'04 Pentagon Report Cited Detention Concerns

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A previously undisclosed Pentagon report concluded that the three terrorism suspects held at a brig in South Carolina were subjected to months of isolation, and it warned that their "unique" solitary confinement could be viewed as violating U.S. detention standards.

According to a summary of the 2004 report obtained by The Washington Post, interrogators attempted to deprive one detainee, Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, a Qatari citizen and former student in Peoria, Ill., of sleep and religious comfort by taking away his Koran, warm food, mattresses and pillow as part of an interrogation plan approved by the high-level Joint Forces Command.


Interrogators also prevented the International Committee of the Red Cross from visiting at least one detainee, according to the report, which noted evidence of other unspecified, unauthorized interrogation techniques.

The report by the Navy's inspector general was presented to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld in May 2004 and was declassified in 2005. It was the first to raise the question of mistreatment of alleged enemy combatants inside the United States.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/13/AR2006121302399.html

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. and there, but for the grace of God

are you and I. ANYONE can be declared an "enemy combatant" and whisked away, never to be seen again.

[LynnTheDem]

2. America; Land of Torture

And it'll take generations before that stigma is erased.