Mubarak's deputy linked to secret CIA programReputation of Omar Suleiman – Mubarak's first VP – marred by allegations of torture, extracting false confessions
奧馬爾蘇萊曼 - 穆巴拉克的第一副總统 - 的聲譽被酷刑、選取虛假自白的指控糟蹋
First Published: 2011-02-01
Middle East Online
By Dan De Luce - WASHINGTON
Translation by Autumnson Bllog
'CIA’s point man in Egypt for rendition''美國中情局在埃及的先頭偵察兵'
The man named by President Hosni Mubarak as his first ever deputy, Egyptian spy chief Omar Suleiman, reportedly orchestrated the brutal interrogation of terror suspects abducted by the CIA in a secret program condemned by rights groups.
埃及情報負責人奧馬爾蘇萊曼由胡斯尼穆巴拉克總統任命為他有史以來的第一副手，據說精心策劃那殘酷的恐怖分子疑犯審訊，在一個秘密計劃由美國中央情報局所綁架，並被人權組織譴責。
His role in the shadows of the "war on terror" illustrates the ties that bind the United States and the Egyptian regime, as an unprecedented wave of protests against Mubarak present Washington with a difficult dilemma.
他在“反恐戰”陰影的角色說明那把美國和埃及政權綁在一起的關係，當一空前的抗議浪潮針對穆巴拉克帶給華盛頓一個兩難的處境。
With Mubarak's rule in jeopardy, Suleiman was anointed vice president last week and is now offering wide ranging talks with the opposition in a bid to defuse the crisis.
在穆巴拉克的統治岌岌可危時，蘇萊曼上週被選定為副總統和現在提供範圍廣泛的會談，與反對派以圖化解危機。
Suleiman is a sophisticated operator who carried out sensitive truce negotiations with Israel and the Palestinians as well as talks among rival Palestinian factions, winning the praise of American diplomats.
蘇萊曼是一個複雜的行動者，他與以色列和巴勒斯坦人進行敏感的停戰談判，以及與敵對的巴勒斯坦派別會談，贏得美國外交官的一致好評。
For US intelligence officials, he has been a trusted partner willing to go after Islamist militants without hesitation, targeting homegrown radical groups after they carried out a string of attacks on foreigners.
A product of the US-Egyptian relationship, Suleiman underwent training in the 1980s at the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare School and Center at Fort Bragg in North Carolina.
As spy chief, Suleiman reportedly embraced the CIA's controversial "extraordinary rendition" program under ex-president George W. Bush, in which terror suspects snatched by the Americans were taken to Egypt and other countries without legal proceedings and subjected to harsh interrogations.
He "was the CIA’s point man in Egypt for rendition," Jane Mayer, author of "The Dark Side," wrote on the New Yorker's website.
After taking over as spy director, Suleiman oversaw an agreement with the United States in 1995 - during Bill Clinton's presidency -- that allowed suspected militants to be secretly transferred to Egypt for questioning.
Human rights groups charge the detainees have often faced torture and mistreatment in Egypt and elsewhere, accusing the US government of violating its own legal obligations by handing over suspects to regimes known for abuse.
In the run-up to the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, the CIA relied on Suleiman to accept the transfer of a detainee known as Ibn Sheikh al-Libi, who US officials hoped could prove a link between Iraq's Saddam Hussein and Al-Qaeda.
The suspect was bound and blindfolded and flown to Cairo, where the CIA believed their longtime ally Suleiman would ensure a successful interrogation, according to "The One Percent Doctrine" by author Ron Suskind.
A US Senate report in 2006 describes how the detainee was locked in a cage for hours and beaten, with Egyptian authorities pushing him to confirm alleged connections between Al-Qaeda and Saddam.
Libi eventually told his interrogators that the then Iraqi regime was moving to provide Al-Qaeda with biological and chemical weapons.
When the then US secretary of state Colin Powell made the case for war before the United Nations, he referred to details of Libi's confession.
The detainee eventually recanted his confession.
In "Ghost Plane," a book about the rendition program, journalist Stephen Grey writes that Egypt faced regular public criticism from lawmakers in Congress about its rights record.
"But in secret, men like Omar Suleiman, the country's most powerful spy and secret policeman, did our work, the sort of work that Western countries have no appetite to do themselves," he wrote.
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