Trial Illuminates Dark Tactics of Interrogation
It was dubbed the “sleeping bag technique.” Interrogators at a makeshift prison in western Iraq, desperate to break suspected insurgents, would stuff them face-first into a sleeping bag with a small hole cut in the bottom for air. Chief Warrant Officer Lewis E. Welshofer Jr. used it on an Iraqi general as a last-ditch grab for information as Welshofer’s unit was in the midst of an offensive against insurgents and desperate for intelligence. Full Story