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their links with such suspects. Various sources have spoken of techniques involving
physical and psychological means of coercion, including stress positions, extreme
temperature changes, sleep deprivation, and “waterboarding” (means by which an
interrogated person is made to feel as if drowning). With reference to the well-established
practice of bodies such as the Human Rights Committee and the Committee against
Torture, the Special Rapporteur concludes that these techniques involve conduct that
amounts to a breach of the prohibition against torture and any form of cruel, inhuman or
degrading treatment.
105. Several of the 28 detainees who, according to Mr. Bradbury, were subjected to “enhanced
techniques to varying degrees” were also “high value detainees”. Fourteen people were
transferred from secret CIA custody in an undisclosed location to confinement at the Defense
Department’s detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, as announced by President Bush on
6 September 2006.173 They were:
• Abu Zubaydah (Palestinian), captured in Faisalabad, Pakistan, on 28 March 2002
• Ramzi bin al-Shibh (Yemeni), captured in Karachi, Pakistan, on 11 September 2002
• Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri (Saudi), captured in the United Arab Emirates in October or
November 2002
• Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (Pakistani), captured in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, on
1 March 2003
• Mustafa al-Hawsawi (Saudi), captured with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in Rawalpindi,
Pakistan, on 1 March 2003
• Majid Khan (Pakistani), captured in Karachi, Pakistan, on 5 March 2003
• Waleed Mohammed bin Attash (Yemeni), also known as Khallad, captured in Karachi,
Pakistan, on 29 April 2003
• Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali (Pakistani) also known as Ammar al-Baluchi, captured with
Waleed bin Attash in Karachi, Pakistan, on 29 April 2003
• Mohammed Farik bin Amin (Malaysian), also known as Zubair, captured in Bangkok
on 8 June 2003
• Riduan Isamuddin (Indonesian), also known as Hambali, also known as Encep
Nuraman, captured in Ayutthaya, Thailand, on 11 August 2003
173
“President Discusses Creation of Military Commissions to Try Suspected Terrorists”,
6 September 2006, http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/
2006/09/20060906-3.html.
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