(Ha'aretz) Yossi Melman - The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency runs a top-secret interrogation facility in Jordan, where at least 11 detainees who are considered al-Qaeda's most senior cadre are being held, international intelligence sources say. Their detention outside the U.S. enables CIA interrogators to apply interrogation methods that are banned by U.S. law. The CIA's prisoners in Jordan include Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, considered al-Qaeda's head of operations, along with the Indonesian Hambali, who served as the operations chief for Jemaah Islamiya, behind the attack in Bali that killed over 200 people
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