Guantánamo prisoner details torture for first time: ‘I thought I was going to die’

Al-Qaida courier, who could be freed next year despite 26-year sentence, tells court of interrogators' horrific treatment

For the first time, a Guantanamo Bay prisoner who went through the brutal US government interrogation program after the 9/11 attacks has described it openly in court, saying he was left terrified and hallucinating from techniques that the CIA long sought to keep secret.

Majid Khan, a former resident of the Baltimore suburbs who became an al-Qaida courier, told jurors considering his sentence for war crimes that he was subjected to days of painful abuse in the clandestine CIA facilities known as black sites" as interrogators pressed him for information.