Wednesday, July 13, 2005

Guantanamo Bay interrogators degraded and abused a key prisoner : "wear a bra and had women's thong underwear placed on his head"

Excite News: " Report cites 'degrading' Guantanamo treatment | Jul 13, 4:32 PM (ET) | By Will Dunham

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Guantanamo Bay interrogators degraded and abused a key prisoner but did not torture him when they told him he was gay, forced him to dance with another man and made him wear a bra and perform dog tricks, military investigators said on Wednesday.

The general who heads Southern Command, responsible for the jail for foreign terrorism suspects at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, also said he rejected his investigators' recommendation to punish a former commander of the prison.

A military report presented before the Senate Armed Services Committee stated a Saudi man, described as the '20th hijacker' slated to have participated in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on America, was forced by interrogators in late 2002 to wear a bra and had women's thong underwear placed on his head."

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