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Article: US: No plans to torture Abu Zubaydah.
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- United Press International
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- April 3, 2002
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WASHINGTON, Apr 03, 2002
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld strenuously denied Wednesday that U.S. officials have any plans to torture or allow to be tortured Abu Zubaydah, an allehed top- ranking al Qaida operative captured along with 50 others last week by Pakistani troops and FBI agents.
Rumsfeld confirmed the United States is holding Zubaydah and that Zubaydah knows about future planned terrorist attacks.
"He will be properly interrogated, by proper people," Rumsfeld said, angrily responding to a televised report that the administration was debating transferring Zubaydah to a third country that has no rules against torture. "We
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