Another report of torture at Guantanamo Bay

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WASHINGTON - A military investigation into FBI reports of prisoner abuse at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, recommended that the prison's former commander be reprimanded, but a top general rejected the recommendation, according to a congressional aide familiar with the inquiry's findings.

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According to the congressional aide and another U.S. official, the report found:

• Female interrogators inappropriately touched detainees, including rubbing perfume on one and massaging another's back. Investigators documented that a woman in one case smeared what she described as menstrual blood — it was fake — on a prisoner, but they recommended no further action on the allegation because it happened some time ago.

• Interrogators also threatened one high-value prisoner by saying they would go after his family. This was in violation of U.S. military law, the investigation found.

• Military interrogators impersonated FBI and State Department agents to prisoners. This practice was stopped after the FBI complained.

• Interrogators improperly used duct tape on a detainee. An FBI agent said a prisoner was bound on the head with duct tape, his mouth covered, because he was chanting verse from the Quran.

• Interrogators used cold, heat, loud music and sleep deprivation on prisoners to break their will to resist interrogation. These techniques were approved at certain times at Guantanamo.

• Chaining a detainee to the floor in a fetal position was not authorized; however, the investigation could not confirm an FBI agent's allegation that detainees were left in this positions for long periods to soil themselves.

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