special interrogation plan

"Military necessity" was used to justify the "special interrogation plan" authorized by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld for use on Guantánamo detainee Mohamed al-Qahtani, considered to have high intelligence value but to be resistant to standard US army interrogation techniques. Mohamed al-Qahtani was subjected to extreme isolation for three months in late 2002 and early 2003. He was variously forced to wear women’s underwear; was tied by a leash and led around the room while being forced to perform a number of dog tricks; was forced to dance with a male interrogator while made to wear a towel on his head "like a burka"; was subjected to forcible shaving of his head and beard during interrogation, stripping and strip-searching in the presence of women, sexual humiliation, culturally inappropriate use of female interrogators, and to sexual insults about his female relatives; was subjected to hooding, loud music, white noise, sleep deprivation, and to extremes of heat and cold; was made to stand for long periods; and was forced to urinate in his clothing when interrogators refused to allow him to go to the toilet.
Mohamed al-Qahtani was interrogated for 18 to 20 hours per day for 48 out of 54 consecutive days.