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Anton Kusters is a Belgium-based photographer who in 2011, published his first photobook on the Yakuza, the Japanese organized crime families, that he photographed for two years. Yakuza is a personal visual account of the life inside an inaccessible subculture —“ a traditional Japanese crime family that controls the streets of Kabukicho, in the heart of Tokyo, Japan. Through many months of delicate preparations and negotiations by his brother Malik, their fixer Taka-san, the duo became the only westerners ever to be granted this kind of access to that closed world.
Actually it began with me trying to find a way to spend more time with my brother, who lives in Tokyo working in marketing. We were out having a beer one night, discussing how to do this, when suddenly this Yakuza came in. He was very sharply dressed, in a tailored suit, and had this presence about him. He greeted everyone, spoke to the bar’s owner, Taka-san, and left. So it just seemed like a cool idea. My brother knew Taka-san well enough to ask him to be our fixer with the gang.
After Taka-san introduced me, he told me and my brother we were on our own. So we had to really fend for ourselvestrying to convince the gang to let me photograph them. It took a little while. At first they thought I might be doing this for a paper, so I had told them it was not journalistically inspired, but an art project that would lead to a book and an exhibition. They quite liked the idea of an art project. They view what they do as part of a way of life rather than the sum of their actions, and liked talking about the subculture—it’s values and everything. They turned out to be very encouraging. They enjoyed the attention.
I was extremely nervous. Since they are gangsters, I thought I should be very careful, in case I shot something I wasn’t supposed to see. But this actually upset the gang. They saw my nervousness as disrespectful. I remember one time early on Soichiro pulled me aside and said, “You are here to take pictures. Act like a professional.” It turned out they respected me if I was really aggressive about getting a certain shot. To not take photos was a sign of weakness.
The values were almost comparable to general Japanese workplace values, actually. Most yakuza gangs actually have neighborhood offices, and the plaques they have on the door state core values like “respect your superiors,” “keep the office clean,” and so on.
One thing I noticed early on with gang life was how subtle everything was. Everything was unspoken, and will was expressed through group pressure. A pressure was constantly there. There was this innate understanding of form—if someone did something wrong, no one would say anything; he would simply be expected to apologize. And the fact everyone would be so silent about it made the pressure really intense.
Mostly not. There were of course men who had had yubitsume and it would still happen, but only every few years or so.
The gang really went out of their way to minimize violence. Part of what I noticed about the Yakuza was that they felt as if they were almost “part” of society, like society wasn’t society without a criminal element, but this also made them very conscious of their role within society. Like I said, they have a pretty visible profile in Japan, so all the bosses are very careful not to stand out or draw attention. This also obviously makes them much harder to prosecute.
If someone made a transgression, the most common punishment was demotion. And it was taken seriously. If someone was demoted it was really seen as shameful since the yakuza are so hierarchical. They could leverage social form that way.
They were involved in a lot of white-collar crime. In the past there had been violent turf wars, but Soichiro, the street boss, told me “We can get the most money out of the economy.”
An example would be debt collection. They would actually go and buy entire loan databases and pay off the money people owed. Of course, after that happened, those debts were just transferred over to the yakuza.
Also, after Fukushima [the nuclear disaster], they helped rebuild some houses; only it wasn’t a simple philanthropic relationship. These people now owe the gang.
Here too there was unspoken pressure. For example, the first few times they would simply send a member over to the house of the person who owed. He wouldn’t mention the debt directly or anything, but there was no mistaking what he was there for. They were really skilled at unspoken intimidation.
It’s said neighborhoods with a big yakuza presence are some of the seediest places in Japan, but also some of the safest places. The yakuza are not randomly violent—I mean, there is violence, but it doesn’t spill out into the public eye very often since keeping a low profile is good for business. And the yakuza are vested in making sure other people’s violence doesn’t spill into the public, either.
All non-yakuza gangs with a presence in Japan only exist by the grace of the yakuza. In Kabuki-cho the Nigerian mob were ceded a certain amount of territory and not allowed to step outside their bounds. If they did they’d be beaten up. The gang had street cameras everywhere to make sure nothing disruptive was happening.
It’s true they are practical. Sometimes members would try to justify debt collection by saying “people who owe money are not good people and deserve it,” but I never had the impression anyone really believed that. It was just good, practical business.
