By Xinhua
Washington : The Pentagon is reviewing nearly 50 newly-found tapes with footage of terror suspects being questioned, including one that shows “the forcible gagging of a terrorism suspect,” The New York Times reported Thursday.
The paper said the footage was created while two men, Jose Padilla and Ali al-Marri, were being questioned at a Navy brig in South Carolina.
Don Black, a spokesman for the Defense Intelligence Agency, was quoted as saying that one clip shows al-Marri, a Qatari national who’s accused of being a member of al-Qaida, “was chanting loudly, disrupting his interrogation, and that interrogators used force to put duct tape on his mouth, while Marri resisted.”
The Pentagon review began in late January after the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) acknowledged that it had destroyed its own tapes of harsh interrogations conducted by CIA officers, which is now the subject of criminal and Congressional investigations.