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美国顾问： Waterboarding是酷刑
星期四， 2007年11月1日
由 伦纳德Doyle 当美国军事训练战士抵抗审讯时，它使用酷刑技术从中世纪，以“waterboarding著名”。 它的用途在恐怖嫌疑犯在秘密美国监狱在世界范围内来象征布什政府的严肃的热情为最苛刻的询问的技术。 虽然waterboarding被认为酷刑在一个世纪，并且美国军事从使用它被禁止，关于它继续的用途的争论由CIA也许将使布什总统的候选人的任命出轨为美国律师一般。 在星期二迈克尔Mukasey、一位退休的联邦法官从纽约和退伍军人几AlQa’ ida试验，由一个参议院委员会问并且拒绝说waterboarding是否是非法的。 反而，如果他在工作，被证实了他称技术“反感对我”并且许诺进一步调查。 他解释他不可能说实践是否是非法的，因为他在美国审问者秘密方法未简报，并且他没有想投入在“个人法律危害”使用它的CIA官员。 2005年即使国会取缔了waterboarding在美国军事，它为CIA没如此做了。 结果， Mukasey先生告诉了它参议员，是不定的这个技术或其他苛刻的方法是否构成了“残暴，残忍或者贬低的”治疗。 他的答复没有满足民主人士，然而和他的认同现在取决于他是否是愿意说酷刑方法反对美国法律。 在进一步窘态为昨天布什先生， Malcolm Nance，一位顾问在恐怖主义到国土安全、特别行动和智力的美国部门，公开地谴责了实践。 他显露waterboarding在圣迭戈用于训练在美国海军的生存、躲避、抵抗和逃命学校，并且声称目击了和被监督的“数百” waterboarding的锻炼。 虽然这些为时仅几分钟和发生在医疗监督下，他认为， “waterboarding是酷刑技术？ 期间”。 实践介入束缚人被询问对委员会，当品脱水是牵强的入他的肺通过布料覆盖物他的面孔，当受害者的嘴是牵强的开始时。 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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