intelligence.senate.gov/study2014/sscistudy1.pdf pp 40-42 From August 4, 2002, through August 23, 2002, the CIA subjected Abu Zubaydah to its enhanced interrogation techniques on a near 24-hour-per-day basis. After Abu Zubaydah had been in complete isolation for 47 days, the most aggressive interrogation phase began at approximately 11:50 AM on August 4, 2002. Security personnel entered the cell, shackled and hooded Abu Zubaydah, and removed his towel (Abu Zubaydah was then naked). Without asking any questions, the interrogators placed a rolled towel around his neck as a collar, and backed him up into the cell wall (an interrogator later acknowledged the collar was used to slam Abu Zubaydah against a concrete wall). The interrogators then removed the hood, performed an attention grab, and had Abu Zubaydah watch while a large confinement box was brought into the cell and laid on the floor. A cable states Abu Zubaydah was unhooded and the large confinement box was carried into the interrogation room and paced [sic] on the floor so as to appear as a coffin. The interrogators then demanded detailed and verifiable information on terrorist operations planned against the United States, including the names, phone numbers, email addresses, weapon caches, and safe houses of anyone involved. CIA records describe Abu Zubaydah as appearing apprehensive. Each time Abu Zubaydah denied having additional information, the interrogators would perform a facial slap or face grab. At approximately 6:20 PM, Abu Zubaydah was waterboarded for the first time. Over a two-and-a-half-hour period, Abu Zubaydah coughed, vomited, and had involuntary spasms of the torso and extremities during waterboarding. Detention site personnel noted that throughout the process [Abu Zubaydah] was asked and given the opportunity to respond to questions about threats to the United States, but Abu Zubaydah continued to maintain that he did not have any additional information to provide. In an email to OMS leadership entitled, So it begins, a medical officer wrote: The sessions accelerated rapidly progressing quickly to the water board after large box, walling, and small box periods. [Abu Zubaydali] seems very resistant to the water board. Longest time with the cloth over his face so far has been 17 seconds. This is sure to increase shortly. NO useful information so far.... He did vomit a couple of times during the water board with some beans and rice. Its been 10 hours since he ate so this is surprising and disturbing. We plan to only feed Ensure for a while now. Im head[ing] back for another water board session. The use of the CIAs enhancedinterrogation techniques—including walling, attention grasps, slapping, facial hold, stress positions, cramped confinement, white noise and sleep deprivation—continued in varying combinations, 24 hours a day for 17 straight days, through August 20, 2002 When Abu Zubaydah was left alone during this period, he was placed in a stress position, left on the waterboard with a cloth over his face, or locked in one of two confinement boxes. According to the cables, Abu Zubaydah was also subjected to the waterboard 2-4 times a day...with multiple iterations of the watering cycle during each application. The aggressive phase of interrogation continued until August 23, 2002. Over the course of the entire 20 day aggressive phase of interrogation, Abu Zubaydah spent a total of 266 hours (11 days, 2 hours) in the large (coffin size) confinement box and 29 hours in a small confinement box, which had a width of 21 inches, a depth of 2.5 feet, and a height of 2.5 feet. The CIA interrogators told Abu Zubaydah that the only way he would leave the facility was in the coffin-shaped confinement box. According to the daily cables from DETENTION SITE GREEN, Abu Zubaydah frequently cried, begged, pleaded, and whimpered, but continued to deny that he had any additional information on current threats to, or operatives in, the United States.
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