http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5740136&cKey=1114922112000NEW YORK, May l (Reuters) - A high-level U.S. military investigation into accusations of detainee abuse at Guantanamo Bay has concluded that several prisoners were mistreated or humiliated, The New York Times reported in Sunday editions.
Citing senior military and Pentagon officials, the Times said a report, still a few weeks away from being completed and released, had found that prisoners were abused, perhaps illegally, as a result of efforts to devise innovative methods to gain information.
The report is partly based on accounts by FBI agents who complained after witnessing detainees subjected to several forms of harsh treatment, the Times said.
The agents wrote in memorandums that were never meant to be disclosed publicly that they had seen female interrogators squeeze male prisoners' genitals, and that they had witnessed other detainees stripped and shackled low to the floor for hours at a time, the newspaper reported.
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