The sense of family was very real. Many delinquent youth, who haven’t had much in their life, are given something secure, a place where they feel they belong.
The gang made its recruits attend week-long orientations at a fishing village. I went along for one of these. There was bodyguard training, how to defend from a knife attack, stuff like that. But these recruits also rose at four in the morning to meditate. They helped local fisherman with their haul, cooked together at the end of the day. They learned how to handle samurai swords. There was something very ceremonial about it. It was strange, having these helpful and violent things happening side by side that illustrated how yakuza saw themselves…bad people doing good things.
I followed around two people mainly, who brought me into the bigger social circle. One was the kaichou, the president of the organization. The other was Shoichiro, who was the street boss.
The kaichou looked a university professor—wire glasses, white hair, a goatee. He always walked around in a tailored suit—all the higher ups did. The kaichou was de facto the CEO of the family, delegating tasks to a lot of people, always being driven around, surrounded by bodyguards. He liked golf. I thought he was friendly enough, but wasn’t very chatty. I didn’t expect him to be, he had a business to run all the time.
Soichiro was a muscular guy, since he worked as the physical enforcer for all the gang’s ground operations. He was very gruff, especially on the phone and when he was around his subordinates. He was my direct contact within the family, and I was actually closest with him. He was actually very particular about his appearance, and got his haircut and nails manicured once a week.
Tattoos were originally used as a way for members to recognize each other at bathhouses, the traditional yakuza place of business. But these tattoos obviously have deep significance for yakuza, and getting one is a very big deal. It’s a sense of pride and belonging, as well as a testament to one’s manhood because the process is so painful.
Gangs typically have a certain artist working for them—but this wasn’t an “in-house” situation and there was no pressure on members from seeing other artists. These artists work through a very old medium of sticking four inked needles into the skin, at around 120 pokes per minute, at a precise angle against bodyfat. There aren’t too many of them operating anymore, so the gang treats with a tremendous amount of respect. Even the kaichou called his tattoo artist “sensei.”
To get a meeting with an artist, you first need an internal recommendation. Then you have an interview with the artist to see if he even agrees to take you on—they say the honor of being chosen by a tattoo artist is as important as the tattoo itself.
I was with the kaichou when he got a second tattoo. The gang had just entered into an alliance with another family, so as a show of loyalty he had his original full-body tattoo burned off with hot coals and replaced with a new tattoo.
Coming in, I thought I would be dealing with thugs. While I was shielded from the violence, these yakuza still seem more like economic criminals. Life here is not a Kill Bill movie. It turned out everything was more subtle.
Members pose in the streets of Kabukicho, the red light district in the heart of Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan.
Nitto-san sits in the back of a car en route to the Niigata prison to pick up two yakuza members, who would be released from prison that morning.
Men shower in an Onsen, a typical Japanese bath house, after playing in a golf tournament. Some bath houses in Japan deny access to those with tattoos, in an effort to stop yakuza from frequenting them.
Traditional Japanese tattoos, often seen on the bodies of the yakuza, are done manually with several sharp, inked needles.
Yamamoto Kaicho, a number two boss, lies still as master Tattooist Hori Sensei completes his full body tattoo.
A Yakuza street fighter shows off his tattoo in Shinjuku, Tokyo.
Members of the Shinseikai family stand guard outside a restaurant where the bosses are eating dinner.
Young yakuza recruits line up at the beach every morning to have a moment of meditation before they start their daily training routine of close combat fighting, bodyguard training, and knife practice.
The Godfather’ arrives at a service for a member who has died surrounded by bodyguards
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…about two years ago, [she] got in touch with the retired Hartford police detective.
“She started to reach out to me and sent me an email,” he said. “I think she Facebook-stalked me, is what she calls it.”
“Honestly, a lump came in my throat,” [he] said, describing how he felt when he received the first message from [her]. “It was kind of cool, you know, that somebody would even remember you from that long ago. I mean, I always remembered her. There’s a picture on my desk that her mom gave me a year or two after [on] one of her birthdays.”
