Along with the waterboarding, Mohammed was subjected to days of standing sleep deprivation, slapping and "stress positions," the report says. And it says that several times he underwent an emergency medical procedure known as "rectal rehydration," or proctolysis, which standard medical references describe as a way to quickly replace fluids in a patient who is in shock or unconscious.
The report matter-of-factly notes that such treatment was "medically unnecessary" for Mohammed, whom it describes as having been doused with, submerged in or force-fed water hundreds of times.
After one session, the medical officer present reported that Mohammed's gastric contents were "so diluted by water" that Mohammed was in danger of water intoxication. The medical officer later wrote that "in the new technique we are basically doing a series of near drownings. The report concluded that the maneuvering to shield Mohammed and other high-value detainees was part of a CIA campaign to actively impede the national security missions not only of the FBI, but also of President George W.
I arrived at night. The transfer from the plane to the place of detention took about minutes. During my time in this place I could hear planes taking off and landing. I think the place was Bagram. After arrival my clothes were cut off of me, the bag and blindfold were removed and photographs were taken of me naked.
I remained naked throughout the three days I stayed in this place of detention. I was checked by a doctor and asked about my medical history. I told the doctor about the pain I was still suffering from the beating in Pakistan. I was then placed in a cell, about 2m x 4m, naked, where I was kept in a standing position with my hands cuffed and chained to a bar above my head. My feet were flat on the floor. At first I was questioned for about one hour with no other forms of ill treatment.
After about one hour I was taken to another room where I was made to stand on tiptoes for about two hours during questioning. Approximately thirteen persons were in the room. These included the head interrogator a man and two female interrogators, plus about ten muscle guys wearing masks. I think they were all Americans. From time to time one of the muscle guys would punch me in the chest and stomach. This was repeated during two nights. Also during this period I was on four occasions taken to a separate room from the main interrogation room.
Here cold water from buckets was thrown onto me for about forty minutes. Not constantly as it took time to refill the buckets. After which I would be taken back to the interrogation room. On one occasion during interrogation I was offered water to drink, when I refused I was taken to another room where I was made to lie on the floor with three persons holding me down.
A tube was inserted into my anus and water poured inside. They raided them that September. Mohammed was gone, but Bin Shibh was captured after an hours-long gun battle. A Pakistani intelligence officer likened the scene to a western movie, in which the sheriff arrives just after the outlaw fled leaving the ashes of his campfire still warm. Human rights advocates have repeatedly denounced the torture program as ineffective and brutal. Joseph Margulies , a law professor at Cornell University who once represented Abu Zubaydah, said the brutal methods helped numb America to wrongdoing.
But it is something else altogether that so much of the rest of the country is utterly indifferent; that is a commentary on us.
A wrong that escapes public condemnation is no wrong at all. Worse, it invites not simply repetition, but expansion. Yesterday, we tortured men in cages because we thought they had done something wrong; today, we torture children at the border knowing they have done no wrong at all.
I refuse to play that game. Instead, I encourage people to ask themselves this: Would you recoil in horror if you saw the same things done to a dog?
If you saw a dog strapped to a board and nearly drowned, again and again, would it make you cringe and wince? Would you turn away and demand that it stop? No information provided by Mohammed led directly to the capture of a terrorist or the disruption of a terrorist plot. Here are some quotations from C. An official C. The C. The last day was March 25, Mohammed did reveal some fascinating information after the torture ended. For instance, more than a week after the waterboarding was over, Mohammed told his interrogators that he had been with Ayman al-Zawahiri, the current leader of Al Qaeda, the day before his capture.
Mohammed also claimed that much of the information he had given under torture was false, and in at least several instances that turned out to be correct. The most disturbing incident happened on March 21, , after the C. Mohammed, the other detainee said, wanted to recruit Muslims in the U.
According to the Senate report, a C. The supervisor wanted Mohammed to say who these individuals were.
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