UNDER OATH: Defense Gets Interrogator to Suggest Khadr Was Tortured

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Defense Gets Interrogator to Suggest Khadr Was Tortured
By Spencer Ackerman 5/4/10 2:33 PM

GUANTANAMO BAY — After a tough morning session for the defense, Lt. Col. Jon Jackson, Omar Khadr’s military lawyer, brought some momentum back to his team. Jackson cross-examined an Army master sergeant, known to the court only as “Interrogator #2,” who participated in an early interrogation of Khadr at Bagram in the summer of 2002. Jackson got Interrogator #2 to affirm that he was familiar with the old Geneva Conventions-compliant Army field manual on interrogation, formerly known as FM 34-52. Specifically, Interrogator #2 recalled that the manual cited as an example of torture “forcing an individual to stand, sit or kneel in abnormal positions for a prolonged period of time.”

Then, recalling that a medic called Mr. M testified yesterday that guards shackled Khadr’s arms at forehead level as a punishment, Jackson asked if such an “abnormal position” would include “standing with your hands shackled, even with your forehead.”

“It could be, sir,” Interrogator #2 said. He conceded he had heard of an “air lock technique,” where a detainee was forced to stand with their hands held outside a hole in the outer door of their cell. The differences with Khadr’s case and the “air lock” is that Khadr was shackled with his hands held at forehead height, not straight out, and the “air lock” doesn’t involve shackling. “But they put their hands through, and stay there?” “Yes,” Interrogator #2 said.

That’s directly relevant for this hearing. If the defense can show that Khadr was abused early in his detention, it stands a greater chance of persuading Col. Patrick Parrish, the military judge presiding over the case, to rule that Khadr’s statements to interrogators were unreasonably coerced — jeopardizing the government’s case not just against Khadr, but potentially against other detainees tried before military commissions.
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[Winterblues]

1. I do not want any enemy of America to walk and I truly wish it were

Bush* and Cheney on trial there instead but, I really do not want this person to walk if there is any chance he is guilty.. It is just sickening that America became a country that lost all human dignity.