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Yadel, Brahim - short clip - InterrogationDuringSurgery

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	(upbeat music)	0:00
	(speaking in foreign language)	0:03
Interpreter	So then they undressed me.	0:09
	So I was naked in that room.	0:10
	They set me on a table, they made me lay down on the table.	0:12
	And so then what happened was that they operated on me.	0:15
	The doctor was standing behind me and he started to operate.	0:18
	And what he did was, he put me to sleep,	0:21
	he gave me an anesthetic,	0:24
	but I thought he was going to give me a general anesthetic,	0:25
	but what he did was a half anesthetic,	0:29
	which means that I was in my conscious, why?	0:31
	He had his reasons.	0:34
	This way he could go on with the operation	0:36
	while at the same time, so I could feel the surgery,	0:38
	the pain from the surgery.	0:40
	And at the same time interrogators were asking me questions.	0:42
	So that is a technique, apparently well-documented.	0:45
	Later I found out it was a commonly used technique.	0:49
	At the same time as they were operating on me,	0:52
	they were interrogating me.	0:54
	That meant that I endure the pain of the surgery	0:56
	while at the same time I was facing two interrogators	0:59
	who were interrogating me and bombarding me with questions	1:02
	throughout the surgery actually, that's a fact.	1:05
	So that went on for, I don't know, a very, very long time.	1:08
	And at that point I really was in pain,	1:12
	it was a very, very, very hard time.	1:13

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Detainee Number US9FR-000371DP
Brahim Yadel, male, age 38, French, was detained in Guantanamo from January 2002 until July 26, 2004, when he was released to France.
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