WASHINGTON, May 15 (Xinhua) -- A detainee held at the U.S. military at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has denied he had links with al Qaeda and alleged that he was tortured by U.S. personnel, a document released by the Pentagon on Tuesday showed.

    The Pakistani man, Majid Khan, was arrested in Pakistan in 2003and held in CIA's secret prisons before being transferred to Guantanamo last year.

    "I swear to God this place in some sense worst than CIA jails. I am being mentally tortured here," Khan said in a statement on April 15 about his time in Guantanamo, during a hearing by the Combat Status Review Tribunal, a military panel that determines whether detainees at Guantanamo are enemy combatants.

    "There is extensive torture even for the smallest of infractions," he said in the transcript, which was already edited by U.S. military officials.

    Khan, who moved with his family to the United States in 1996, was the only U.S. resident among 15 detainees that the U.S. government considered most dangerous.

    In his statement, Khan said he attempted to commit suicide and stage hunger strikes at Guantanamo, and accused U.S. authorities of not allowing him to meet his family or lawyers.

    U.S. authorities have said that Khan was an al Qaeda operative selected to carry out a possible attack on the United States. ¡¡