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Cognescenti
Very well. Perhaps you need to educate me. I believe the claimes re Gitmo were bright lights, sleep deprivation, "stress postions" (prolonged squatting), female interrogators, day/night confusion, annoying music......that kind of "torture"
I believe there are a few "high value detainees" that were transfered to Gitmo after interrogation by the CIA somewhere (Eastern Europe? Pakistan?). That the CIA used waterboarding (which, honestly, is torture) has been established.
Remember, I am talking about Gitmo. As it was "plastered" everywhere, it should be easy to find a credible source (Red Cross, Senate hearing, something like that...not Al Jazeera or some Jihadist site or Code Pink)
It was simple: all u had to do was google it....
And im sure i mentioned that it was on channel 9, 10, 7, ABC ... no not aljazeera (my post was deleted the other day during the three day deletes).
Anyway, check this out:
http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=16707
Here is a part of it:
Water-boarding, Threats to Children, and Mock Burials
From the testimonies of a few former CIA detainees and of several Guantanamo detainees who were previously held by the CIA, as well as from documents and intelligence sources, there is abundant information about a range of abuses committed against detainees in CIA custody. Stories of physical violence, sexual humiliation, and extended sleep deprivation have been common.
But there are other, perhaps even more serious abuses, about which we have little direct knowledge. The most notorious of these practices is water-boarding. Although anonymous intelligence sources have spoken frequently of the practice, saying that it has been employed on at least a handful of "high-value" detainees, neither journalists, nor human rights organizations, nor lawyers have ever had access to such detainees. As a result, the precise details of how the practice has been used have yet to be confirmed.
ABC News described water-boarding as follows:
The prisoner is bound to an inclined board, feet raised and head slightly below the feet. Cellophane is wrapped over the prisoner's face and water is poured over him. Unavoidably, the gag reflex kicks in and a terrifying fear of drowning leads to almost instant pleas to bring the treatment to a halt.
According to the sources, CIA officers who subjected themselves to the water boarding technique lasted an average of 14 seconds before caving in. They said al Qaeda's toughest prisoner, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, won the admiration of interrogators when he was able to last over two minutes before begging to confess.
And it was Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, whose two children were picked up with him, who was reportedly subject to another of the most extreme of the CIA's "extreme techniques." According to several former CIA officials interviewed for The One Percent Doctrine, Ron Suskind's recent book, interrogators told Mohammed that his children would be hurt if he didn't cooperate. The children, a boy and a girl, were ages seven and nine.
Finally, according to Newsweek magazine, which could not say whether the practice had actually been used, the CIA also asked for authorization to conduct "mock burials," in which the detainee would be made to believe he was being buried alive.
....and by the way, whats wrong with AlJazeera, is it not up to to ur 'jewish media' standards??? :uhwhat:hmm: