• as the "torture manuals". These manuals were prepared by the U.S. military and used between 1987 and 1991 for intelligence training courses at the U.S...
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  • Peru. The manuals advise that torture techniques can backfire and that the threat of pain is often more effective than pain itself. The manuals describe...
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    Field Manuals, Technical Manuals, and Weapon Manuals. The Library of Congress maintains a list of every Field Manual published between the 1940s to the 1970s...
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    detainees in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, including physical abuse, sexual humiliation, physical and psychological torture, and rape, as well as the killing...
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    former instructor at the school, "the author of SOA and CIA torture manuals [...] drew from intelligence materials used during the Vietnam War that advocated...
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    Interrogational torture is the use of torture to obtain information in interrogation, as opposed to the use of torture to extract a forced confession,...
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    Manuals of Coercive Techniques (Physical Torture and Psychological Torture) and Non-coercive (Psychological Torture) Interrogation Techniques in the Public...
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  • extended to the use of torture (see U.S. Army and CIA interrogation manuals). The manuals were also distributed by Special Forces Mobile Training teams to...
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    at the Wayback Machine, 2005 Technological Invention and Diffusion of Torture Equipment The Strange Case of Electric Torture Instruments in the Early...
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    functionality as a torture device is to be variously inserted into the mouth, rectum, or vagina, and then expanded to gag or mutilate the victim; its historical...
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  • journalists, human rights activists and others in the 1980s." Death squad The Torture Manuals Torture Honduras John Negroponte Honduras portal "Honduras:...
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    Water cure is a form of torture in which the victim is forced to drink large quantities of water in a short time, resulting in gastric distension, water...
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  • Upon Entry (category Films about immigration to the United States)
    ScreenDaily considered that the film "plays out in that grey zone where legitimate questioning ends and the state torture manual begins", pointing out how...
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    Training Manual-1983" as well as intelligence manuals used at the School of the Americas. The Project X counterinsurgency manuals were "a guide for the conduct...
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  • the original on 2023-10-14. Retrieved 2023-10-14. "Israeli Army Chief Says Goal to Enter Gaza and Cripple Hamas; Herzog Reveals Hamas 'Torture Manual'"...
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    Intelligence (SSCI) about the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)'s Detention and Interrogation Program and its use of torture during interrogation in U...
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  • Resistance to interrogation (category Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse)
    to prepare them, after capture by the enemy, to resist interrogation techniques such as humiliation and torture. The trainees undergo practices such as...
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  • resist." While the US manuals contained coercive measures, they did not rise to the level of what is generally defined as torture. Torture, however, has...
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  • Nutrient enema (category Torture in the United States)
    PMC 1987791. PMID 21032242. "War Department Technical Manual Hospital Diets" (PDF). Technical Manuals. United States Department of War. October 13, 1941...
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  • systematic torture of detainees by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and various components of the U.S. Armed...
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  • real-life fight clubs?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-12-22. Is there a torture manual?. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2015-12-22. How could a cat scuba dive?....
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    testimonies of abuse and torture of prisoners. Bush's successor, U.S. President Barack Obama, promised that he would close the camp in 2010, but met strong...
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    included torture. Extraordinary rendition continued under the Obama administration, with targets being interrogated and subsequently taken to the U.S. for...
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  • Istanbul Protocol (category Anti-torture laws)
    The Manual on Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, commonly known as the...
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  • describing the trauma as comparable to being run over by a bus. Seven soldiers were charged in 2005. The alleged torture and homicides took place at the military...
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    Waterboarding (category Torture during the Algerian War)
    is a form of torture in which water is poured over a cloth covering the face and breathing passages of an immobilized captive, causing the person to experience...
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    abuse or torture. The manual was found in a computer file described as "the military series" related to the "Declaration of Jihad." According to the United...
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  • In Death (category Novels set in the 21st century)
    The ...in Death series of novels and novellas is written by Nora Roberts under her pseudonym J. D. Robb. Set in a mid-21st-century New York City, they...
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  • CIA activities in Honduras (category CIA activities in the Americas)
    training manuals and the School of the Americas, now renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC). Caballero described the CIA...
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    Colombia–United States relations (category Bilateral relations of the United States)
    years of denials the U.S. Pentagon declassified translated excerpts from seven training manuals. These manuals were prepared by the U.S. military and...
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