Guantanamo Bay detainees: We were drugged

[maddezmom]

Source: Washington Post

Questions raised about pre-interrogation injections; U.S. denies coercion


WASHINGTON - 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, Nusairi, a former Saudi policeman captured by U.S. forces in Afghanistan in 2002, recalled in an interview with his attorney at the military prison in Cuba, according to notes. After being roused, Nusairi eventually did talk, giving U.S. officials what he later described as a made-up confession to buy 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.' "

~snip~

The Defense Department and the CIA, the two agencies responsible for detaining terrorism suspects, both deny using drugs as an enhancement for interrogations, and suggest that the stories from Nusairi and others like him are either fabrications or mistaken interpretations of routine medical treatment.

'Mind-altering substances'
Yet the allegations have resurfaced because of the release this month of a 2003 Justice Department memo that explicitly condoned the use of drugs on detainees.



Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24250989/

[NM Independent]

1. Now, I NEVER thought they would do anything like that.

:sarcasm:

[maddezmom]

2. APA Statement on Psychiatric Practices at Guantanamo Bay, June 2005

APA Statement on Psychiatric Practices at Guantanamo Bay
Main Category: Psychology / Psychiatry
Article Date: 28 Jun 2005 - 5:00 PDT

The American Psychiatric Association (APA) is troubled by recent reports regarding alleged violations of professional medical ethics by psychiatrists at Guantanamo Bay. APA is reviewing issues related to psychiatry and interrogation procedures and plans to develop a specific policy statement in the near future.

APA is not neutral on physician practices and clearly recommends that psychiatric physicians practice in accordance with the APA ethics guidelines, which are also in accordance with the medical code of ethics set forth in the Principles of Medical Ethics of the American Medical Association (AMA).


more:http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/26718.php

[maddezmom]

3. Psychological warfare

Psychological warfare
Angered that their professional organization has adopted a policy condoning psychologists' participation in "war on terror" interrogations, many psychologists are vowing to stage a battle royal at the APA's annual meeting.

By Mark Benjamin

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AP Photo/Lynne Sladky

An Afghan detainee is carried on a stretcher before being interrogated at Camp X-Ray at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, on Feb. 2, 2002.

July 26, 2006 | WASHINGTON -- The 150,000-member American Psychological Association is facing an internal revolt over its year-old policy that condones the participation of psychologists in the interrogations of prisoners during the Bush administration's "war on terror."

Last summer, the APA adopted new ethical principles drafted by a task force of 10 psychologists, who were selected by the organization's leadership. That controversial task-force report, which is now official APA policy, stated that psychologists participating in terror-related interrogations are fulfilling "a valuable and ethical role to assist in protecting our nation, other nations, and innocent civilians from harm."

But Salon has learned that six of the 10 psychologists on the task force have close ties to the military. The names and backgrounds of the task force participants were not made public by the APA; Salon obtained them from congressional sources. Four of the psychologists who crafted the permissive policy were involved with the handling of detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, or served with the military in Afghanistan -- all environments where serious cases of abuse have been documented.

APA president Gerald Koocher, who handpicked the task-force members along with the organization's former president Ronald Levant, said in an interview that the psychologists' military and national-security backgrounds did not raise conflict of interest or broader questions about the task force and its report. He defended choosing psychologists with such backgrounds, saying "they had special knowledge to contribute."

The 10-member task force enunciated the new principles for interrogations in a June 2005 report. The 11 pages of ethical obligations include 12 statements on interrogations, including one directing psychologists to report abuse and remember that suspects may be innocent. But detractors say its ban on "torture or other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment" is pro forma, an insufficient safeguard in the post-9/11 atmosphere

more:http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/07/26/interrogation/

[rgbecker]

6. Now remember, good doctors, "They may be innocent." WTF?

Can't wait to read the other of 12 statements on ethical obligations of interrogations.

[lostnfound]

4. This is a standard part of the shock treatment

Naomi Klein writes of it in The Shock Doctrine. Drugged periods of extended sleep is simply another tactic to disrupt the prisoner's sense of time and place and of who they are. Right up there with sleep deprivation, sensory deprivation, loud noise, stress positions. Used in the 1950s CIA-funded lab in Canada by Dr Ewen Cameron.

[truth2power]

8. Exactly as you said. Must reading for everyone. "The Torture Lab:

Ewen Cameron, the CIA and the Maniacal Quest to Erase and Remake the Human Mind." Chapter 1 of Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine".

Everyone must read this book and pass the word about what's being done, all over again.

Follow with Chapter 2 - "The Other Doctor Shock: Milton Friedman and the Search for a Laissez-Faire Laboratory" and you have the whole picture.

[Broadslidin]

5. Why not, just have a good 'ol "Peaceful Pot Party"...

Sure would like to obtain the list of
mind manipulating government :patriot: sanctioned drugs
prescribed by Dr. Pinder for Our Fearless Leader.

[madrchsod]

7. the russians were kicked out of the international psychiatric association

for using mental hospitals and using the same procedures that we are using in gitmo. there are some really sick people masquerading as doctors....


welcome to the christan right`s new world order

[IsItJustMe]

9. I pray either of our candidates, if elected president, will not continue these horrible practices.

[Gonnuts]

10. Anyone believing anything coming out of Gitmo is a fool or worse

Watch this latest documentary on mind manipulation and tell me we haven't got damaged goods.

http://www.moviesfoundonline.com/horizon_total_isolation.php

Just the fact that we have Gitmo is a national shame and disgrace to our Constitution and all we're suppose to be about - let's not even mention "rendition" - such a nice word for kidnap, torture and murder.

There is another shame to be added - us. Yesterday and today our "Torturer in Chief" is in my city. For a good part of the day I was no farther than 100 yards away from this vapid, vile poor excuse of a man and as far as I could tell I was the ONLY person voicing and descent. New Orleans is not a very big city, and where bush was staying a mere 500 protesters could of blocked every exit, but I didn't see one other person, NOT FUCKING ONE out protesting. The only other person I ran into that was in a rage about bush being in town wasn't up-set because he's a lying, murdering, sadistic, pathetic coward, NO! She was upset because roads were blocked and she had to make a detour to get where she was going!

So FUCK BUSH - AND FUCK YOU!!! Get off your God-Damn asses and DO SOMETHING!!!