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Interrogation Memos Detail Psychologists' Involvement; Ethicists Outraged - washingtonp... - 0 views

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US Torture CIA SERE Abu Zubaydah ICRC

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  • The ICRC, which conducted the first independent interviews of CIA detainees in 2006, said the prisoners were told they would not be killed during interrogations, though one was warned that he would be brought to "the verge of death and back again," according to a confidential ICRC report leaked to the New York Review of Books last month.
  • "The interrogation process is contrary to international law and the participation of health personnel in such a process is contrary to international standards of medical ethics," the ICRC report concluded.
  • An Aug. 1, 2002, memo said the CIA relied on its "on-site psychologists" for help in designing an interrogation program for Abu Zubaida and ultimately came up with a list of 10 methods drawn from a U.S. military training program known as Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape, or SERE. That program, used to help prepare pilots to endure torture in the event they are captured, is loosely based on techniques that were used by the Communist Chinese to torture American prisoners of war.
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  • The role played by psychologists in adapting SERE methods for interrogation has been described in books and news articles, including some in The Washington Post. Author Jane Mayer and journalist Katherine Eban separately identified as key figures James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen, two psychologists in Washington state who worked as CIA contractors after 2001 and had extensive experience in SERE training.
  • The CIA psychologists had personal experience with SERE and helped convince CIA officials that harsh tactics would coerce confessions from Abu Zubaida without inflicting permanent harm. Waterboarding was touted as particularly useful because it was "reported to be almost 100 percent effective in producing cooperation," the memo said.
  • The agency then used a psychological assessment of Abu Zubaida to find his vulnerable points. One of them, it turns out, was a severe aversion to bugs. "He appears to have a fear of insects," states the memo, which describes a plan to place a caterpillar or similar creature inside a tiny wooden crate in which Abu Zubaida was confined. CIA officials say the plan was never carried out.
  • Former intelligence officials contend that Abu Zubaida was found to have played a less important role in al-Qaeda than initially believed and that under harsh interrogation he provided little useful information about the organization's plans.
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  • Muslim Academy on 30 Dec 12
     
    Dunia Islam sangat lemah karena terpecah-pecah. Mulai dari zaman dulu sampai sekarang, kita sering mendengar dan melihat para pemerintah negara-negara Islam atau negara-negara berpenduduk mayoritas Muslim saling membantah, saling mengecam, bahkan saling berperang. Lihat saja: Irak dengan Iran dan Kuwait, Libya dengan Arab Saudi, juga konfrontasi Indonesia dengan Malaysia. Lingkup dalam negara juga tidak kalah besar seperti perang saudara di Suriah. Atau tentu belum lama ini terjadi tragedi Sampang antara Sunni dan Syiah di Indonesia.
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