Anyone else catch this story this morning?
Cuba Base Sent Its Interrogators to Iraqi Prison
Reporters Douglas Jehl and Andrea Elliott blithely report:
"To date, there have been no accusations of serious prisoner abuse in connection with interrogations at Guantánamo." here
What are these people smoking? Minimally they should be aware that of UK accounts like this and this.
From the Observer: Tarek Dergoul, a Briton released from the camp in March, talks [to] David Rose, published May 16, 2004:
'I heard a guard talking into his radio, "ERF, ERF, ERF," and I knew what was coming - the Extreme Reaction Force. The five cowards, I called them - five guys running in with riot gear. They pepper-sprayed me in the face and I started vomiting; in all I must have brought up five cupfuls. They pinned me down and attacked me, poking their fingers in my eyes, and forced my head into the toilet pan and flushed. They tied me up like a beast and then they were kneeling on me, kicking and punching. Finally they dragged me out of the cell in chains, into the rec yard, and shaved my beard, my hair, my eyebrows.'
That isn't torture?