Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Secret Report Reveals Participation of Medical Professionals in Torture at CIA Black Sites

www.alternet.org
April 6, 2009.

The report describes "three principal roles" played by medical professionals, including "monitoring the ongoing ill-treatment" of prisoners.

Medical professionals working for the CIA played a central role in the "ill-treatment" of terror suspects in U.S. custody overseas, according to a previously confidential report by the International Committee of the Red Cross. The 2007 report describes interviews with 14 "high value detainees" who were transferred to Guantanamo Bay in September 2006, revealing the full extent of complicity and participation by medical personnel in a wide and grisly range of torture methods inflicted upon them. Listed in the table of contents of the 41-page report, these methods included "suffocation by water," "prolonged stress standing," "beatings by use of a collar," "beating and kicking," "confinement in a box," "prolonged nudity," and more.

The ICRC report describes "three principal roles" played by medical professionals in the torture of prisoners in U.S. custody. "Firstly, there was a direct role in monitoring the ongoing ill-treatment which, in some instances, involved the health personnel directly participating while certain methods were used."

Secondly, there was a role in performing a medical check just prior to, and just after,each transfer. Finally, there was the provision of healthcare, to treat both the direct consequences of ill-treatment detailed in previous sections, and to treat any natural ailments that arose during the prolonged periods of detention.

According to the report, which was obtained by journalist Mark Danner -- who first published excerpts last month and has now published its full contents on the website of the New York Review of Books -- certain methods required more active participation by medical professions. For example, in subjecting prisoners to "suffocation by water," "it was alleged that health personnel actively monitored a detainee's oxygen saturation using what, from the description of the detainee of a device placed over the finger, appeared to be a pulse oxymeter." ...

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1 comment:

Unknown said...

See my SOUTH DAKOTA BOARD OF MEDICAL AND OSTEOPATHIC EXAMINERS COMPLAINT naming two Sioux Falls, SD, medical doctors named DR CHAD CARDA and JENNIFER BURGER.

The complaint mentions the fact that I sought a course of care to remove the RFID MIND CONTROL CHIP illegally and involuntarily implanted in my nasopharyngial cavity near the ocular bone.

The first set of x rays showed the chip. Doctors did not show me those x rays, but sought another set with another x ray tech/

The second set were put on the screen, where I viewed the milled piece of metal (The mind control chip).

The doctors then falsely reported five other x rays that did not look like my head?

Doctors blew smoke up my ass while committing malpractise?

Sincerely, THOMAS S. BEAN