TheStar.com - U.S. doctors linked to POW `torture': "Jun. 23, 2005. 06:25 AM | SHANE T. MCCOY/AP | Guantanamo medical records misused | Basis of interrogators' strategy: Report | TANYA TALAGA AND KAREN PALMER | STAFF REPORTERS
Detainee medical records are being used to design more effective interrogation techniques at Guantanamo Bay, says a new report.
Medical records compiled by doctors caring for prisoners at the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo Bay are being tapped to design more effective interrogation techniques, says an explosive new report.
Doctors, nurses and medics caring for the approximately 600 prisoners at the U.S. naval base in Cuba are required to provide health information to military and CIA interrogators, according to the report in the respected New England Journal of Medicine.
"Since late 2003, psychiatrists and psychologists (at Guantanamo) have been part of a strategy that employs extreme stress, combined with behaviour-shaping rewards, to extract actionable intelligence from resistant captives," it states.
Such tactics are considered torture by many authorities, the authors note. ...
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