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14. Jul 2005

Washington Post om Guantanamo

 
Mens vi læser i den danske presse, at man efter undersøgelser har opgivet at rejse sigtelse mod den tidligere chef for Guantanamo-lejren, da der angiveligt ikke skulle være foregået noget ulovligt, finder vi samtidig en artikel i Washington Post, der sætter nyheden lidt i relief:
Interrogators at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, forced a stubborn detainee to wear women's underwear on his head, confronted him with snarling military working dogs and attached a leash to his chains, according to a newly released military investigation that shows the tactics were employed there months before military police used them on detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
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The report's findings are the strongest indication yet that the abusive practices seen in photographs at Abu Ghraib were not the invention of a small group of thrill-seeking military police officers. The report shows that they were used on Qahtani several months before the United States invaded Iraq.
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... soldiers [apparently] believed that placing hoods on detainees, forcing them to appear nude in front of women and sexually humiliating them were approved interrogation techniques for use on detainees.
Men nej, åbenbart ikke tortur - men når voldtægt og trusler på livet mod fangernes familie åbenbart ikke kan gøre det, hvad skal der mon så egentlig til, for at noget er tortur? Afrevne fingernegle?

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