From The Observer, 5/16/04:
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/waronterrorism/story/0,1373,1218014,00.html
US guards 'filmed beatings' at terror camp
Senator urges action as Briton reveals Guantanamo abuse
David Rose and Gaby Hinsliff
Sunday May 16, 2004
The Observer
Dozens of videotapes of American guards allegedly engaged in brutal
attacks on Guantanamo Bay detainees have been stored and catalogued at
the camp, an investigation by The Observer has revealed.
The disclosures, made in an interview with Tarek Dergoul, the fifth
British prisoner freed last March, who has been too traumatised to
speak until now, prompted demands last night by senior politicians on
both sides of the Atlantic to make the videos available immediately.
They say that if the contents are as shocking as Dergoul claims, they
will provide final proof that brutality against detainees has become
an institutionalised feature of America's war on terror.
In the wake of the furore over the abuses photographed at Abu Ghraib
jail in Iraq, US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has continued to
insist they were the work of a few rogue soldiers, and not a systemic
problem.
The disclosures come as the top American commander in Iraq,
Lieutenant-General Ricardo Sanchez, announced he has barred all
coercive interrogation practices, including forcing prisoners into
stress positions for long periods and disrupting their sleep, except
in very rare circumstances.
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