Disgusting

FBI files detail Guantánamo torture tactics

Captives at Guantánamo Bay were chained hand and foot in a fetal position to the floor for 18 hours or more, urinating and defecating on themselves, an FBI report has revealed.

The accounts of mistreatment were contained in FBI documents released yesterday (pdf) as part of a lawsuit involving the American Civil Liberties Union, a civil liberties group.

In the 2004 inquiry, the FBI asked nearly 500 employees who had served at Guantánamo Bay to report possible mistreatment by law enforcement or military personnel. Twenty-six incidents were reported, some of which had emerged in earlier document releases.

Besides being shackled to the floor, detainees were subjected to extremes of temperature. One witness said he saw a barefoot detainee shaking with cold because the air conditioning had bought the temperature close to freezing.

On another occasion, the air conditioning was off in an unventilated room, making the temperature over 38C (100F) and a detainee lay almost unconscious on the floor with a pile of hair next to him. He had apparently been pulling out his hair throughout the night.

This is just repugnant, torturing another human being, it is beyond my comprehension how anyone can condone such a practice or make it (un)official policy. Torture is of very little use when gathering intelligence, if your causing pain to an individual they'll tell you anything to make it stop, it doesn't make any sense to use it to get information.

Guantanamo Bay is an abomination in itself, holding prisoners without telling them what they are charged with. Its simple, if the detainee is guilty produce evidence and prosecute, if not let them go, its wrong to hold people against their will without telling them why they are in there in the first place.

Makes me very angry reading news such as this.