The summary said they "forced into asphyxiations numerous detainees in an attempt to obtain information."

INTERNATIONAL outrage erupted with the circulation of photographs of American soldiers laughing as they forced naked Iraqi detainees into humiliating positions.

"The wires part," she said, was her idea, but she said Specialist Graner and Staff Sgt. Ivan Frederick II had forced detainees to stand on a box to stay awake, and did so at the request of military intelligence officials.

Forcing detainees to urinate on themselves as a result of deprivation of toilets was most common in Al Adliya (CID) and Asri prisons.

During the first year after Operation Anvil, colonial authorities had little success in forcing detainees to cooperate.

As a doctor who cares for victims of torture, I believe that many of the methods described in your article, including forcing detainees to stand or kneel in uncomfortable positions in extreme cold or heat, or prolonged sleep deprivation, constitute torture.

A10 The American officer who was in charge of interrogations at Abu Ghraib prison told a senior Army investigator that intelligence officers sometimes instructed military police to force Iraqi detainees to strip naked and shackle them before they were questioned.