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  • Doctors and Interrogators at Guantanamo Bay

    07/11/2005 11:56:27 AM PDT · by Axhandle · 39 replies · 1,061+ views
    The New England Journal of Medicine ^ | 7 July 2005 | M. Gregg Bloche, M.D., J.D., and Jonathan H. Marks, M.A., B.C.L.
    Mounting evidence from many sources, including Pentagon documents, indicates that military interrogators at Guantanamo Bay have used aggressive counter-resistance measures in systematic fashion to pressure detainees to cooperate. These measures have reportedly included sleep deprivation, prolonged isolation, painful body positions, feigned suffocation, and beatings. Other stress-inducing tactics have allegedly included sexual provocation and displays of contempt for Islamic symbols.1 The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and others charge that such tactics constitute cruel and inhuman treatment, even torture. To what extent did interrogators draw on detainees' health information in designing and pursuing such approaches? The Pentagon has persistently...
  • Rescuing the Law of War: A Way Forward in an Era of Global Terrorism

    07/04/2005 4:13:47 AM PDT · by Axhandle · 19 replies · 560+ views
    Parameters ^ | Summer 2005 | MICHAEL H. HOFFMAN
    Terrorists are gaining an astonishing legal edge over US and other armed forces deployed against them. The present trend promises to burden future generations, as well as our own, with an ad hoc, damaging legal framework sure to thwart counterterrorist operations and even furnish inducements for those tempted to join the terrorist ranks. The long-term import of recent trends can’t be overstated. The United States is surely—and not so slowly—bestowing legal status and privileges on members of terrorist organizations that have no precedent in the 3,500-year recorded history of warfare. Terrorists are acquiring legal recognition and support of a kind...