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Ex-Guantanmo Detainees: We Were Abused by U.S.

HeadlineMay 14, 2004

Two British men who were detained at Guantanamo Bay for more than two years have written to President Bush charging that they had been stripped naked, physically abused and humiliated while detained at the base. The men wrote “From the moment of our arrival in Guantanamo Bay and indeed from long before, we were deliberately humiliated and degraded by the use of methods that we now read U.S. officials denying.” A spokesperson for US Southern Command claimed the men’s allegations were untrue. But last week the Washington Post revealed that in April 2003, the Pentagon OK’d the use of 20 interrogation techniques at Guantanamo including reversing some detainees’ normal sleep patterns, exposing them to heat, cold and “sensory assault,” including loud music and bright lights.

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