FBI report details mistreatment at Gitmo

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- FBI employees saw brutality by guards at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo, including detainees chained for 18 hours or more, a report out Tuesday says.

The report was posted on the FBI Web site. The agency said in a survey of 493 employees it had found 26 who said they had seen incidents of mistreatment and several more that were "not purely negative." An investigation determined that no FBI personnel were involved in aggressive interrogations and mistreatment.

FBI witnesses described inmates chained in a fetal position and forced to urinate and defecate on themselves, the use of dogs to terrorize prisoners and sleep deprivation techniques including playing loud heavy metal music for as long as 24 hours. There were also instances of female guards harassing prisoners -- in one case wiping menstrual blood on an inmate -- and of a guard squatting on a Koran.

In the introduction, the FBI said that most of the material made public in the report has already come out during litigation over the facility at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo, Cuba.

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