Liberty Star
08-21-2009, 08:58 PM
If these gruesome allegations are true, how did enhanced techniques like "drilling torture" got in the hands of US/UK trained Iraqi security forces?
According to those sources, the report will reveal that the CIA interrogators of suspected USS Cole bomber Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri brandished a gun in front of him in an attempt to make him believe he was going to be shot — thus violating a federal law against threatening a detainee with “imminent death” — and also threatened him with a power drill.
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/08/21/newsweek-cia-report-to-reveal-mock-executions/
'Drilling torture'
This particular technique of torture and killing is a new one to add to an already long list of other forms of torture of which the new Iraqi police force stands accused.
The return to torture and killing by the security forces is another embarrassment for the American and British governments
The list compiled by Human Rights Watch includes beating detainees with cables, hanging them from their wrists for long periods and giving electric shocks to sensitive parts of the body.
From a video given to the BBC by the Association of Muslim Scholars (a Sunni Muslim organisation), it seems another particularly brutal form of torture can also be added - drilling into the knees, elbows and shoulders of victims.
The video shows the body of a Sunni Muslim preacher being washed for burial.
His supporters say he had been picked up by police commandos for allegedly being linked to the insurgency.
The camera focuses on marks all over his body including what appear to be drill holes.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4718999.stm
How far will Obama go to ignore rule of law and investigations of enhanced torture charges?
Is this why Cheney has been shaking lately and apparently cannot walk on his legs any more?
According to those sources, the report will reveal that the CIA interrogators of suspected USS Cole bomber Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri brandished a gun in front of him in an attempt to make him believe he was going to be shot — thus violating a federal law against threatening a detainee with “imminent death” — and also threatened him with a power drill.
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/08/21/newsweek-cia-report-to-reveal-mock-executions/
'Drilling torture'
This particular technique of torture and killing is a new one to add to an already long list of other forms of torture of which the new Iraqi police force stands accused.
The return to torture and killing by the security forces is another embarrassment for the American and British governments
The list compiled by Human Rights Watch includes beating detainees with cables, hanging them from their wrists for long periods and giving electric shocks to sensitive parts of the body.
From a video given to the BBC by the Association of Muslim Scholars (a Sunni Muslim organisation), it seems another particularly brutal form of torture can also be added - drilling into the knees, elbows and shoulders of victims.
The video shows the body of a Sunni Muslim preacher being washed for burial.
His supporters say he had been picked up by police commandos for allegedly being linked to the insurgency.
The camera focuses on marks all over his body including what appear to be drill holes.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4718999.stm
How far will Obama go to ignore rule of law and investigations of enhanced torture charges?
Is this why Cheney has been shaking lately and apparently cannot walk on his legs any more?