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Thread #67832   Message #1136079
Posted By: Sandra in Sydney
14-Mar-04 - 08:31 AM
Thread Name: BS: Guantanamo survivors
Subject: RE: BS: Guantanamo survivors
A recent 'Vanity Fair' has an interesting article on the camp - including interviews with people working there & with visitors, including at least one psychiatrist who has spoken to prisoners. I think it might have been the Dec or Jan issue - maybe you local library has a copy.

The camp contains a lot of depressed people (surprise!) & the medical team have invented a new diagnosis that the visitor did not agree with.

The interrogaters, all young & inexperienced work with translators & offer bribes (including better accomodation & conditions!) for confessions. The journalist spoke with other interrogaters elsewhere who do not agree that useful information can be obtained that way.

The article is well worth reading, I wish I could remember more about it.

sandra