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WASHINGTON -- The U.S. military staged interrogations of terrorism suspects for lawmakers and other officials visiting the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to make it appear they were obtaining valuable intelligence, according to a newly published book written by a former Lackawanna County resident. Former Army Sgt. Erik Saar, a 1993 graduate of Abington Heights High School, said the military chose detainees for the mock interrogations who previously had been cooperative and instructed them to repeat what they had told interrogators in earlier sessions, according to an interview with the CBS television program "60 Minutes" that aired Sunday night....

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Female interrogators tried to break Muslim detainees at the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay by sexual touching, wearing miniskirts and thong underwear and in one case smearing a Saudi man’s face with fake menstrual blood, according to an insider’s written account. A draft manuscript obtained by the Associated Press is classified as secret pending a Pentagon review for a planned book that details ways the U.S. military used women as part of tougher physical and psychological interrogation tactics to get terror suspects to talk. It’s the most revealing account so far of interrogations at...