While Abu Zubaydah was inside the large confinement box, workers constructed a plywood wall inside his cell so interrogators could slam him against it during 'walling.'
Sources
- CIA Cables Document Agency's Torture of Abu Zubaydah (propublica.org)
- https://www.therenditionproject.org.uk/about/issues/torture/zubaydah.html (therenditionproject.org.uk)
- https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2009/04/09/us-torture-voices-from-the-black-sites/ (nybooks.com)
- https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/10-craziest-things-in-the-senate-report-on-torture-201077/2/ (rollingstone.com)
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