CIA report: Detainees threatened with family rape

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CIA report: Detainees threatened with family rape

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Newly published documents reveal even newer harsh techniques used against terror suspects in CIA-run prisons during former president George Bush's administration.

A newly declassified report released on Monday by the US Justice Department says CIA interrogators told terror suspect Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri that his mother would be raped before his eyes if he refused to talk.

The inquisitors also told alleged terror suspect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his children would be killed, if the US were attacked again.

In another instance, Nashiri was shown a gun and frightened into thinking he would be shot. He was also threatened with a power drill held near him and repeatedly turned on and off.

Captured in 2002 over the USS Cole bombing two years earlier, Nashiri was held four years in a secret CIA prison and became one of three leading suspects to later suffer waterboarding.

The report on CIA interrogation methods, written in 2004 by the agency's then inspector-general John Helgerson, was kept secret until Monday, when it was released as part of a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union.

The revelations propelled the US Attorney General Eric Holder to appoint a special prosecutor, John Durham, to investigate allegations of abuse of terror suspects, hours after President Barack Obama set up a new team of interrogators to question terror suspects.

Reports of the use of harsh interrogation techniques against terror suspects could lead to the prosecution of CIA employees and officials who sanctioned such methods.

Assistant attorney John Durham has already been conducting a probe into the destruction of videotapes of detainee interrogations by the CIA.

MRS/DT