‘Dark Age torture at Camp X-ray’

THE US military has tortured terrorist suspects held without charge at the Guantanamo Bay military prison, an Australian lawyer representing some of the suspects claimed yesterday.

US-based Mr Richard Bourke, who has been working for almost two years on behalf of dozens of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, said American military officials were using old-fashioned torture techniques to force confessions out of prisoners.

Mr Bourke said the methods "clearly" fell under the definition of torture under international conventions. "They are engaging in good old-fashioned torture, as people would have understood it in the Dark Ages," he said.