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The Story of Abu Zubaydah

Ali Sufahan spent eight years with the FBI. He describes his experiences in the book The Black Banners, inside the hunt for Al Qaeda. A CIA review board censored parts of the Abu Zubaydah story when the book first appeared in 2011. But last year, the agency allowed the full story to be told in a new reprint.

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