US embassy warns of anti-American violence in Pakistan
Warning issued after release of US Senate report revealing brutal interrogation techniques used by CIA
The US embassy in Pakistan on Wednesday issued a warning of “potential anti-American protests and violence” after the release of a Senate report that revealed CIA’s brutal interrogation techniques on terror suspects, Associated Press reported.
Embassies in Afghanistan and Thailand also issued similar warnings, and all three countries have received notices which said, “the release of declassified versions of the executive summary, findings, and conclusions of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence's study on the CIA's rendition, detention and interrogation program could prompt anti-US protests and violence against US interests, including private US citizens.”
Interestingly, prisoners were interrogated in both Afghanistan and Thailand which were hosts to two secret facilities.
The report is the most extensive detailing of the CIA’s brutal interrogation of al Qaeda suspects yet.
Senate Intelligence Committee chair Senator Dianne Feinstein said at least 119 individuals were subjected to “coercive interrogation techniques, in some cases amounting to torture.”
The detainees were rounded up by US operatives beginning in 2001 after al Qaeda destroyed the World Trade Center in New York and damaged the Pentagon and through to 2009.
They were interrogated either at CIA-run secret prisons in allied nations or at the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Embassies in Afghanistan and Thailand also issued similar warnings, and all three countries have received notices which said, “the release of declassified versions of the executive summary, findings, and conclusions of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence's study on the CIA's rendition, detention and interrogation program could prompt anti-US protests and violence against US interests, including private US citizens.”
Interestingly, prisoners were interrogated in both Afghanistan and Thailand which were hosts to two secret facilities.
The report is the most extensive detailing of the CIA’s brutal interrogation of al Qaeda suspects yet.
Senate Intelligence Committee chair Senator Dianne Feinstein said at least 119 individuals were subjected to “coercive interrogation techniques, in some cases amounting to torture.”
The detainees were rounded up by US operatives beginning in 2001 after al Qaeda destroyed the World Trade Center in New York and damaged the Pentagon and through to 2009.
They were interrogated either at CIA-run secret prisons in allied nations or at the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.