Rape threats used to scare detainees into confessing, Khadr hearing told

Source: Globe and Mail

Terrifying threats of dying from multiple gang rape ``by four big black guys’’ who would catch little Afghan boys in the shower of a U.S. prison, was used by interrogators at Bagram to scare detainees into confessing, Omar Khadr’s lead interrogator admitted today.

`It was a factious story that we made up’’ because we knew ``Afghans were terrified of rape,’’ the interrogator said.

The story sometimes involve hulking ‘’neo Nazis,’’ sometimes ``big black guys’’ but we told detainees that even through they were inmates there were still ``patriots who were upset and and mad over the 9-11 attacks.’’ The story sometimes ended with the Afghan boy dying from repeated penetrations from gang rape, Interrogator 1 said.

It also emerged that war crimes prosecutors offered the testifying former interrogator - who was later convicted of beating and assaulting detainees at Bagram - an immunity deal although it wasn’t established in court if the deal was for testimony against Omar Khadr.

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Earlier, another military interrogator nicknamed Monster said he felt sorry for the Canadian teenager and occasionally brought him books and treats. He said Mr. Khadr, was - like other detainees - routinely trussed up in a cage “in one of the worst places on Earth.”

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