Mohammed Omar Abdel-Rahman (محمد عمر عبدالرحمن) is an Egyptian who was in

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custody in one of the

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's " black sites". Also known as "Asadullah" (''i.e. The lion of God.'')

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reports he is the son of

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Omar Abdel-Rahman Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman (), (ʾUmar ʾAbd ar-Raḥmān; 3 May 1938 – 18 February 2017), commonly known in the United States as "The Blind Sheikh", was a blind Egyptians, Egyptian Islamist militant who served a Life imprisonment, life senten ...

, the "blind sheikh" who was convicted of involvement in the first

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bombing of the

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, in 1993. Mohammed is alleged to have run a training camp, and to have had a role in operational planning. An e-mail from Mohammed led to the capture of

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. Human Rights Watch reported that Mohammed was captured in February 2003, in

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. Mohammed was later extradited to Egypt and was released in 2010. On December 9, 2014, the

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Intelligence Committee published the 600-page unclassified summary of a 6,000-page report on the CIA's use of

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. While some of the CIA's captives were identified as having been subjected only to torture that had been authorized from Washington, other captives, like Asadallah, were identified as having been tortured by CIA officials who did not have authorization. According to the ''

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'', the Intelligence Committee described how ''"Interrogators used water dousing, forced nudity, and cramped confinement on Asadallah without having sought or received authorization from CIA Headquarters."''

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