By Dana Priest and Bradley Graham
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, June 10, 2004; Page A13
A still-classified list of 24 interrogation methods approved for use on Guantanamo Bay detainees includes placing prisoners in uncomfortable interrogation cells and deceiving them into thinking they are in the hands of Middle East interrogators who knew all about their culture, a U.S. government official said.
The list, approved April 16, 2003, after debate between Pentagon lawyers and political appointees, also allows interrogators to give uncooperative prisoners food that is cold or less palatable and to isolate them from their peers, the official said.
The existence of the Guantanamo list was previously known, and a few of its methods have been cited in The Washington Post, including allowing interrogators to subject detainees to irritatingly hot or cold temperatures and to reverse their normal sleep patterns. But the Pentagon has refused to release the list, citing its classified status, and most of the methods have been unknown until now.
The Guantanamo techniques -- including seven that go beyond standard U.S. military doctrine -- appeared on an unofficial list drawn up by an Army captain and posted on a wall of the Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad for use by interrogators there.
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