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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (24047)	6/24/2005 6:32:40 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (1) of 361716

Guantanamo doctors under attack By Matthew Davis BBC News, Washington Prisoner in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba There is concern about the possible violation of medical ethics The US military has defended the role of doctors in refining the coercive interrogation tactics being used on prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. The Pentagon said no inquiry had produced "credible evidence" physicians had taken part in the "inhumane treatment of detainees". But it admitted "behavioural science consultants" were helping interrogators exploit prisoners' weaknesses. The news comes amid fresh concern over possible violations of medical ethics. Authors of a report in the New England Journal of Medicine say that since late 2002, psychiatrists and psychologists have been part of a programme designed to increase fear and distress among prisoners as a means to getting intelligence. Behaviour science consultants may observe, but not conduct or direct, interrogations Bryan Whitman Pentagon spokesman They say there are "strong indications" that Behavioural Science Consultation Teams - known as "biscuit" teams - have had access to detainees' personal health information. "Wholesale rejection of clinical confidentiality at Guantanamo also runs contrary to settled ethical precepts," their report notes. Meanwhile, a report in the New York Times quoted former interrogators saying they had received specific guidance on how to increase prisoners' stress levels. In one example, interrogators were told that a detainee's medical files showed he had a severe phobia of the dark and suggested ways that could be manipulated to induce him to co-operate, the newspaper reported. news.bbc.co.uk

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