Interrogations behind barbed wire
In These Times
by Mischa Gaus
02/14/07
Guards in Guantanamo have borrowed interrogation techniques from training meant to innoculate U.S. soldiers from torture. His psychiatrists call it ‘Groundhog Day.’ Jose Padilla — the once-renowned ‘dirty bomber’ who is now little more than a dim light in the government’s galaxy of desperadoes — has spent almost five years in solitary confinement. Whenever his lawyers attempt to discuss his case with him, he has the same response, begging them over and over again not to. When they try, his face seizes in tics and his body contorts uncontrollably. ‘Mr. Padilla may be suffering from some form of brain injury,’ writes a forensic psychiatrist who evaluated him for his lawyers. His story illuminates what has happened to many prisoners of America’s war on terror...
https://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3019/
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Padilla
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
by Mischa Gaus
02/14/07
Guards in Guantanamo have borrowed interrogation techniques from training meant to innoculate U.S. soldiers from torture. His psychiatrists call it ‘Groundhog Day.’ Jose Padilla — the once-renowned ‘dirty bomber’ who is now little more than a dim light in the government’s galaxy of desperadoes — has spent almost five years in solitary confinement. Whenever his lawyers attempt to discuss his case with him, he has the same response, begging them over and over again not to. When they try, his face seizes in tics and his body contorts uncontrollably. ‘Mr. Padilla may be suffering from some form of brain injury,’ writes a forensic psychiatrist who evaluated him for his lawyers. His story illuminates what has happened to many prisoners of America’s war on terror...
https://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3019/
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Padilla
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
rudkla - 15. Feb, 15:15
