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CIA Threatened to Kill, Rape Detainee Families: Report

By the Associated Press

Posted Aug 24, 2009 2:33 PM CDT
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(AP) – A newly declassified CIA report says interrogators threatened to kill the children of a Sept. 11 suspect. The document, released today by the Justice Department, says one interrogator said a colleague had told Khalid Sheikh Mohammed that if any other attacks happened in the United States, "We're going to kill your children."

Another interrogator allegedly tried to convince a different terror suspect detainee that his mother would be sexually assaulted in front of him—though the interrogator in question denied making such a threat. The report, written in 2004, examined CIA treatment of terror detainees following the Sept. 11 attacks. It has been declassified as part of a lawsuit brought by the ACLU.

A 1971 close up of the seal of the US Central Intelligence Agency.
A 1971 close up of the seal of the US Central Intelligence Agency.   (AP Photo)
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is seen shortly after his capture during a raid in Pakistan.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is seen shortly after his capture during a raid in Pakistan.   (AP Photo)
A US flag hangs above the sign marking the Camp Justice compound, the site of the U.S. war crimes tribunal on Guantanamo Bay.
A US flag hangs above the sign marking the Camp Justice compound, the site of the U.S. war crimes tribunal on Guantanamo Bay.   (AP Photo)
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riffran
Aug 25, 2009 10:23 AM CDT
The CIA only threatened to do bad things.....THEY did them...remember Daniel Pearl, remember our soldiers getting drug down the streets and tortured and left in a ditch, the Saddam torture rooms, the ritual rape his sick fu** sons were brought up doing, Chemical Ali.....ect..by the way Mustard gas killing the 5000 kurds was "not" a WMD????? ha
paul123
Aug 25, 2009 8:44 AM CDT
only a -12 reader, sorry.
skeptik
Aug 25, 2009 3:52 AM CDT
Would that be the wmds that Ronald Regan sold to His good ally Saddam Hussein, or some they managed to produce on their own?

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