While Abu Zubaydah was inside the large confinement box, workers constructed a plywood wall inside his cell so interrogators could slam him against it during 'walling.'
Notes on verification
Corroborated by ProPublica's CIA cable analysis, Abu Zubaydah's own ICRC testimony as compiled by The Rendition Project, Mark Danner's NYRB reporting on the ICRC report, and Rolling Stone's coverage of the Senate torture report. Multiple independent sources converge on the same sequence of events. [tier=silver indep_score=0.8 clusters=3 claim_tier=exceptional]
Sources
- CIA Cables Document Agency's Torture of Abu Zubaydah (seed:conspiracy_and_investigation)
- https://www.therenditionproject.org.uk/about/issues/torture/zubaydah.html (corroboration)
- https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2009/04/09/us-torture-voices-from-the-black-sites/ (corroboration)
- https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/10-craziest-things-in-the-senate-report-on-torture-201077/2/ (corroboration)