“According to a DOD [Department of Defense] interrogation log which has been made public, [starting in November 2002] [alleged 20th hijacker Mohammed] Al-Qahtani had been subjected to 160 days of isolation in a pen perpetually flooded with artificial light. He was interrogated on 48 of 54 days, for 18 to 20 hours at a stretch. He was stripped naked; straddled by taunting female guards, in an exercise called ‘invasion of space by a female;’ forced to wear women’s underwear on his head and to put on a bra; threatened by dogs; placed on a leash; and told that his mother was a whore. Al-Qahtani was also subjected to a phony kidnapping, deprived of heat, given large quantities of intravenous liquids without access to a toilet, deprived of sleep, and forced to undergo an enema. At one point, Al-Qahtani’s heart rate had dropped so precipitately, to 35 beats a minute, that he required cardiac monitoring.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]
– M. Cherif Bassiouni, The Institutionalization of Torture by the Bush Administration, Page 60