CIA report: New details of prisoner abuse
US: CIA interrogators carried out mock executions and threatened an
al Qaeda commander with a gun and an electric drill, according to an
internal report that provides new details of abuses inside’s the
agency’s secret prisons, two leading U.S. newspapers reported on
Saturday.
The Central Intelligence Agency inspector general’s report is due to
be released on Monday, The New York Times and The Washington Post said
on their websites, citing U.S. officials familiar with the document.
The tactics — which one official described to the Post as as a
threatened execution — were used on Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri by CIA
jailers who held the handgun and drill close to the prisoner to frighten
him into giving up information.
Nashiri, who was captured in November 2002 and held for four years in
one of the CIA’s “black site” prisons, was one of three al-Qaeda
chieftains later subjected to a form of simulated drowning known as
waterboarding, the paper said.
Washington, Sunday, Reuters |