Confession that formed base of Iraq war was acquired under torture: journalist

"An Al-Qaeda terror suspect captured by the United States, who gave evidence of links between Iraq and the terror network, confessed after being tortured, a journalist told the BBC.

"Iban al Shakh al Libby told intelligence agents that he was close to Al-Qaeda leaders Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri and 'understood an awful lot about the inner workings of Al-Qaeda,' former FBI agent Jack Clonan told the broadcaster.

"Libby was tortured in an Egyptian prison, according to Stephen Grey, the author of the newly-released book 'Ghost Plane' who investigated the secret US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) prisons that housed terror suspects around the world."
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