US doctors accused over Guant‡namo abuse

[CottonBear]

US doctors accused over Guant‡namo abuse

Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington
Friday January 7, 2005
The Guardian

Doctors at Guant‡namo Bay and Abu Ghraib used their medical knowledge to help devise coercive interrogation methods for detainees including sleep deprivation, stress positions and other abuse, it was reported yesterday.

An article in the New England Journal of Medicine provides the most authoritative account so far that doctors were active participants in the abuse of prisoners in America's "war on terror".

"Clearly, the medical personnel who helped to develop and execute aggressive counter-resistance plans thereby breached the laws of war," says the article, which is based on interviews with more than two dozen military personnel and recently released official documents. It adds: "The conclusion that doctors participated in torture is premature, but there is probable cause for suspecting it."

The issue that the administration had encouraged the use of coercive interrogation techniques was raised yesterday in the Senate confirmation hearings of Alberto Gonzales, the presidential nominee for attorney general. Mr Gonzales was attacked for a memo which said only the most severe types of torture were not permissible under US law.

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[Lautremont]

1. It's time to watch "The Evil That Men Do" again.

That's the one where Bronson fights a torturer named "The Doctor."

[yinkaafrica]

5. Bronson was cool

Very wise man, as well.

[janx]

2. Hang on a second--

please remember that Gonzo and others are looking for anything and anyone but themselves upon which to blame this.

It sounds very seductive, in a nazi-like kind of way, but be careful...Military doctors, especially those who have seen the results of war, are not the most likely "bad guys."

[CottonBear]

4. Good point. n/t

[NYC]

3. Who other than Bush would want

someone like Gonzales to be Attorney General? Who else would have the audacity to submit him for a senate confirmation hearing?

...Mr Gonzales was attacked for a memo which said only the most severe types of torture were not permissible under US law...

[yinkaafrica]

7. Only Bush would nominate 666 calibre individuals.

The beast is with us.

[genieroze]

6. Paging Dr's Josef Mengele and Joseph Goebbels .

Sig Heil Heir *

[yinkaafrica]

8. Bush would hire those guys in a heartbeat.

Why mess around with a second string beast?