Appeals two psychologists devised by a survivor who was tortured by CIA "human destruction"

ByOpenDemocracy

Tanzanian fishermen who actually survived receiving inhuman torture that was pointed out to the suspects of terrorism are appealing to the two psychologists who came up with this torture .

Out of the Darkness | American Civil Liberties Union
https://www.aclu.org/feature/out-darkness

Detainees sue psychologists who engineered, profited from CIA torture | Ars Technica
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/10/detainees-sue-psychologists-who-engineered-profited-from-cia-torture/

Three people, including Mr. Suleiman, Abdullah Salem, fisherman of Tanzania are suing the complaint. Mr. Suleiman was abducted by a CIA agent at Somali's capital Mogadishio on March 15, 2003 two weeks after marriage.

First of all, it was brought to Kenya, from there to Djibouti via the Air Force Base in Bossasso, Puntland. And it was sent from Djibouti to a CIA prison called "cobalt" in Afghanistan.


In this "cobalt", Mr. Suleiman continued to be tortured for approximately 5 weeks from March 26 to May 2003. Torture was aimed at psychologist James Mitchell and John Bruce Jessen, invented by "John Bruce Jessen" to "take prisoners into obedience and extract information", and in developing this torture technique the two companies are 81 million I have received a dollar (about 9.7 billion yen).

First of all, everything was black, everything Mr. Suleiman entered, as Mr. Suleiman expressed as "darkness". Torture is trying to destroy Mr. Suleiman physically and mentally, and it is bathed in ice water, hit by a wall, hung at a height barely topped with a metal stick He said he was beaten. Abusers who continued to torture for 5 weeks evaluated that Mr. Suleiman was mentally "destroyed" and no longer has the ability to resist.

Mr. Suleiman had taken in painkillers at this time and tried to commit suicide by drinking it all at once, but she seems to have been blocked by security guards flying at the moment when I started taking medicine.

After about five weeks of torture at "cobalt" Mr. Suleiman was transported to Salt Pit prison. This was also the secret prison of the CIA, inhumane interrogation spread. As a work depicting torture in this salt pit prison, French comic "Salt pit"there is.

In Salt Pit, Mr. Suleiman, who was detained for 1 year and 2 months, was delivered to the US Army in Bugram in July 2004 and released as "No Liaison" on August 17, 2008. In the meantime, Mr. Suleiman's information naturally did not reach the family, so it seems that it was thought that it was dead. Although I searched many times after liberation, my wife Majida was not found.

Dolor Laden of the American Association for Freedom of Human Rights (ACLU) said: "The two psychologists have developed and managed torture that will lower the status as a human being, destroying the physical body and spirit, which is too cruel It is an immoral thing and it has broken the forbiddance of human experiments since the end of the Second World War. "

Mr. Suleiman still has torture flashback. Right now, I am not trying to hurt a person, but I am learning how to face with the help of a psychologist trying to help. Meanwhile, "I must not forgive the horrors that these two people brought, no matter how many people."

The basis of such torture was born right after the terrorism that occurred on 11th September 2001 and on September 17th President Bush signed an order to allow the CIA to capture and detain al Qaeda members. At this point, the CIA seems to have no "interrogation" technology that had been held during the Cold War period, and research was to be promoted. Mitchell and Jessen were there.

However, the two had no experience of what exact interrogation was, furthermore they did not have expertise in al-Qaeda, terrorism background, region, culture and language. Still, in December 2001, CIA asked Mitchell and Jessen a survey of the "Chester Manual" versus the interrogation manual created by Al Qaeda. In order to overcome the resistance method described in this manual,Learning incompetence feelingTo break down the hearts of prisoners of war and to create technology to extract information.

It was considered to be an al Qaeda executiveAbu ZubaydahHe was "destroyed" in response to the "torture" invented by Mitchell and Jessen, such as being robbed of a large acoustic rock in a solitary cell painted white and deprived of sleep. Even now Zubaydah is detained by Guantanamo, but damage to the center of the brain is great, besides being suffering from headaches and seizures, he seems to be in a state where he can not remember his father's name or his date of birth.

This torture afflicted by Suleiman et al. Was ordered by President Obama to end in 2009. However, there are still people who are suffering from aftereffects in the world.