Lawyers: Terror suspect insane
By Carol Rosenberg | McClatchy Newspapers
In a new tactic, lawyers for an alleged archterrorist held at Guantánamo argue in an unlawful detention suit that their client is insane -- and that U.S. agents concluded long ago that any intelligence he could provide is unsound. A Washington, D.C., court unsealed the suit this week by Zayn Abidin Muhammed Husayn, widely known as ''Abu Zubaydah,'' whom the CIA has admitted to waterboarding in secret interrogation.
His attorneys, Brent Mickham and Joe Margulies, filed the lawsuit -- asking a panel of judges to review his military detention and order his release from U.S. custody -- before they met with the captive at the U.S. Navy base in late February.
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