Afghan Tells of Ordeal at the ‘Center of Al Qaeda’

KABUL, Afghanistan — Mr. Farahi, 52, spent two years and two months as a captive of Arab members of Al Qaeda in Pakistan’s lawless tribal areas. Questioned under torture for the first six months, he was moved 17 times. Apart from the first days when local Pakistani and Afghan militants handled him, he was always held by Arabs, he said. -- Afghan Tells of Ordeal at the ‘Center of Al Qaeda’ - nytimes