Observer: CIA to use torture in Afghanistan war
Terrified | 04.11.2001 16:09
Below is a short section taken from this article in today's Observer(the rest of the article is worth reading too.The world's greatest terrorists are at it again. The horror of the state is again apparent to us all.
Jason Burke in Peshawar
Sunday November 4, 2001
The Observer
http://www.observer.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1501,587388,00.html
"Meanwhile, the CIA prepares for a next phase in its war on terrorism on the ground, and the issue of torture comes to the fore as a legal and political hot potato in Washington.
Behind the scenes, reports from Washington say that the agency is now short of agents who know how to torture or to extract information. The CIA was amply staffed with people who developed torture expertise during the 'dirty wars' in Central and South America, but these agents have gone into retirement.
Now the agency is trying to redevelop and retrain agents in rough interrogation techniques. Among them are the use of high-decibel music, and recordings of dying people and animals.
One intelligence source told The Observer that former agents are being drafted back to advise the CIA on how to conduct 'interrogations involving an element of physical pressure'".
Sunday November 4, 2001
The Observer
http://www.observer.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1501,587388,00.html "Meanwhile, the CIA prepares for a next phase in its war on terrorism on the ground, and the issue of torture comes to the fore as a legal and political hot potato in Washington.
Behind the scenes, reports from Washington say that the agency is now short of agents who know how to torture or to extract information. The CIA was amply staffed with people who developed torture expertise during the 'dirty wars' in Central and South America, but these agents have gone into retirement.
Now the agency is trying to redevelop and retrain agents in rough interrogation techniques. Among them are the use of high-decibel music, and recordings of dying people and animals.
One intelligence source told The Observer that former agents are being drafted back to advise the CIA on how to conduct 'interrogations involving an element of physical pressure'".
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