Guantanamo Files: Most Surprising Revelations From The Leaked Documents

"Impotence-promoting" drugs. The threat of a "nuclear hellstorm." Prisoners leashed like dogs and forced to urinate on themselves.

These are just a few of the shocking revelations found among the cache of over 700 classified military documents detailing the 779 people who have been detained at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba.

Provided by WikiLeaks, the documents reveal that most of the 172 remaining detainees at the controversial facility have been rated as a "high risk" of posing a threat to the United States and its allies if released without adequate rehabilitation and supervision, according to the New York Times. And that's not all: as the Washington Post reports, the documents also offer some tantalizing glimpses into the top-secret operations of Osama bin Laden and other Al Qaeda officials.

View some of the most shocking revelations found in the "Guantanamo files" below:

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As the New York Times reports, Mohammed Qahtani -- a Saudi believed to have been an intended participant in the Sept. 11 attacks -- was subject to coercive questioning and other abuses during his interrogation. The cables describe Qahtani as being leashed like a dog, sexually humiliated and forced to urinate on himself. His file says, "Although publicly released records allege detainee was subject to harsh interrogation techniques in the early stages of detention," his confessions "appear to be true and are corroborated in reporting from other sources."

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As the New York Times reports, Mohammed Qahtani -- a Saudi believed to have been an intended participant in the Sept. 11 attacks -- was subject to coercive questioning and other abuses during his interrogation. The cables describe Qahtani as being leashed like a dog, sexually humiliated and forced to urinate on himself. His file says, "Although publicly released records allege detainee was subject to harsh interrogation techniques in the early stages of detention," his confessions "appear to be true and are corroborated in reporting from other sources."

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[mes7]

10:11 PM on 05/07/2011

Let's not forget the concentration camps we built after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor up and down the west coast to hold all our Japanese American citizens who had lived here for 100's of years in many cases ! And continued to inter them long after the war was over ! One of the great FDR's finest ideas and moments !
Yes we Americans are a humane bunch alright but hey, they all look a like right ? NOT !

[spurheim]

06:01 PM on 05/07/2011

To these people who want to pretend that the plane did not crash into the Pentagon
I would ask where are the people who were on that plane? Did a flying saucer scoop
them up. If you know where they are, their families would like you to tell them
because they disappeared that day and have not been heard from since.

[spurheim]

05:54 PM on 05/07/2011

This is a opinion page, any one can write anything and claim it to be the truth. FACT is 911
did happen and we all saw it and many of us lost chldren, bros, sis and friends. Those 3,000 plus souls cetrtainly were tortured as were their families and their country as they jumped out the windows to escape the fires. I'm sure water boarding would have been a picnic compared to
what happen to our families on 911. I hope none of you ever have your loved ones or friends
splattered on the streets of New York. I don't look at Gitmo as revenge but as prevention.
I am sure some mistakes were made but the terrorist planned these murders over a
long period of time, MAKE NO MISTAKE.

[bkerensa]

08:21 PM on 05/05/2011

Last time I checked Tax Payers fund the Government so there should be no need for Wikileaks the Government should be more transparent.

[palefeet]

11:05 AM on 05/03/2011

...the land of the brave and the home of the free...torture, genocide, three wars and a constant encroachment on personal freedom. I am happy i dont live there...

[banker67]

10:00 AM on 05/03/2011

Guess we do agree on a lot, but do you get the impression this point of view is considered sort of mildly insane? Probably it's my dismal personality, but I often find that even people who pretend to like me (and be married to me) look at me like I'm harmlessly nuts when I say things like: Soldiers who volunteer to fight in a war are responsible for their own lives.
One more example and then I'll leave you in peace. I reviewed some 911 videos recently. Among the more striking impossibilities was one showing the 'plane' crash at the Pentagon: No wreckage, no bodies, no fire damage and only a hole about half the size of the plane alleged to have hit the building.
When I mentioned this to friends, they dismissed it as unimportant.
Why?

[LogicalMathMan]

11:52 AM on 05/01/2011

Gotta love historic nostalgia...in bed with the ISI although it has been recognized as a terro.r.i.$.t organization....kinda like Osama during the Soviet invasion, Saddam during his war with Iran, Noriega in Panama and the list goes on.

[petrous huxley]

12:25 PM on 04/29/2011

The Focal Points blog over at FPIF has been running a long periodic series of pieces on WikiLeaks revelations. Here's something on the neglect of mental health problems among Guanatamo detainees:

http://www.fpif.org/blog/wikileaks_no_special_treatment_for_non-compos-mentis_gitmo_detainees

[Blackorpheus]

02:43 PM on 04/28/2011

Ron Jeremy! What's he doing in Gitmo? Oh, yeah, pornography.

[IonaTrailer]

05:30 PM on 04/27/2011

Um, personally, i don't care what happens to anyone who was a part of 9-11.

[Evan Kohout]

12:47 PM on 04/28/2011

completely agree

[schatsie]

08:10 PM on 04/28/2011

I would agree with you IF we sent the Wall Street RICO criminals there...they have been financial terrorists who make these people look like kindergartners.....

[April22]

05:26 PM on 04/27/2011

What have we become? How low has our government fallen?

What has our government done in our name?

No wonder we are hated by so many in the Middle East.

And we are led to believe we are a better more civilized people?!

[f0rTyLeGz]

09:31 PM on 04/29/2011

It is beyond reason. We used to be the Land of the Free, and the Home of the Brave. Now we spend $225 million a day trying to prevent motorbike riding religious maniacs who live without running water and electricity from "plotting." We ARE terrorized.

To me, to my way of thinking, just having a prison on Cuba is humiliating and disgraceful.

[rockyroad]

02:54 PM on 04/27/2011

WikiLeaks . . . still seems to me that it serves a great public service.

Without it, we would never have known and this conversation could neveer have occurred.

[jbacen]

07:07 PM on 04/27/2011

Hit squarely on the head, Sir.
http://jeffbacen.com

[F K 2]

10:13 AM on 04/29/2011

i agree, however i say some of it is apathy. i recall that the story that some guantanamo inmates were arrested simply for wearing casio watches was released a year or two ago. i remember reading it and wondering why there was no outrage. to be honest, there isnt much outrage over this new information either.

[Red-Feather]

01:42 PM on 04/27/2011

http://www.archive.org/details/Mujahideen-behead

[hculliton]

06:26 PM on 04/26/2011

I didn’t realize that Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantánamo Bay was a documentary. Are we still the good guys? It seems that we're destroying the very things that makes our democracy worth fighting for - which is exactly what al-Qaeda wanted us to do in the first place.

[Larry Motuz]

01:00 PM on 04/30/2011

al-Qaeda has effectively won their war on liberty in the U.S. by making the U.S. as immoral as they are when it comes to habeas corpus, due process, and human rights.

[Marilyn Angelo]

06:18 PM on 04/26/2011

Your article implies a link between torture and information that is not proven even within this very article. Because the detainee was treated with harsh techniques at some point does not prove that reliable information was gained in this way. It is irresponsible to imply a link that does not exist and is not proven either in fact or within your article.

[f0rTyLeGz]

09:38 PM on 04/29/2011

We have been fighting these motorbike riding, religious maniacs for a decade. Clearly we have gotten NO information from torturing these prisoners worth a hill of beans.