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Article: Fed: Hicks being tortured at Guantanamo Bay - US expert
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- AAP General News (Australia)
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- June 13, 2006
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AAP General News (Australia)
06-13-2006
Fed: Hicks being tortured at Guantanamo Bay - US expert
CANBERRA, June 13 AAP - Australian terrorist suspect David Hicks has suffered untold
psychological damage at Guantanamo Bay, which may take the rest of his life to get over,
a US security expert says.
Three recent suicides at Guantanamo Bay have intensified calls for the military prison
to be closed.
Alfred McCoy, an expert on torture techniques by he US Central Intelligence Agency,
said Guantanamo Bay was not a conventional military prison.
"It's an ad hoc laboratory for the perfection of CIA psychological torture," he told ABC TV.
"It's designed to break down every detainee confined ...