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De adviseur van de V.S.: Waterboarding is marteling
Donderdag, 1 November, 2007
Door Leonard Doyle Wanneer de militaire de treinenmilitairen van de V.S. om zich tegen ondervraging te verzetten, het een martelingstechniek van de MiddenLeeftijden gebruikt, gekend als „het waterboarding“. Zijn gebruik op verschrikkingsverdachten in is de geheime gevangenissen van de V.S. rond de wereld gekomen om het zinnige enthousiasme van het beleid van Bush voor de ruwste het vragen technieken te symboliseren. Hoewel het waterboarding als marteling voor over een eeuw is beschouwd en de militaire V.S. van het gebruiken van het worden verboden, kan de controverse over zijn voortdurend gebruik door de CIA op het punt staan de benoeming van de kandidaat van President Bush's voor Attorney-General van de V.S. te ontsporen. Michael Mukasey, een teruggetrokken federale rechter van New York en een veteraan van verscheidene al-Qa' ida proeven, werden gevraagd door een commissie van de Senaat voor Dinsdag en weigerden om te zeggen of waterboarding onwettig was. In plaats daarvan, riep hij de techniek „aan me“ weerzinwekkend en beloofde verder te onderzoeken als hij in de baan werd bevestigd. Hij verklaarde dat hij niet kon nog zeggen of de praktijk onwettig was omdat hij niet op de geheime methodes van de ondervragers was geļnformeerds van de V.S. en hij niet de ambtenaren van de CIA wilde zetten die het in „persoonlijk wettelijk gevaar“ gebruikten. Alhoewel het Congres het waterboarding in de V.S. militair in 2005 verbood, deed het niet dit voor de CIA. Dientengevolge, vertelde M. Mukasey senatoren, was het onzeker of deze techniek of andere ruwe methodes „wrede, onmenselijke of degraderende“ behandeling vormden. Zijn antwoorden stelden niet de Democraten tevreden, echter, en zijn goedkeuring voorziet nu van een scharnier op of hij bereid is te zeggen de martelingsmethode tegen V.S.- wet is. In een verdere verlegenheid voor M. Bush gisteren, stelden Malcolm Nance, een adviseur op terrorisme aan de Ministeries van de V.S. van de Veiligheid van het Geboorteland, Speciale Verrichtingen en Intelligentie, openbaar de praktijk aan de kaak. Hij openbaarde dat het waterboarding in opleiding op de School van de Overleving, van de Ontwijking, van de Weerstand en van de Vlucht van de Marine van de V.S. in San Diego wordt gebruikt, en eiste getuigd te hebben en „honderden“ te controleren van het waterboarding van oefeningen. Hoewel vinden deze laatste slechts een paar notulen en onder medische supervisie plaats, besloot hij die „het waterboarding een martelingstechniek is? periode“. De praktijk impliceert het vastbinden van de persoon die op een raad wordt ondervraagd aangezien de pinten van water in zijn longen door een doek gedwongen worden die zijn gezicht behandelt terwijl de mond van het slachtoffer gedwongen open is. 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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