202. Binyam testifies that he underwent his first rendition on 21 July 2002. He was set upon by unidentified people "dressed in black, with masks, wearing what looked like Timberland boots". He describes they "stripped [him) naked, took photos, put fingers up [his] anus and dressed (hiin] in a tracksuit. [He] how they was shackled, with earphones, and blindfolded, before being forced onto an aircraft and flown to Morocco. Official flight records obtained by this inquiry show that the known rendition plane, N379P, took off from Islamabad on 21 July 2002 and flew to Rabat, Morocco.
203. Binyam has described various secret detention facilities in which he was held in Morocco, including one prison that was submerged "almost underground and one more sanitary place in which he was apparently placed to recover from injuries sustained from his torture. Between July 2002 and January 2004 Binyam was tortured on numerous occasions by a team of interrogators and other officials, most of whom wore Moroccan. Some of the officials wore masks, while others did not; at least cre interrogator, who identified herself as a Canadian, is thought to have been an American CIA agent,
204. It appears that the object of the torture was to break Binyam's resistance, or to destroy him physically and psychologically, in order to extract confessions from him as to his involvement in terrorist activities. In addition to the sustained abuse and threats, the torturers used information, apparently obtained from intelligence sources, to indicate to Binyam that they knew a lot about him. Much of the personal information-including details of his education, his friendships in London and even his kickboxing trainer- could only have originated from collusion in this interrogation process by UK intelligence services.
