Report: Guantanamo detainee draped in Israel flag

[Scurrilous]

CNN report says FBI documents reveal aggressive mistreatment, harsh interrogation techniques of prisoners at Guantanamo detention camp, including sleep deprivation, interrupting detainees' attempts to pray

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3347930,00.html

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"CNN reported on Tuesday that the FBI has released documents showing that at least 26 of the agency's employees witnessed aggressive mistreatment and harsh interrogation techniques of prisoners by other government agencies or outside contractors at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

"On several occasions witnesses saw detainees in interrogation rooms chained hand and foot in fetal position to floor with no chair/food/water; most urinated or defecated on selves and were left there 18, 24 hours or more," according to one FBI account that was published by CNN.

According to the CNN report, one FBI witness saw a detainee "shaking with cold," while another noted a detainee in a sweltering unventilated room was "almost unconscious on a floor with a pile of hair next to him (he had apparently been pulling it out through the night)."

Another witness saw a detainee "with a full beard whose head was wrapped in duct tape," the report said.

CNN quoted from an FBI statement that said an interrogator squatted over the Quran and that a German shepherd dog was ordered to "growl, bark and show his teeth to the prisoner."

Another detainee was draped in an Israeli flag, the statement published by CNN said."

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1. The treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo in atrocious. And it will surely come back to haunt

the US as word of it spreads around the world.

[Tom Joad]

2. Israel helped train US forces on handling of prisoners.

http://www.jinsa.org/articles/articles.html/function/view/categoryid/1701/documentid/2774/history/3,2360,655,1701,2774

Another area where Israel may have contributed valuable know-how is on the area of information extraction from high-level prisoners. Several fringe media sources noted that American forces had utilized interrogation methods considered to be successful that were learned from Israel where physical punishment is banned by law, the same as in the U.S. This story comes from one outlet - Jane’s Foreign Report of July 7, 2004 - and like the issue of the extent of Israeli training for U.S. forces, was also not deemed verifiable by the mainstream press.

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I'm not sure Janes Foreign Report is so "fringe". What is clear is that Israel and the US has been using torture and humiliation against prisoners, if you believe groups like Human Rights Watch, Amnesty, and many Israeli/Palestinian human rights groups.