Periscope
Newsweek, January, 2005
U.S. Affairs: 'Salvador Option'
The U.S. Army may have closed the books on Spc. Charles Graner, the alleged chief torturer at Abu Ghraib who was convicted last Friday. But a new Red Cross report concludes that abusive practices were still occurring last fall at Guantanamo Bay, well after Graner was charged, NEWSWEEK has learned. The confidential report, delivered to U.S. officials last month, is based on a Red Cross visit to Gitmo in September. Despite some improvements--like the tribunals mandated for prisoners by the U.S. Supreme Court--the report reaffirms a previous finding from June that practices at Gitmo were "tantamount to torture," according to sources who have seen it. (The Red Cross declined to comment on the report.) The latest Red Cross visit occurred a...
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