Saturday, April 15, 2006

| Army report on al-Qaida accuses Rumsfeld

Making it official.

Guardian Unlimited Special reports Army report on al-Qaida accuses Rumsfeld:

"Donald Rumsfeld was directly linked to prisoner abuse for the first time yesterday, when it emerged he had been 'personally involved' in a Guant�namo Bay interrogation found by military investigators to have been 'degrading and abusive'.

Human Rights Watch last night called for a special prosecutor to be appointed to investigate whether the defence secretary could be criminally liable for the treatment of Mohamed al-Qahtani, a Saudi al-Qaida suspect forced to wear women's underwear, stand naked in front of a woman interrogator, and to perform 'dog tricks' on a leash, in late 2002 and early 2003. The US rights group said it had obtained a copy of the interrogation log, which showed he was also subjected to sleep deprivation and forced to maintain 'stress' positions; it concluded that the treatment 'amounted to torture'."

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