Who is the brutally tortured black African American journalist?
Suleiman Abdullah Salim:  According to James Risen, in the "New York Times" CIA interrogators tortured him, even though he was a black African man, and the Suleiman Abdullah Salim they had intended to capture was an ethnically Arabic man from Yemen. James Risen: James Risen (born April 27, 1955) is an American journalist for "The New York Times" who previously worked for the "Los Angeles Times".
James Risen