http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/us-torture Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Sat, 13 Jun 2026 07:23:06 -0400 Sat, 13 Jun 2026 07:23:06 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/276/the-bush-administration-torture-policy-origins-and-consequences By Jeffrey P. Fontas - In March of 2002, US intelligence and law enforcement agents, in collaboration with Pakistani security forces, raided a compound in Faisalabad, Pakistan, where they captured the first “high value detainee” in the War on Terror. Their target, Abu Zubayda, was the alleged logistics chief of Al Qaeda, an organization he joined after teaming up with the jihad against the Soviet Union during their war in Afghanistan. In the raid, he suffered three gunshot wounds, but remarkably survived; but he continued to suffer complications from them long afterward. In any event, the United States believed... Mon, 30 Aug 2010 06:05 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/276/the-bush-administration-torture-policy-origins-and-consequences