Brendan Nicholson; 22/5/08
An FBI agent has described how she watched Australian detainee Mamdouh Habib vomit repeatedly during a lengthy interrogation session at Guantanamo Bay. In a report prepared by the US Justice Department, the agent said that Mr Habib was interrogated in two 15-hour sessions with only a short break between them. The agent, who was not named, said she was not bothered by Mr Habib’s condition at the time, “but in retrospect she questioned whether the treatment of Habib was appropriate”.
FBI staff silenced over torture
Eric Lichtblau & Scott Shane; 22/5/08
As evidence of prisoner mistreatment at Guantanamo Bay began to mount in 2002, FBI agents at the base created a “war crimes file” to document accusations against American military personnel, but were eventually ordered to close the file down, a Justice Department report has disclosed. The report, a 437-page review prepared by the Justice Department inspector-general, provides the fullest account to date of internal dissent and confusion within the Bush Administration over the use of harsh interrogation tactics by the military and the Central Intelligence Agency.In one of several previously undisclosed episodes, the report found that US military interrogators appeared to have collaborated with visiting Chinese officials at Guantanamo Bay to disrupt the sleep of Chinese Muslims held there, waking them every 15 minutes the night before their interviews by the Chinese.
See: http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/fbi-staff-silenced-over-torture/2008/05/21/1211182897520.html
Tags: Australia, Guantanamo Bay, Habib, Terrorism, USA