Authorized Interrogation Techniques
If this isn't enough to make you sick then you're too ill for a cure.
The first -- the attention grab, involving the rough shaking of a prisoner.
Second -- the attention slap, an open-handed slap to the face.
Third -- belly slap, meant to cause temporary pain, but no internal injuries.
Fourth -- long-term standing and sleep deprivation, 40 hours at least, described as the most effective technique.
Fifth -- the cold room. Prisoners left naked in cells kept in the 50s and frequently doused with cold water.
The CIA sources say the sixth, and harshest, technique was called "water boarding," in which a prisoner's face was covered with cellophane, and water is poured over it (pictured above) -- meant to trigger an unbearable gag reflex.
It's been widely reported that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Ramzi Binalshibh were subjected to these techniques. Bush now wants to send them to Guantanamo for military trials. Under Bush's proposed rules, they could be excluded from being present at their own trials.
My interpretation and shorter version: Mohammed and Binalshibh are now vegetables but we'll never know because they will be tried without anyone ever seeing them.
Post-script: Why doesn't the mainstream media, in current reporting on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, write about what the U.S. did to his young sons?
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