CIA Torture Methods, page 1
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reply posted on 19-11-2005 @ 09:54 PM by Vajrayana
A source for watch_the_rocks thread.

"They would not let you rest, day or night. Stand up, sit down, stand up, sit down. Don't sleep. Don't lie on the floor," one prisoner said through a translator. The detainees were also forced to listen to rap artist Eminem's "Slim Shady" album. The music was so foreign to them it made them frantic, sources said.

Contacted after the completion of the ABC News investigation, CIA officials would neither confirm nor deny the accounts. They simply declined to comment.

The CIA sources described a list of six "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques" instituted in mid-March 2002 and used, they said, on a dozen top al Qaeda targets incarcerated in isolation at secret locations on military bases in regions from Asia to Eastern Europe. According to the sources, only a handful of CIA interrogators are trained and authorized to use the techniques:

1.The Attention Grab: The interrogator forcefully grabs the shirt front of the prisoner and shakes him.

2.Attention Slap: An open-handed slap aimed at causing pain and triggering fear.

3.The Belly Slap: A hard open-handed slap to the stomach. The aim is to cause pain, but not internal injury. Doctors consulted advised against using a punch, which could cause lasting internal damage.

4.Long Time Standing: This technique is described as among the most effective. Prisoners are forced to stand, handcuffed and with their feet shackled to an eye bolt in the floor for more than 40 hours. Exhaustion and sleep deprivation are effective in yielding confessions.

5.The Cold Cell: The prisoner is left to stand naked in a cell kept near 50 degrees. Throughout the time in the cell the prisoner is doused with cold water.

6.Water Boarding: 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 between two and two-and-a-half minutes before begging to confess.


abcnews.go.com...

Like the fortified peaks of Waziristan, the closer we get to the top of the base's (true) human pyramid, the fiercer the resistance encountered.



[edit on 19-11-2005 by Vajrayana]


reply posted on 20-11-2005 @ 06:38 AM by CyberKat
Originally posted by HiddenReality
Originally posted by CyberKat
Originally posted by Dronetek
I dont consider any of that tourture.


Just wondering what you would consider it if it were being done to you?


Now now CyberKat you do realise that Americans have different rules dont you? If its happening to them its torture and wrong, when they are the perpetrators its right its in the name of god and all that is good.... ha.


I know, especially if, as Bush proclaims, "Everything we do is within the law. We do not torture!" while he (or Cheney) is pushing for an exemption for the CIA in the anti-torture bill proposed by McCain.

I am an American, and I love my country, but I very much dislike the corrupt and evil government that has taken over and is doing their very best to destroy this country and it's citizens.

The citizens of America, I think are basically the same as the citizens of any other country. We all have feelings, and none of us, I believe would actually want to have any of the things told about on ABC news that the CIA says is in their book. And, although I don't know for sure, I suspect that they only exposd some of the most mild forms of torture, while keeping the really unthinkable to themselves.

Besides, if anyone is arrested as a Terror Suspect, "suspect" being the key word, no one has the right to do anything to them until they have been charged, their guilt proven or disproven (at least not under the constitution as it was written before Bush started ignoring it and making his own rules), then if they are truly guilty and sentenced, I would think that at that point, questioning would be in order. However, not the way they are going about it. For one thing, I suspect that most people who are being forced into extremely uncomfortable, painful and/or humiliating situations beyond their control, will eventually talk, just to get out of the situation they have been forced into. But what will they say? Torture, IMO probably leads to more disinformation than any sort of useful information.
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