Ramsi bin al-Shibh is said to have been held by the CIA as a “particularly valuable prisoner” for around 1,300 days. A psychologist has now diagnosed him with post-traumatic stress disorder.
A military judge at the U.S. base at Guantánamo Bay has declared a prisoner accused of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks unfit to stand trial. Military psychiatrists and a forensic psychologist diagnosed Yemeni citizen Ramsi bin al-Shibh with post-traumatic stress disorder with psychotic features and a delusional disorder, according to a court document released Friday. The judge ordered the 51-year-old’s case to be separated from the ongoing 9/11 preliminary proceedings against four other defendants.
The defendant’s lawyer told the military court that his client’s mental health problems stemmed from the torture – including sleep deprivation, waterboarding and other forms of brutal abuse – that he endured during his time as a prisoner of the US foreign secret service CIA. This is what the “New York Times” reported from the military court. According to the newspaper, Ramzi bin al-Shibh was arrested in Pakistan in September 2002. As a “particularly valuable prisoner” he was held by the CIA for around 1,300 days. In 2006, he was transferred to the notorious Guantanamo prison camp on a military base in Cuba.
Ramsi bin al-Shibh is accused of being one of the masterminds of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. He is said to have helped set up a terrorist cell in Hamburg, whose leader was assigned to fly to the World Trade Center in New York on one of the two planes. The attacks of September 11, 2001 killed almost 3,000 people in New York, at the Pentagon in Washington and in Pennsylvania.
Source: Stern
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