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Saturday, July 21, 2007

White House Tells CIA To Resume Secret Prison Interrogation "Methods"

Rules Lay Out C.I.A.’s Tactics in Questioning
New York Times MARK MAZZETTI July 21, 2007 09:38 AM
The White House said Friday that it had given the Central Intelligence Agency approval to resume its use of some severe interrogation methods for questioning terrorism suspects in secret prisons overseas.
With the new authority, administration officials said the C.I.A. could proceed with an interrogation program that had been in limbo since the Supreme Court ruled last year that all prisoners in American captivity be treated in accordance with Geneva Convention prohibitions against humiliating and degrading treatment.
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Associated Press
Twice a day at the U.S. military prison here, Abdul Rahman Shalabi and Zaid Salim Zuhair Ahmed are strapped down in padded restraint chairs and flexible yellow tubes are inserted through their noses and throats. Milky nutritional supplements, mixed with water and olive oil to add calories and ease constipation, pour into their stomachs.
Shalabi, 32, an accused al-Qaida militant who was among the first prisoners taken to Guantanamo, and Ahmed, about 34, have refused to eat for almost two years to protest their conditions and open-ended confinement. In recent months, the number of hunger strikers has grown to two dozen, and the military is using force-feeding to keep them from starving.

1 Comments:

Blogger Unknown said...

We don't torture but our enemies do. No one ever won a fight by being nicer than their opponent, not even a pie fight.
Get a clue, better yet, go live somewhere else besides a nice, cushy, democracy where you actually have rights. What, no balls? I didn't think so.

8/4/09 5:27 PM  

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