An FBI agent watched Australian detainee Mamdouh Habib repeatedly vomit during a marathon interrogation session at Guantanamo Bay in 2004, according to a long-awaited US Justice Department report. The agent said Mr Habib, a former Sydney taxi driver held at the US military prison at Guantanamo for more than two years, endured two 15-hour interrogation sessions with only a short break in between. Details about Habib’s confinement at Guantanamo, including an alleged assault inflicted by an interrogator with Lockheed Martin, were included in the 370-page report that took the Department of Justice more than three years to compile. More than 1000 FBI employees who served at Guantanamo and in Afghanistan and Iraq after 9/11 attacks were surveyed. Of the more than 450 FBI agents who served at Guantanamo, the report found almost half “observed or heard about various rough or aggressive treatments of detainees, primarily by military interrogators.” The abuses included sleep deprivation or disruption, prolonged shackling, stress positions, isolation and the use of bright lights and loud music. Other abuse allegations include the use of snakes, dogs and pornography on detainees.
ABUSES IN GUANTANAMO INTERROGATION
An FBI agent watched Australian detainee Mamdouh Habib repeatedly vomit during a marathon interrogation session at Guantanamo Bay in 2004, according to a long-awaited US Justice Department report. The agent said Mr Habib, a former Sydney taxi driver held at the US military prison at Guantanamo for more than two years, endured two 15-hour
