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Title: Inside the CIA's Black Sites
Post by: Scriblerus the Philosophe on December 16, 2007, 12:25:51 AM
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/12/14/bashmilah/print.html?source=whitelist
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The CIA held Mohamed Farag Ahmad Bashmilah in several different cells when he was incarcerated in its network of secret prisons known as "black sites." But the small cells were all pretty similar, maybe 7 feet wide and 10 feet long. He was sometimes naked, and sometimes handcuffed for weeks at a time. In one cell his ankle was chained to a bolt in the floor. There was a small toilet. In another cell there was just a bucket. Video cameras recorded his every move. The lights always stayed on -- there was no day or night. A speaker blasted him with continuous white noise, or rap music, 24 hours a day.

The guards wore black masks and black clothes. They would not utter a word as they extracted Bashmilah from his cell for interrogation -- one of his few interactions with other human beings during his entire 19 months of imprisonment. Nobody told him where he was, or if he would ever be freed.

Need I say more?
Title: Re: Inside the CIA's Black Sites
Post by: Sibling Chatty on December 16, 2007, 12:31:15 AM
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