Mock Executions Conducted By CIA – Report
There is little doubt that a report to be revealed next week will once again ignite a firestorm of controversy surrounding the interrogation methods used on suspected terrorists. The timing of it’s release is already being questioned.
The long-suppressed report by the Central Intelligence Agency’s inspector general to be released next week reveals that CIA interrogators staged mock executions as part of the agency’s post-9/11 program to detain and question terror suspects, NEWSWEEK has learned.
According to two sources one who has read a draft of the paper and one who was briefed on it the report describes how one detainee, suspected USS Cole bomber Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, was threatened with a gun and a power drill during the course of CIA interrogation. According to the sources, who like others quoted in this article asked not to be named while discussing sensitive information, Nashiri’s interrogators brandished the gun in an effort to convince him that he was going to be shot. Interrogators also turned on a power drill and held it near him. “The purpose was to scare him into giving [information] up,” said one of the sources. A federal law banning the use of torture expressly forbids threatening a detainee with “imminent death.”
The report also says, according to the sources, that a mock execution was staged in a room next to a detainee, during which a gunshot was fired in an effort to make the suspect believe that another prisoner had been killed. The inspector general’s report alludes to more than one mock execution.
It’s easy to sit back and be a critic of the actions of the brave people on the front lines, while we’re back in the US; the Country those brave few are trying to protect. It saddens me when the media believes it’s alright to reveal the actions of the Agencies assigned to gather information for the protection of our people.
I don’t feel any thing done in the above story was abuse!we are at war with these people war is ugley…I feel the photo shoots were much worse then the above story.how many of our men that are detained only worry is a drill and waterboarding,a bug,Ect. this is a day in the park compaired to them.and in 20 or so years they will be sent home and have a party at the airport!
I agree completely with Richard. If those trying to protect us need to threaten people or use other such tactics, isn’t this better than the alternative? We need to remember that those being interrogated are not peace-loving folks — they want to act on their hatred, and the CIA and other protecting our country are trying to stop them!