'Rough' Interrogations Defended
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White House saw only tactics causing severe, lasting pain as torture, Justice official testifies.
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A British citizen being held at GuantÃ¡namo Bay was subjected to &quot;vindictive torture&quot; and death threats while in US custody, according to claims in a letter he wrote that has been published today.
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Uncooperative Guantanamo Bay detainees were regularly subjected to highly abusive treatment over a long period of time, unidentified guards at the US military base, intelligence agents and others who worked in the prison told The New
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Analysis: Despite the furor over destroyed interrogation tapes, Congress's track record on torture does not bode well for a hard-hitting investigation
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OSNABRUECK, Germany  - One of three British soldiers on trial for alleged mistreatment of Iraqi detainees was following orders to get tough with captured looters, his lawyer said.
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Videotapes of riot squads subduing troublesome terror suspects at the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay show the guards punching some detainees, tying one to a gurney for questioning, and forcing a dozen to strip from the waist down, according to a secret report. One squad was all female, traumatizing some Muslim prisoners.
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An Australian suspect held by the United States in Guantanamo Bay has alleged he was tortured by water and electrodes during interrogation in Egypt, national radio reported.
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There are fresh allegations that prisoners under US custody in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, suffered serious physical abuse from their interrogators.
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One of the United States' top judges said in an interview broadcast in Britain on Tuesday that interrogators can inflict pain to obtain critical information about an imminent terrorist threat.
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A US-based human rights group has challenged Americaâs treatment of 11 al-Qaeda suspects, saying some have âdisappearedâ in US custody while others may have been tortured.
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President Bushâs nominee for attorney general declined to say if he considered harsh interrogation techniques to be torture or to be illegal when used against terrorist suspects.
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By Demetri Sevastopulo in Washington and Frances Williams in Geneva. The International Committee of the Red Cross has accused the US of using psychological and physical pressure to interrogate prisoners at
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WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration is facing a wave of new allegations that the abuse of foreign detainees in US military custody was more widespread, varied, and grave in the past three years than the Defense Department has long maintained.
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President Bush made an impassioned defense of his proposed rules for the interrogation and prosecution of terrorism suspects.
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Attorney General Michael Mukasey on Friday rejected demands from congressional leaders to share information about the CIA's destruction of detainee interrogation tapes. In a response letter, he reminded people that, "At my confirmation hearing, I testified that I would...resist political pressure and ensure that politics plays no role in cases brought by the Department of Justice."
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A British detainee at Guantanamo Bay yesterday claimed he had been subjected to &quot;vindictive torture&quot; and death threats by the US authorities.
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Some Democratic senators suggested for the first time that they might oppose Michael B. Mukasey if he does not make clear that he opposes harsh interrogation techniques.