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美國顧問： Waterboarding是酷刑
星期四， 2007年11月1日
由 倫納德Doyle 當美國軍事訓練戰士抵抗審訊時，它使用酷刑技術從中世紀，以「waterboarding著名」。 它的用途在恐怖嫌疑犯在秘密美國監獄在世界範圍內來象徵布什政府的嚴肅的熱情為最苛刻的詢問的技術。 雖然waterboarding被認為酷刑在一個世紀，并且美國軍事從使用它被禁止，關於它繼續的用途的爭論由CIA也許將使布什總統的候選人的任命出軌為美國律師一般。 在星期二邁克爾Mukasey、一位退休的聯邦法官從紐約和退伍軍人幾AlQa』 ida試驗，由一個參議院委員會問并且拒绝說waterboarding是否是非法的。 反而，如果他在工作，被證實了他稱技術「反感對我」并且許諾進一步調查。 他解釋他不可能說實踐是否是非法的，因為他在美國審問者秘密方法未簡報，并且他沒有想投入在「個人法律危害」使用它的CIA官員。 2005年即使國會取締了waterboarding在美國軍事，它為CIA沒如此做了。 結果， Mukasey先生告訴了它參議員，是不定的這個技術或其他苛刻的方法是否構成了「殘暴，殘忍或者貶低的」治療。 他的答復沒有滿足民主人士，然而和他的認同現在取決於他是否是願意說酷刑方法反對美國法律。 在進一步窘態為昨天布什先生， Malcolm Nance，一位顧問在恐怖主義到國土安全、特別行動和智力的美國部門，公開地譴責了實踐。 他顯露waterboarding在聖迭戈用於訓練在美國海軍的生存、躲避、抵抗和逃命學校，并且聲稱目擊了和被監督的「數百」 waterboarding的鍛煉。 雖然這些為時仅幾分鐘和發生在醫療監督下，他認為， 「waterboarding是酷刑技術？ 期間」。 實踐介入束縛人被詢問對委員會，當品脫水是牽強的入他的肺通過布料覆蓋物他的面孔，當受害者的嘴是牽強的開始時。 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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