Dry-boarding

Dry-boarding is a technique intended to gain the cooperation of interrogation subjects through inducing the first stages of death by asphixiation.^[1][2][3][4] Unlike waterboarding, where a wet cloth is placed over a supine subject's airways, so their breathing slowly fills their lungs with water, dryboarding induces asphixiation through stuffing the subject's airways with rags, then taping their mouth and nose shut.

Ali Saleh al-Marri, apprehended at grad school and held in a Navy brig in the USA, described having rags stuffed down his throat, and then having his mouth and nose taped shut.^[2][3]

Almerindo Ojeda, the director of the Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas, commented on the mysteries raised by the NCIS investigation of three deaths in Guantanamo camp authorities described as suicide, and how they could be more easily explained if the three men had been dry-boarded.^[2][3] Ojeda expressed skepticism that the men could have first stuffed rags down their throats, then tied their hands behind their backs, and suspended themselves by their necks. He wrote: "It is clear that dryboarding can dispose, single-handedly, of all the questions we have raised thus far."

References

1. ^ Tony Bartelme (2011-10-12). "Memos detail Navy brig struggle: Military brass were denied OK to move terror suspects from Hanahan". Post and Courier. http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2011/oct/12/memos-detail-brig-struggle/. Retrieved 2011-10-15. "After the 2008 election, President Barack Obama transferred al-Marri's case to the federal court system. Al-Marri then pleaded guilty to conspiracy to support a terrorist group and was sentenced to 15 years."  mirror
2. ^ ^{a b c} Tony Bartelme (2011-11-06). "Do brig interrogations shed light on 3 deaths?". Post and Courier. http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2011/nov/06/do-brig-interrogations-shed-light-on-3-deaths/. Retrieved 2011-11-11. "The dryboarding of Mr. al-Marri raises an unavoidable question. Did the three individuals found hanging in Guant namo die from dryboarding rather than by hanging?"  mirror
3. ^ ^{a b c} Almerindo Ojeda (2011-11-03). "Death in Guantanamo: Suicide or Dryboarding?". Truthout. http://www.truth-out.org/death-guantanamo-suicide-or-dryboarding/1320182714. Retrieved 2011-11-11. "The news release was categorical with regards to the self-inflicted nature of the deaths. And the camp commander was equally certain of their hostile intent. Yet the news release was curiously guarded about the manner of these deaths - the three "appear" to have hanged themselves with nooses made of bed sheets and clothing, it said."  mirror
4. ^ Scott Horton (2011-11-09). ""Dryboarding" and Three Unexplained Deaths at Guantánamo". Harper's magazine. http://www.harpers.org/archive/2011/11/hbc-90008305. Retrieved 2011-11-11. "Al-Marri later told his attorneys that interrogators stuffed a sock in his mouth and taped his lips shut with duct tape. Al-Marri said he loosened the tape; the interrogators taped it more tightly. When he started to choke, the interrogators ripped off the tape. Al-Marri’s attorney in Charleston, Andy Savage, calls this technique 'dryboarding.'"  mirror