Washington Times: No Gitmo torture, Senate panel told

[steve2470]

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20050714-121552-8634r.htm


By Rowan Scarborough
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
July 14, 2005

A military investigation of interrogations at U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, found no torture occurred, but one high-value al Qaeda operative was subjected to "abusive and degrading treatment" when he was forced to wear a brassiere, do dog tricks and stay awake for 20 hours a day.
"We looked at this very, very carefully -- no torture occurred," Air Force Lt. Gen. Randall M. Schmidt testified yesterday before the Senate Armed Services Committee. "Detention and interrogation operations across the board ... looking through all the evidence that we could, were safe, secure and humane."
Gen. Schmidt's investigative report marked the most extensive look yet at the Bush administration's jailing and interrogation of suspected al Qaeda and Taliban operatives seized in Afghanistan since the late 2001 U.S.-led invasion of that country.
Human-rights groups like Amnesty International and some congressional Democrats, including Senate Minority Whip Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, have accused the administration of torturing detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison.

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[bobbieinok]

1. military investigated itself and found nothing wrong----surprise! surprise

says Gomer Pyle

and International Red Cross and Amnesty International are not permitted entrance

I think German POW camps operated the same way

[steve2470]

2. Probe details Guantanamo humiliations

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20050714/GUANTANAMO14/TPInternational/Americas


Probe details Guantanamo humiliations
Prisoner forced to wear women's clothing, tied with a leash, forced to do dog tricks

By ALAN FREEMAN

Thursday, July 14, 2005 Page A14

WASHINGTON -- The interrogations went on for up to 20 hours a day, day after day. The prisoner was told his mother and sisters were whores. He was forced to wear a bra and put a thong on his head. At one point, an interrogator tied a leash to him and forced him to conduct a series of dog tricks.

It all took place at the U.S. detention centre in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in an effort to get suspected al-Qaeda member Mohamed al-Kahtani to co-operate with his interrogators.

Military investigators appointed to look into allegations of abuse at Guantanamo provided to a U.S. Senate committee graphic detail yesterday of the "creative interrogation techniques" used to soften up enemy combatants at the prison that has been subject of sharp criticism by human rights advocates.

The senators were told how Mr. al-Kahtani, a Saudi, was captured in December of 2001 on the Afghan-Pakistani border after the collapse of the Taliban regime. It was later discovered he had tried to enter the United States to take part in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks but had been refused entry at the airport in Orlando.

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