[Infowarrior] - ICRC report on Guantanamo medical officers

[Richard Forno]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/06/AR2009040603654.html?hpid=topnews

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Medical officers who oversaw interrogations of terrorism suspects in  
CIA secret prisons committed gross violations of medical ethics and in  
some cases essentially participated in torture, the International  
Committee of the Red Cross concluded in a confidential report that  
labeled the CIA program "inhuman."

Health personnel offered supervision and even assistance as suspected  
al-Qaeda operatives were beaten, deprived of food, exposed to  
temperature extremes and subjected to waterboarding, the relief agency  
said in the 2007 report, a copy of which was posted on a magazine Web  
site yesterday. The report quoted one medical official as telling a  
detainee: "I look after your body only because we need you for  
information."

New details about alleged CIA interrogation practices were contained  
in the 43-page volume written by ICRC officials who were given  
unprecedented access to the CIA's "high-value detainees" in late 2006.  
While excerpts of the report were leaked previously, the entire  
document was made public for the first time by author Mark Danner, a  
journalism professor, on the Web site of the New York Review of Books.

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The report can be accessed at http://www.nybooks.com/icrc-report.pdf.