Thursday, July 14, 2005

All the way to the top

When the Abu Ghraib torture tactics first became known, a common suspicion on leftie blogs was that the source for these heinous acts was not the MPs from Maryland, chastised as thrill-seeking frat boys (glad I wasn't in those critics' frats - yikes), but rather someone high within the chain of command. looks like we were right:

Interrogators at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, forced a stubborn detainee to wear women's underwear on his head, confronted him with snarling military working dogs and attached a leash to his chains, according to a newly released military investigation that shows the tactics were employed there months before military police used them on detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

The techniques, approved by Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld for use in interrogating Mohamed Qahtani -- the alleged "20th hijacker" in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks -- were used at Guantanamo Bay in late 2002 as part of a special interrogation plan aimed at breaking down the silent detainee.

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