Reply #15: Pentagon: We made 9/11 detainee dance with a man and bark like a dog - so we couldn't prosecute him

[Robbien]

Source: Daily Mail UK

The United States does torture, a Pentagon official has admitted for the first time - and that's why the so-called 20th September 11 hijacker was never prosecuted.

'We tortured Qahtani,' Susan Crawford, the Pentagon official overseeing tribunals for detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay, said in an interview.

'His treatment met the legal definition of torture. And that's why I did not refer the case' for prosecution, she told the Washington Post.

Military documents show that Mohammed al-Qahtani’s repeated interrogations included prolonged isolation, sleep deprivation, forced nudity and exposure to cold. He was forced to dance with a male interrogator and to act like a dog, obeying such commands as 'stay,' 'come' 'and 'bark.'

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'It was that medical impact that pushed me over the edge' to call it torture, Crawford told the newspaper.

A Pentagon inquiry in 2005 found that the methods were 'degrading and abusive.' Mr. Qahtani’s lawyers at the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York said they left him a broken man who has attempted suicide.



Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1115723/Pentagon-We-9-11-detainee-dance-man-bark-like-dog-Guantanamo--prosecute-him.html

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The US media on US torture is pretty sedate compared to what is being revealed in international news.