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...recent investigative piece in The New York Times, prison workers at Guantanamo Bay’s Camp X-ray described in detail how detainees were tortured in the Cuban detention center. One method involved prisoners being stripped to nothing but their underwear, tied to the floor and made to sit in a chair as interrogators subjected them to loud music, strobe lights and air conditioning turned on to maximum levels for up to 14 hours at a time...
...Defense Department’s response? That the military runs a “safe, humane, and professional detention operation at Guantanamo that is providing valuable information in the war on terror...
...truth, many critics have held that the roughly 600 Guantanamo inmates are low-level fighters who could not possibly be valuable sources of information. Moreover, studies have shown that torture is generally ineffective at gathering information from detainees...
When U.S. officials at Guantanamo Bay reviewed a list of prisoners in March, they decided to send Abdullah Mesud home. Although the 29-year-old Pakistani had been arrested in northern Afghanistan while fighting for the Taliban, he was hobbled by an artificial leg and judged to be a low security risk, according to Pakistani officials who supervised his release...
...Iraq has, of course, had enormous implications…[for example,] the doctrine of pre-emption, the incidents at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo,” Bhabha said. “Never before has America been the focus of so much political hostility...