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Consigliere degli Stati Uniti: Waterboarding è tortura
Giovedì 1° novembre 2007
Quando i militari degli Stati Uniti addestrano i soldati per resistere all'interrogazione, usa una tecnica di tortura da Medio Evo, conosciuti come “waterboarding„. Il relativo uso sui sospetti di terrore nelle prigioni segrete degli Stati Uniti intorno al mondo è venuto a symbolise l'entusiasmo di nessun-assurdità della gestione di Bush per le tecniche interroganti più dure. Anche se waterboarding è stato considerato tortura per durante un secolo ed i militari degli Stati Uniti sono vietati dal usando, l'eccedenza di polemica il relativo uso continuo dal CIA può stare circa per fare deragliare la nomina del candidato del presidente Bush per il Attorney General degli Stati Uniti. Michael Mukasey, un giudice federale pensionato da New York e un veterano dei parecchi' prove di ida Al-Qa, è stato interrogato da un comitato del senato il martedì ed è stato rifiutato per dire se waterboarding era illegale. Invece, ha denominato la tecnica “ripugnante a me„ ed ha promesso di studiare più a fondo se fosse confermato nel lavoro. Ha spiegato che non potrebbe dire ancora se la pratica era illegale perché non era stato riassunto sui metodi segreti degli interrogatori degli Stati Uniti e non ha desiderato mettere gli ufficiali di CIA che la hanno usata “nel pericolo legale personale„. Anche se il congresso ha vietato waterboarding nei militari degli Stati Uniti in 2005, non ha fatto così per il CIA. Di conseguenza, il sig. i senatori detti a Mukasey, era incerto se questa tecnica o altri metodi duri costituisse il trattamento “crudele, inumano o degradante„. Le sue risposte non hanno soddisfatto le carbossimetilazioni, tuttavia e la sua approvazione ora munisce sopra se è disposto a dire che il metodo di tortura è contro legge degli Stati Uniti. In un imbarazzo ulteriore per il sig. Bush ieri, Malcolm Nance, un consigliere su terrorismo ai reparti degli Stati Uniti di sicurezza della patria, dei funzionamenti speciali e dell'intelligenza, hanno denunciato pubblicamente la pratica. Ha rivelato che waterboarding è usato nell'addestramento alla scuola di sopravvivenza, di evasione, di resistenza e di fuga del blu marino degli Stati Uniti a San Diego ed è esatto per testimoniare e “centinaia„ sorvegliate delle esercitazioni waterboarding. Anche se questo l'ultimo soltanto alcuni minuti ed avviene sotto controllo medico, lui ha concluso che “waterboarding è una tecnica di tortura? periodo„. La pratica coinvolge legare la persona che è consultata sopra ad un bordo mentre le pinte di acqua sono forzate nei suoi polmoni attraverso un panno che copre la sua faccia mentre la bocca della vittima è forzata si apre. Its effect, according to Mr Nance, is a process of slow-motion suffocation. Typically, a victim goes into hysterics on the board as water fills his lungs. “How much the victim is to drown,” Mr Nance wrote in an article for the Small Wars Journal, “depends on the desired result and the obstinacy of the subject. “A team doctor watches the quantity of water that is ingested and for the physiological signs which show when the drowning effect goes from painful psychological experience to horrific, suffocating punishment, to the final death spiral. For the uninitiated, it is horrifying to watch.” The CIA director Michael Hayden has tried to defuse the controversy. He claims that, since 2002, aggressive interrogation methods in which a prisoner believes he is about to die have been used on only about 30 of the 100 al-Qai’da suspects being held by the US. Meanwhile, a CIA official told The New York Times waterboarding had only been used three times. The Bush administration has suggested that the interrogation of al-Qai’da’s second-in-command, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, was a success thanks to the technique, and used this to justify continued aggressive interrogations of suspects in secret CIA prisons. While US media reports typically state that waterboarding involves “simulated drowning”, Mr Nance explained that “since the lungs are actually filling with water”, there is nothing simulated about it. “Waterboarding,” he said, “is slow-motion suffocation with enough time to contemplate the inevitability of blackout and expiration. When done right, it is controlled death.” Mr Nance said US troops were trained to withstand waterboarding, watched by a doctor, a psychologist, an interrogator and a backup team. “When performed with even moderate intensity over an extended time on an unsuspecting prisoner ? it is torture, without doubt,” he added. “Most people cannot stand to watch a high-intensity, kinetic interrogation. One has to overcome basic human decency to endure watching or causing the effects. The brutality would force you into a personal moral dilemma between humanity and hatred. It would leave you to question the meaning of what it is to be an American.” Mr Mukasey’s nomination goes before the Senate next week. Three Democratic presidential candidates, including Hillary Clinton, have already said they will not support him. However, the White House said yesterday that it did not believe his nomination was in jeopardy. ‘I felt I was drowning and I was in terrible agony’ Henri Alleg, a journalist, was tortured in 1957 by French forces in Algeria. He described the ordeal of water torture in his book The Question. Soldiers strapped him over a plank, wrapped his head in cloth and positioned it beneath a running tap. He recalled: “The rag was soaked rapidly. Water flowed everywhere: in my mouth, in my nose, all over my face. But for a while I could still breathe in some small gulps of air. I tried, by contracting my throat, to take in as little water as possible and to resist suffocation by keeping air in my lungs for as long as I could. But I couldn’t hold on for more than a few moments. I had the impression of drowning, and a terrible agony, that of death itself, took possession of me. In spite of myself, all the muscles of my body struggled uselessly to save me from suffocation. In spite of myself, the fingers of both my hands shook uncontrollably. ‘That’s it! He’s going to talk,’ said a voice. The water stopped running and they took away the rag. I was able to breathe. In the gloom, I saw the lieutenants and the captain, who, with a cigarette between his lips, was hitting my stomach with his fist to make me throw out the water I had swallowed.” From: Alleg, Henri, The Question, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln: 2006; original French edition ? 1958 by Editions de Minuit Have Your Say: US advisor: Waterboarding is torture Please read our posting guidelines before posting. Alternatively you can discuss this report here. Related News
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