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Torture

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  1. October 27-November 2001: Zammar Arrested in Morocco
  2. Late November, 2001: US Soldiers Permit Massacre of Taliban
  3. November 2002: CIA Team Arrives in Milan for Abduction of Radical Cleric
  4. November 2002: CIA Begins Interrogation Course
  5. November 2002: CIA Approves Four Standard Interrogation Techniques
  6. November 2002: Military Legal Experts Cite Concerns with ‘Enhanced Interrogation Methods’ Based on SERE Training
  7. (November 2002): Detained Al-Qaeda Leader Transferred from United Arab Emirates to Salt Pit Prison
  8. (Mid-Late November 2002): Detained Al-Qaeda Leader Transferred from Salt Pit Prison to Black Site in Thailand
  9. Late November 2002: British Intelligence Told CIA Is Going to Rendition Two British Citizens It Knows Are Innocent, but Fails to Help Them
  10. November 2002: Detainee Later Found Dead Is Uncooperative in Custody
  11. November 2002: CIA Officer in Charge of Salt Pit Black Site Requests Guidance on Handling Detainees, Requests Are Ignored
  12. November 2003: Former Detainee Releases Statement Denying Al-Qaeda Links
  13. November 2004: Formica Report Finds No Evidence of Torture, Abuse at Baghdad Detention Facility
  14. November 5- December, 2002: Remote Strike in Yemen Raises Legal and Ethical Issues
  15. Between November 2005 and September 2006: Al-Qaeda Leader Al-Libi Secretly Transferred to Libya to Avoid Questions about Torture and False Confessions
  16. November 2005: Station Chief Asks for Permission to Destroy CIA Tapes
  17. November 2005: CIA Destroys Videotapes of Detainees’ Interrogations without Advance Notification
  18. November 2005: Top Captured Militants in Secret CIA Prisons Moved From Poland to Mauritania
  19. Early October 2002: Al-Qaeda Leader Al-Nashiri Arrested in UAE
  20. Shortly After Early October 2002: Al-Qaeda Leader Al-Nashiri Is Waterboarded in Secret CIA Prison
  21. (June-November 1989): US Considers Rendition Operation against Lockerbie Bombers, If Found
  22. (November-December 1999): Al-Zawahiri’s Brother Rendered to Egypt
  23. December 2001-January 2002: US Military Vessels Used to House Suspected Terrorists
  24. December 2001: Pentagon Asks Military Agency for Help in Developing Torture Techniques; Methods Originated with Chinese during Korean War
  25. December 2001 and After: Jordanian Seized by Iranians, Transferred to US Custody, Tortured
  26. December 2002: Interrogators Blow Smoke in Detainee’s Face
  27. December 2002: Detainee Left in Cold Room, Shackled and Naked
  28. (December 2002): ’Potentially Injurious’ Stress Positions Used on Al-Qaeda Leader
  29. Late December 2003 - May 2004: Hussein Gives Wealth of Information in Long Interrogations with FBI Agent; No Harsh Tactics Used
  30. December 2003: CIA Reduces Time Limit on Standard Technique of Sleep Deprivation
  31. December 2003: Army Fails to Investigate Claim of Detainee Abuse
  32. December 2003: Teen Detainee Attempts Suicide
  33. After November 2005: CIA Officer Never Punished for Allegedly Destroying Vital Evidence Without Authorization
  34. December 2006: Study Finds that US Interrogators ‘Made Up’ Harsh Interrogation Tactics ‘On the Fly’
  35. December 2008: Five Algerians Released from Guantanamo, Tell of Beatings, Sleep Deprivation, Force-Feeding
  36. 1631: Jesuit Opponent of Torture: ‘Whatever the Torturers Want to Be True, Is True’
  37. 1800 and After: Waterboarding Banned by European Governments
  38. 1902: Future President Defends Waterboarding
  39. 1947: Victim of Japanese Waterboarding Relates Story to US War Crimes Tribunal
  40. 1947: Japanese Soldier Who Waterboarded US Civilian Convicted of War Crime
  41. 1957: Air Force Sociologist: Torture Techniques Successfully ‘Brainwashed’ Prisoners
  42. 1960: Novel Features ‘Ticking Time Bomb’ Scenario
  43. 1983: Texas Sheriff, Deputies Convicted of Waterboarding Prisoners
  44. 2002-2005: Detainee Claims He is Drugged into Confessing Terrorist Ties
  45. 2002-2003: Chertoff Advises CIA Can Use Waterboarding and ‘False Flag’ Trickery on Detainees
  46. Early 2002: FBI Interrogator Trains Guantanamo Interrogators in Non-Coercive Methods; Military Intelligence Officers Resistant
  47. 2003: Justice Department Advises CIA Not to Destroy Interrogation Videotapes
  48. 2004: Iraqi Prisoner Apparently Murdered While in US Custody
  49. 2006: Senior Pentagon Investigator Worries that SERE Techniques Used as Basis for Interrogations at Guantanamo
  50. 1952: US Supreme Court Reaffirms Doctrine Underlying Rendition