; or Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri ; born January 5, 1965) is a Saudi Arabian citizen of Yemeni descent alleged to be the mastermind of the bombing of USS Cole and other maritime attacks. He is alleged to have headed al-Qaeda operations in the Persian Gulf region and the Arab states in the Persian Gulf prior to his capture in November 2002 by the CIA's Special Activities Division. Al-Nashiri was captured in Dubai in 2002 and held for four years in secret CIA prisons known as "black sites" in Afghanistan, Thailand, Poland, Morocco and Romania, before being transferred to the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. While being interrogated, al-Nashiri was tortured by being waterboarded. In 2005 the CIA destroyed the tapes of Nashiri's waterboarding. In another incident he was stripped naked, hooded and threatened with a gun and a power drill to scare him into talking. Al-Nashiri was granted victim status in 2010 by the...

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