THE NATION - News from May 12, 2009
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A former CIA high-value detainee, who provided bogus information that was cited by the Bush administration in the run-up to the Iraq war, has died in a Libyan prison, an apparent suicide, according to a Libyan newspaper.
A researcher for Human Rights Watch, who met Ibn Shaykh Libi at the Abu Salim prison in Tripoli late last month, said a contact in Libya had confirmed the death.
Senate investigators say Libi was the unidentified source behind Bush administration claims in 2002 and 2003 that Iraq had provided training in chemical and biological weapons to Al Qaeda. Libi recanted after being returned to CIA custody in 2004. He said he had been tortured.
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