Sunday, January 09, 2005

Abuse

Claims of abuse at Guantanamo, which are now being given more credence than before, include the prisoners being
strapped to the floor in an interrogations center known as the Hell Room, wrapped in Israeli flags, taunted by female interrogators who rubbed their bodies against them in sexually suggestive ways, and left alone in refrigerated cells for hours with deafening music blaring in their ears... Many of the FBI accounts came from conscience-stricken agents troubled by what they had witnessed. One agent reported seeing a detainee sitting on the floor of an interrogation cell with an Israeli flag draped around him while he was bombarded by loud music and a strobe light—almost exactly what Al Qosi had alleged.
I am as much offended on behalf of the Israeli flag as they are on behalf of the prisoners.

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