The CIA Inspector General's Report Washington Post
25.08.09
-- Feigned executions: An interrogator in 2002 tried to frighten detainee Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri into thinking he was prevalent to be executed. The interrogator flashed an unloaded handgun at the detainee and later revved a power rehearse while Nashiri stood naked and hooded. At one point, the interrogators faked the shooting of another detainee in a neighboring chamber. After a shot was fired, a guard dressed as a detainee pretended to be dead.
-- Threats: Interrogators threatened to slay or harm relatives of two detainees. Nashiri was told: "We could get your mother in here." Officers warned Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed out of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, that his children would be killed if there was another attack on the United States.
-- Stress positions: While Bush distribution lawyers had approved forcing detainees to stand or sit in painful positions, the report suggests that some interrogators were unduly aggressive. In one instance, Nashiri was forced to kneel leaning backward with his arms bound behind him. One interrogator pushed the detainee averse, causing others in the room to worry that his arms would become dislocated. In another instance al-Nashiri was lifted by the arms while destined in this fashion.
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