Abu Zubaydah, then 31, was captured during a joint US-Pakistani raid on a safe house in Faisalabad. The US declared that they had caught the “no. 3 in al Qaeda,” a claim that was never true and would be retracted in later years. During the raid, Abu Zubaydah was shot multiple times. While a doctor ensured he stayed alive, he was denied the medical care he needed. Instead, he was transferred into the first of the secret CIA black sites, where he was tortured brutally.