New York: CIA interrogators stripped naked and played earsplitting music to Abu Zubaydah, the first henchman of Osama bin Laden captured by US after the September 11 attacks in New York five years ago, according to a media report.
Zubaydah who was seriously wounded during his capture early in 2002 was initially questioned in a safe-house in Thailand, by FBI agents who used standard interview methods, The New York Times reported on Friday.
However the interrogation was later taken over by CIA operatives, who came armed with a classified directive signed by Bush on September 17, 2001, which authorised them to capture, detain and interrogate terrorism suspects, providing foundation for a secret-prison system abroad, the report said.
The new CIA team decided to use aggressive techniques to make Zubaydah reveal more of what he knew, and placed him in a cell without a bunk or blankets sometimes with air-conditioning adjusted so that Zubaydah seemed to turn blue, the report quoted one offical as saying.
At other times, the interrogators piped in deafening blasts of music by groups like the Red Hot Chili Peppers, the paper said.
US President George W Bush in his speech last Wednesday mentioned Zubaydah's case and said he had never authorised torture, but argued that methods used by the Central Intelligence Agency in its interrogations had helped uncover other al-Qaeda plots.
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