A Tunisian national who was jailed at CIA secret prisons in Afghanistan as well as at Guantanamo Bay has filed a lawsuit accusing the US of torture. The suit by Rafiq Alhami is believed to be the first alleging torture well before the Justice Department issued a secret memo authorizing waterboarding and other methods in August 2002. Alhami was arrested in November 2001 and says his torture began one month later. He was allegedly stripped naked, threatened with dogs, shackled in painful positions for hours and beaten. Alhami also says interrogators sprayed pepper spray on his hemorrhoids, causing harsh pain.