Washington ? A Saudi terror suspect says U.S. interrogators tortured him for five years and he confessed to involvement in the bombing of the USS Cole just to satisfy them and “make the people happy,” according to a Pentagon transcript of a military hearing at Guantanamo Bay.

Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a Saudi of Yemeni descent, is the second “high value” detainee to contend he was tortured while being held in secret CIA prisons prior to transfer in September to the detention site in Cuba.

In a transcript released Friday by the Pentagon, he said he made up the stories linking him to the Cole attack, which killed 17 U.S. sailors and nearly sank the $1 billion destroyer in 2000 in Aden harbor.

“From the time I was arrested five years ago, they have been torturing me. It happened during interviews. One time they tortured me one way, and another time they tortured me in a different way,” al-Nashiri said, according to the transcript of a hearing March 14 at the Guantanamo detention center. “I just said those things to make the people happy. They were very happy when I told them those things.”

The hearing transcript does not include any details of the torture that al-Nashiri said took place. Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said any allegations would be investigated and that portions of the 36-page transcript were blacked out because of national security concerns. Those details can include interrogation techniques and information about confinement.