FBI report shows mistreatment of Guantanamo detainees
Afp, Washington
A Guantanamo official squatted over a Koran in front of a chained detainee and another bearded detainee's head was wrapped in heavy packing tape as he prayed, a newly released FBI document on mistreatment at the war-on-terror prison reports. The incidents were among more than 30 cited by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in an internal 2004 poll on possible abuse witnessed at the US Navy prison facility at Guantanamo, Cuba. Alleged abuse at the prison, used to hold hundreds of people captured in the US war on terror launched in 2001, included beatings, keeping detainees in extremely hot or cold rooms, menacing them with dogs, and sexual harassment by female guards, according to FBI agents who had witnessed or learned of the incidents while at Guantanamo, according to the report. The report released Tuesday was based on a poll of nearly 500 FBI agents who had worked at Guantanamo. Twenty-six of them recounted abuse or possible abuse at the hands of other US officials that the FBI agents had knowledge of, some of it witnessed first-hand.
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