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Waterboarding can cause extreme pain, damage to lungs, brain damage from oxygen deprivation, other physical injuries including broken bones due to struggling against restraints, and lasting psychological damage. [ 6 ] Adverse physical effects can last for months, and psychological effects for years. [ 7 ]
Chinese water torture or a "dripping machine" [1] is a mentally painful process which cold water is slowly dripped onto the scalp, forehead or face for a prolonged period of time. [1] The process causes fear and mental deterioration on the subject. The pattern of the drops is often irregular, and the cold sensation is jarring, which causes ...
Chinese water torture or a "dripping machine" [17] is a mentally painful process which cold water is slowly dripped onto the scalp, forehead or face for a prolonged period of time. [17] The process causes fear and mental deterioration on the subject. The pattern of the drops is often irregular, and the cold sensation is jarring, which causes ...
The United States had to admit it had gotten it wrong – after six years of torture
The report stated that: "Research and medical experimentation on detainees was used to measure the effects of large-volume waterboarding and adjust the procedure according to the results." As a result of the waterboarding experiments, doctors recommended adding saline to the water "to prevent putting detainees in a coma or killing them through ...
Managed by. United States Navy. The Guantanamo Bay detention camp[ note 1 ] is a United States military prison within Naval Station Guantanamo Bay (NSGB), also called GTMO (pronounced Gitmo /ˈɡɪtmoʊ/ GIT-moh) on the coast of Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. It was established in January 2002 by U.S. President George W. Bush to hold terrorism suspects ...
The Coney Island waterboarding thrill ride was a work in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York City conceived by conceptual artist Steve Powers in mid-2008. [1] [2] [3] As originally conceived, Powers saw the public watching volunteers undergoing actual waterboarding. [1] The Washington Post reported that on August 17, 2008, Powers brought in Mike ...
Comment: If members of the Bush Administration are to be discredited due to their alleged political bias, then Jimmy Carter, a Democrat and one of the administration's most strident critics long before the waterboarding debate began, should also be discredited due to political bias. 209.221.240.193 21:34, 28 December 2007 (UTC)