Friday, 11. June 2004
Topic: Terror - on June 11, 2004 at 12:05:00 PM CEST
Rumsfeld okayed torture methods: Report
Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had approved various methods of interrogating terror suspects, in a memo under which US military personnel at Guantanamo Bay could put prisoners in "stress positions" for four hours, hood them and subject them to 20-hour-long interrogations.
The approval, first in December 2002 and later in a January 8, 2003 memo, allowed for inflicting "fear of dogs", and "mild non-injurious physical contact", The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
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