US memo justified use of drugs for interrogations
23/4/08
Adel al-Nusairi remembers his first six months at Guantanamo Bay as this: hours and hours of questions, but first, a needle. “I’d fall asleep [after the shot],” Mr Nusairi, a former Saudi policeman captured by US forces in Afghanistan in 2002, recalled in an interview with his lawyer at the military prison in Cuba. After being roused, Mr Nusairi eventually did talk, giving US officials what he later described as a made-up confession to get some peace. “I was completely gone,” he remembered. “I said, ‘Let me go. I want to go to sleep. If it takes saying I’m a member of al-Qaeda, I will.’ ”
Tags: Guantanamo Bay, Terrorism, Torture, USA