Report: Bagram Detainee Abuse Routine

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Report: Bagram Detainee Abuse Routine
June 16, 2008
Mclatchy -Tribune News Service

WASHINGTON - Although Defense Department officials deny that detainees at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan or in other American camps were routinely mistreated, official statements and court testimony undercut the claim:

-FBI agents witnessed mistreatment at Guantanamo, according to accounts gathered for a Justice Department report released May 20. One agent reported seeing detainees in interrogation rooms "chained hand and foot in a fetal position on the floor. ... Most times they had urinated or defecated on themselves, and had been left there for 18, 24 hours or more."

Another agent wrote that in October 2002, a U.S. Marine Corps captain squatted over a Quran during an interrogation to get a rise out of the detainee being questioned.

A third agent wrote that during their time at Guantanamo - from June 2003 to July 2004 - they'd spoken with one interrogator who bragged about doing a lap dance on a detainee and another who dressed as a Roman Catholic priest and baptized him.

A fourth agent reported hearing that one soldier would wet her hands and then touch detainees' faces - suggesting that her hands were covered with menstrual blood - to make them "unclean" and incapable of praying.


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