AMMAN, Jordan, Dec. 1 A Jordanian-U.S. citizen once arrested as a terror suspect in Pakistan and allegedly tortured in Jordan before being released has gone missing and may be dead.
After Khalil Deek was arrested as a terror suspect in 1999 by Pakistani officials, the dual Jordanian-U.S. citizen allegedly was transported by the CIA on a covert transport to be tortured as part of the related terror inquiry, The Washington Post reported Saturday.
Deek's defense attorney, Younis Arab, alleges officials in the Jordanian city of Amman repeatedly tortured his client until he began providing them with key information.
"For the first five days, he faced many bad things," Arab alleged. "They beat him, they wouldn't let him take his medicine. When he started speaking with them, this stopped."
Arab said when Deek was finally released from prison in 2001, he was forced to leave Jordan and then disappeared after traveling to Pakistan.
He told the Post one of Deek's brothers informed him the suspected terrorist died in September 2006 while in Pakistan.
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