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Canwest News ServiceBut hearing told that harsher methods were not used against accused Canadian Omar Khadr faced interrogation techniques known as "fear down" and "fear of incarceration" as he lay sedated on a stretcher, his war crimes commission hearing heard yesterday.
The grilling came just hours after military doctors discharged the Canadian accused of terrorism from hospital, where he had been saved from the brink of death in the intensive care unit alongside U.S. soldiers.
An army master sergeant, identified only as Interrogator No. 2, said he was an observer at the interrogation conducted by a soldier that Canwest News Service can identify as Sgt. Joshua Claus, who was later court-martialled for abusing prisoners, and was involved in an interrogation of a detainee who died.
Claus, whom the court is identifying as Interrogator No. 1, is expected to appear this week as a witness for the defence at the hearing at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Damien Corsetti, another interrogator once known as Monster, and who had a brief interaction with Khadr, will testify for the defence today.
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Harsher techniques carried names such as "fear up," and "harsh fear up," which involved varying degrees of shouting and noisy "theatrics," No. 2 testified. He also referenced "monstering," which involved "multiple interrogators," and "safety positions," which he agreed was the successor name for "stress positions." But he said that dogs "were for security," not interrogations.
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