Waterboarding Recounted
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A former CIA officer who participated in the capture and questioning of the first al-Qaeda terrorist suspect to be waterboarded said yesterday that the harsh technique provided an intelligence breakthrough that "probably saved lives," but that he now regards the tactic as torture.
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The CIA's current techniques for interrogation of terrorism suspects are lawful and do not include the widely condemned simulated drowning method known as waterboarding, U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey told Congress on Tuesday.
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A British detainee at Guantanamo Bay has revealed how he saw two prisoners die at the hands of their American captors, before making a plea for his release in the first letter from a serving prisoner at the camp to be made public.
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WASHINGTON  -- Michael Mukasey should be denied Senate confirmation as U.S. attorney general unless the retired judge denounces as torture the interrogation technique known as waterboarding, a top Democrat said on Sunday.
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GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba -- Nearly two dozen detainees at the interrogation prison here tried to hang or strangle themselves during an eight-day period in 2003, including 10 attempts on a single day, the US military has disclosed.
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At times, they feared for their lives. They spent many days with blindfolds pressed against their eyes. Their Iraqi captors were convinced they were spies or proselytizers of Catholicism.
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Description: NPR&#39;s Scott Simon recalls being locked up overnight on the West Bank nearly 20 years ago by a group of young Palestinian men he&#39;d just interviewed.
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The abuse of naked Iraqi prisoners received the bulk of publicity, but those incidents were just some of many clandestine occurrences in which detainees endured shock, burns and mock executions, newly released Pentagon records reveal.
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Evidence against the American terror suspect was obtained through torture, his lawyers say.
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A June 25 report is among dozens of documents made public Tuesday that allege brutal and sometimes illegal interrogation methods employed in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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An American on trial for allegedly torturing Afghan terror suspects in a private jail claimed Saturday in his first interview from custody that he was hot on the heels of Osama bin Laden and other militant leaders when he was arrested on July 5.
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Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey said this morning that waterboarding was deemed legal by the Justice Department at the time it was used by the CIA on three al-Qaeda captives, and as a result the Justice Department "cannot possibly" investigate whether a crime occurred.
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Female interrogators tried to break Muslim detainees at the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay by sexual touching, wearing a miniskirt and thong underwear and in one case smearing a Saudi man's face with fake menstrual blood, according to an insider's written account.
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CIA interrogators used waterboarding on three al-Qaida suspects just after the September 11 attacks, the CIA admitted today
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GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - A detainee was forced to kneel so many times he was bruised, a barber gave reverse mohawks and a female interrogator ran her fingers through a prisonerâs hair and sat in his lap, the US government says in the most
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Staff Sgt. Ivan "Chip" Frederick said in an interview published yesterday that "secret services" operating in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq encouraged the humiliation of detainees.
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GLASGOW - The weary captain and crew of the stricken HMCS Chicoutimi told tales of heroism, fear and survival today in their first public recounting of the fire aboard their sub, with some expressing wonderment that they lived to tell of their ordeal.