Monday, August 22, 2005

The New Republic Online: Island Mentality (1 of 2): "How much 'duress' a detainee endures in the interrogation room is a matter of both confusion and controversy. FBI interrogators who visited Guantánamo in 2003 and 2004 informed their superiors that, 'on a couple of occasions,' they found detainees 'chained hand and foot in a fetal position to the floor'--that is, secured to the small bar I saw--'with no chair, food or water. Most times they had urinated or defecated on themselves, and had been left there for 18-24 hours or more.' The air conditioning was set to make interrogation rooms so cold that the detainee was violently shaking or so 'unbearably hot' that the detainee, who endured the temperature for hours, was practically unconscious and had 'apparently been literally pulling his own hair out throughout the night.' Detainees had been blasted with 'extremely loud' songs by Lil' Kim and Eminem, as well as a Meow Mix cat food commercial, for extended periods. In June, Time magazine published excerpts from the interrogation log of the suspected would-be twentieth September 11 hijacker, Mohammed Al Qatani, which states, among other things, that Qatani's questioners injected him with massive amounts of fluids and forced him to urinate on himself. "

Emphasis Mine.

(Via The New Republic.)