[2] The BBC News quoted Katznelson's comments following the release of Bisher Al Rawi:[3] So it was misinformation that started this chain of events, though unfortunately that led to him first being taken by the CIA to Afghanistan to an underground prison of 24-hour darkness with rats everywhere, to then being taken to Guantanamo – and it took years to right this wrong.
Right to the end they treated him with brutality, on the way to the plane in Guantanamo – they knew he was leaving – they insisted still on shackling him, blindfolding him, putting on earmuffs so he couldn't hear a thing and keeping him in the back of a very hot, very confined van on the way to the plane.On 6 September 2009, Katznelson made what The Guardian characterised as "extraordinary claims" on behalf of his client Shaker Aamer.
[4] He repeated accounts Aamer had offered him of severe abuse during his initial interrogations in the Bagram Theater Internment Facility.
[4] Aamer told him about feeling terrified as he recovered from one stunning beating that his interrogators had left him alone in a room with a pistol on the table.
[4]Commenting on Aamer's report that MI5 had tried to recruit him as a spy Katznelson said:[4] You wouldn't make that offer to someone you thought was dangerous.