A/HRC/13/42* page 49 Binalshibh had been flown to Thailand after his capture.182 The New York Times again stated in 2006 that Abu Zubaydah was held in Thailand “according to accounts from five former and current government officials who were briefed on the case.”183 In January 2008, the Asia Times reported that political analysts and diplomats in Thailand suspected that the detention facility was “situated at a military base in the northeastern province of Udon Thani”.184 109. The sources of the Washington Post stated that, after “published reports revealed the existence of the site in June 2003, Thai officials insisted the CIA shut it down”.182 The New York Times alleged later that local officials were said to be growing uneasy about “a black site outside Bangkok code-named Cat’s Eye” and that this was a reason for the CIA to want “its own, more permanent detention centers”.185 110. In 2008, the Washington Post described on the basis of interviews with “more than two dozen current and former U.S. officials” how a “classified cable” had been sent between the CIA station chief in Bangkok and his superiors “asking if he could destroy videotapes recorded at a secret CIA prison in Thailand … from August to December 2002 to demonstrate that interrogators were following the detailed rules set by lawyers and medical experts in Washington, and were not causing a detainee’s death.” The newspaper also reported “several of the inspector general’s deputies traveled to Bangkok to view the tapes.” 186 The Office of the Inspector General reviewed 92 videotapes in May 2003, 12 of which included “enhanced interrogation techniques” and identified 83 waterboarding sessions on Abu Zubaydah at a “foreign site”. From the OIG report it seems that Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri were detained and interrogated at the same place.187 This information could not be verified, as the location of the interrogation is redacted in the report of the CIA Officer General, although 182 Dana Priest, “CIA holds terror suspects in secret prisons”, Washington Post, 2 November 2005. Available from www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/article/2005/11/01/AR2005110101644.html. 183 David Johnston, “At a secret interrogation, dispute flared over tactics” New York Times, 10 September 2006. Available from www.nytimes.com/2006/09/10/washington/10detain.html. 184 Shawn W. Crispin, “US and Thailand: allies in torture”, Asia Times, 25 January 2008. Available from www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/JA25Ae01.html. 185 David Johnston and Mark Mazzetti, Interrogation inc: A window into CIA’s embrace of secret jails, in The New York Times, 12 August 2009. Available from www.nytimes.com/2009/08/13/world/13foggo.html?_r=2&ref=global-home . 186 Joby Warrick and Walter Pincus, “Station chief made appeal to destroy CIA tapes”, Washington Post, 16 January 2008, available from www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/article/2008/01/15/AR2008011504090.html. 187 CIA Inspector General, Special Review, “Counterterrorism detention and interrogation activities (September 2001 - October 2003) (2003-7123-IG), 7 May 2004, unclassified version released 24 August 2009, paras. 74 and 91.