Time mag reveals cruel and unusual punishment at Gitmo
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Found originally via Drudge Report, article originally from Time magazine. Headline is linked.
TIME Exclusive: Inside the Wire at Gitmo
Which includes this documented evidence that unfortunately the U.S. has resorted to cruel and unusual punishment at Gitmo. Apparently Amnesty International was right, we have resorted to the most heartless forms of torturing prisoners at Gitmo. Apologies are most definitely needed to these poor prisoners, and in fact perhaps to the entire world.
Read on:
On Dec. 2, Rumsfeld approved 16 of 19 stronger coercive methods. Now the interrogators could use stress strategies like standing for prolonged periods, isolation for as long as 30 days, removal of clothing, forced shaving of facial hair, playing on “individual phobias” (such as dogs) and “mild, non-injurious physical contact such as grabbing, poking in the chest with the finger and light pushing.” According to the log, al-Qahtani experienced several of those over the next five weeks. The techniques Rumsfeld balked at included “use of a wet towel or dripping water to induce the misperception of suffocation.” “Our Armed Forces are trained,” a Pentagon memo on the changes read, “to a standard of interrogation that reflects a tradition of restraint.” Nevertheless, the log shows that interrogators poured bottles of water on al-Qahtani’s head when he refused to drink. Interrogators called this game “Drink Water or Wear It.”
Dripping Water or Playing Christina Aguilera Music: After the new measures are approved, the mood in al-Qahtani’s interrogation booth changes dramatically. The interrogation sessions lengthen. The quizzing now starts at midnight, and when Detainee 063 dozes off, interrogators rouse him by dripping water on his head or playing Christina Aguilera music. According to the log, his handlers at one point perform a puppet show “satirizing the detainee’s involvement with al-Qaeda.” He is taken to a new interrogation booth, which is decorated with pictures of 9/11 victims, American flags and red lights. He has to stand for the playing of the U.S. national anthem. His head and beard are shaved. He is returned to his original interrogation booth. A picture of a 9/11 victim is taped to his trousers. Al-Qahtani repeats that he will “not talk until he is interrogated the proper way.” At 7 a.m. on Dec. 4, after a 12-hour, all-night session, he is put to bed for a four-hour nap, TIME reports.
Ugh!!! This is too cruel even for the worst of al-Qaeda terrorists! No one should be forced to endure Christina Aguilera's music!!! No wonder Amnesty International was so sure that Gitmo is the modern day Gulag
I'm soooooo sorry world. Until I read this, I just truly didn't understand. Now I'm absolutely certain that we've crossed the line. Shut it down, shut it down, shut it down.
Or perhaps we should just change the sound track to the original sound track from Titanic. A few times through of listening to to Celine Dion going through My Heart Will Go On will break those prisoners in just a few short hours. Either that tune, or Debbie Boone's You Light Up My Life, either of which the great broadcasters in this country used as psychological torture against our own citizenry.
TIME Exclusive: Inside the Wire at Gitmo
Which includes this documented evidence that unfortunately the U.S. has resorted to cruel and unusual punishment at Gitmo. Apparently Amnesty International was right, we have resorted to the most heartless forms of torturing prisoners at Gitmo. Apologies are most definitely needed to these poor prisoners, and in fact perhaps to the entire world.
Read on:
On Dec. 2, Rumsfeld approved 16 of 19 stronger coercive methods. Now the interrogators could use stress strategies like standing for prolonged periods, isolation for as long as 30 days, removal of clothing, forced shaving of facial hair, playing on “individual phobias” (such as dogs) and “mild, non-injurious physical contact such as grabbing, poking in the chest with the finger and light pushing.” According to the log, al-Qahtani experienced several of those over the next five weeks. The techniques Rumsfeld balked at included “use of a wet towel or dripping water to induce the misperception of suffocation.” “Our Armed Forces are trained,” a Pentagon memo on the changes read, “to a standard of interrogation that reflects a tradition of restraint.” Nevertheless, the log shows that interrogators poured bottles of water on al-Qahtani’s head when he refused to drink. Interrogators called this game “Drink Water or Wear It.”
Dripping Water or Playing Christina Aguilera Music: After the new measures are approved, the mood in al-Qahtani’s interrogation booth changes dramatically. The interrogation sessions lengthen. The quizzing now starts at midnight, and when Detainee 063 dozes off, interrogators rouse him by dripping water on his head or playing Christina Aguilera music. According to the log, his handlers at one point perform a puppet show “satirizing the detainee’s involvement with al-Qaeda.” He is taken to a new interrogation booth, which is decorated with pictures of 9/11 victims, American flags and red lights. He has to stand for the playing of the U.S. national anthem. His head and beard are shaved. He is returned to his original interrogation booth. A picture of a 9/11 victim is taped to his trousers. Al-Qahtani repeats that he will “not talk until he is interrogated the proper way.” At 7 a.m. on Dec. 4, after a 12-hour, all-night session, he is put to bed for a four-hour nap, TIME reports.
Ugh!!! This is too cruel even for the worst of al-Qaeda terrorists! No one should be forced to endure Christina Aguilera's music!!! No wonder Amnesty International was so sure that Gitmo is the modern day Gulag
I'm soooooo sorry world. Until I read this, I just truly didn't understand. Now I'm absolutely certain that we've crossed the line. Shut it down, shut it down, shut it down.
Or perhaps we should just change the sound track to the original sound track from Titanic. A few times through of listening to to Celine Dion going through My Heart Will Go On will break those prisoners in just a few short hours. Either that tune, or Debbie Boone's You Light Up My Life, either of which the great broadcasters in this country used as psychological torture against our own citizenry.
