New Documents Detail CIA Torture of Owings Mills HS Grad

An Owings Mills High School graduate endured torture at the hands of the CIA after being captured on a trip to Pakistan, where he was linked to an al-Qaida attack in Indonesia, according to reports.

Majid Khan, 35, has been in Guantanamo for more than eight years and is charged with war crimes, according to The New York Times, which obtained documents stating he was of high intelligence value to the government.

Khan alleged the CIA poured ice water on his genitals and videotaped him naked to obtain information, according to The Independent.

He was also hung from a ceiling while agents touched his genitals and kept in darkness for nearly a year, the Center for Constitutional Rights reported.

The center is representing Khan and said its attorneys had to battle with U.S. officials for a year to be able to meet with their client at Guantanamo after he was kept at CIA black sites abroad for three years. He was reportedly transferred to the U.S. in 2006.

Government officials in the past month approved the release of his attorney’s notes about Khan’s treatment while in custody, following a formal review process, according to Reuters.

Khan was born in Pakistan and moved with family to the Baltimore area in 1996, graduated high school in 1999 and worked at the family’s gas station business and with computers, according to Department of Defense documents.

In 2002, he went to Pakistan to find a wife and became close to his uncle and cousin who were members of al-Qaida, the documents state.

While abroad, he helped deliver money to finance the al-Qaida bombing of a Jakarta hotel in 2003 that killed 11 people and volunteered to orchestrate gas station bombings and water reservoir poisonings in the U.S. until he was captured in March 2003, according to defense documents.

He was charged in 2012 with murder, conspiracy, spying and other charges and could face up to 19 years in jail in exchange for cooperating with U.S. officials as a witness, according to Reuters.