Peter B. Collins Presents Jason Leopold
Investigative journalist Jason Leopold has just published the second of five parts in a series based on the private diaries that were collected when Abu Zubaydah was picked up in Pakistan in March, 2002. Leopold acquired them from an unnamed intelligence source, and they offer insight into Zubaydah’s odyssey from displaced Palestinian raised in Saudi Arabia to jihadist in Afghanistan. The still-classified diaries show that Zubaydah knew bin Laden and other mujahideen, but was definitely not an al Qaeda member or leader, and had no advance knowledge of, or role in 9/11, as originally alleged by US intelligence. He confided to the diary his fear of insects, which was used to create the CIA’s approved torture regimen, which also included waterboarding at least 83 times. The series installments are here, here & here.
Jason Leopold, currently reporting for Al Jazeera, has been reporting for 15 years for Dow Jones, the Los Angeles Times, and Truthout. He’s an investigative reporter covering Guantanamo, counterterrorism, national security, human rights, open government and civil liberties issues. He is the author of a memoir, News Junkie.
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