The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan: "After some time being held in this position my stump began to hurt so I removed my artificial leg to relieve the pain. Of course my good leg then began to ache and soon started to give way so that I was left hanging with all my weight on my wrists. I shouted for help but at first nobody came. Finally, after about one hour a guard came and my artificial leg was given back to me and I was again placed in the standing position with my hands above my head. After that the interrogators sometimes deliberately removed my artificial leg in order to add extra stress to the position....
By his account, Bin Attash was kept in this position for two weeks—'apart [from] two or three times when I was allowed to lie down.' Though 'the methods used were specifically designed not to leave marks,' the cuffs eventually 'cut into my wrists and made wounds. When this happened the doctor would be called.' At a second location, where Bin Attash was again stripped naked and placed 'in a standing position with my arms above my head and fixed with handcuffs and a chain to a metal ring in the ceiling,' a doctor examined his lower leg every day—'using a tape measure for signs of swelling.'"
As repulsive as this is, it would be better journalism to know more about Bin Attash. Maybe he and Chaney ought to be uibn a cell together. THAT would be real torture.
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