Here’s how the world’s oddest suicide method would work: First the rider would face a long, slow climb up to more than 500 meters, giving him or her a few minutes to think back on life and contemplate the decision. At the top, there would be time to say a prayer or blow a kiss to relatives (or bail) before pressing the “fall” button and plummeting into the long steep plunge followed by the first 360-degree loop. That’s where most riders would die. According to Urbonas, traveling at 100 meters per second, the person would experience a G-force-induced loss of consciousness due to cerebral hypoxia (lack of oxygen reaching the brain), which often causes a sense of euphoria. Just in case that first one didn’t do it, six more consecutive loops would finish the job. Building the structure would be a challenge. The Euthanasia Coaster would be more than three times the height of the world’s tallest roller coaster, the Kingda Ka, which took 18 months and $25 million to construct.
A pack of Marlboro Lights in Australia is AU$23, which equals $16.69 US dollars. But if that isn’t enough to get people to quit smoking, the labels on the individual cigarette packs should do the trick:
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15 Photos Guaranteed To Make A Smile On Your Face – Ned Hardy
Emily Ratajkowski On The Perils of Being Incredibly Gorgeous – Maxim
Elijah Wood Says That Child Abuse In Hollywood Is Running Rampant – Newser
27 Absurd Headlines That Should Have Never Happened This Week – Linkiest
Ariel Winter Shows Bella Thorne She Doesn’t Wear Bras Either – G-Celeb
The Best Podcasts for Smart People – Ranker
Bras Are Optional and Life is Good! (42 Photos) – Radass
Strongman Challenges A Bodybuilder In Epic Strength Battle You Have To Watch – Rant Lifestyle
The CEO of Japan Airlines cut his perks that he now makes less than some of the pilots in the company – YouTube
Florida Teen Caught Screwing 25 Boys in School Bathroom on Snapchat – The Blemish
30 “Oh Damn” Pics of Odette Annable – Regretful Morning
Martin Scorsese’s gangster movie‘The Irishman’ starring Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci,Harvey Keitel,Al Pacino secures 50 million dollar funding – Deadline
Bella Hadid is flashy – Celeb Slam
Rosie Jones salutes this great nation with a sultry hand-bra picture – Ehowa
Daily Man Up (30 Photos) – Suburban Men
10 Cute Women With Huge Racks – Classy Bro
X-Force is Already in the Works Because There’s No Such Thing as Too Much of a Good Thing Anymore – Double Viking
5 signs you’re going to be extraordinarily successful – Business Insider
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The Grandmama has always been known to go hard in the paint against the likes of Alonzo Mourning and Shawn Kemp, but no one would have expected his baby moms. In an attempt to get out of inevitable child support payments, L.J. “strongly encouraged” pregnant model, Laura Tate, to have an abortion back in ’97. Needless to say it didn’t work and she went public with his threats.
Collarbone injuries and substance abuse issues sidelined Charles Rogers for much of his brief and unspectacular career with the Detroit Lions, but nothing was keeping this man from putting up numbers in the bedroom. Though he only lasted three years in the NFL, Rogers has fathered seven kids with multiple women. On top of that, he was charged with paying back $6.1M of his signing bonus money back to the Lions in 2010. You don’t have to be a genius to see that those numbers don’t add up to anything good.
Evidently the former fighter beat up plenty of things besides other boxers. He fathered six children during his time as a prizefighter, and was hit with a $62.5 million dollar palimony suit by one of his baby mama’s in 2000. The suit came after his girlfriend at the time, Shanna Moakler, saw de la Hoya on TV escorting another woman down the aisle at the Latin Grammy Awards.
Ray Lewis has to be one of the most feared line backers in NFL history. This man has been known for laying people out with his hard hits. However when he’s not laying people out, it looks like Ray is out there laying the pipe. This man is one of the most feared men in the NFL, but it looks like he has a fear of condoms, as he has a total of 6 children with an unknown number of women.
Marshall ran up a lot of things in his heyday. He rushed for over over 12,000 yards and scored 100 rushing touchdowns when playing for the Rams and the Colts, but the recent Hall of Fame inductee (2011) also ran up in his share of women. He fathered six kids with three different ladies. Run Marshall, run!
Shawn Kemp is easily one of the most talented, yet reckless players in the NBA. It’s sad that this man let his talents go to waste as he couldn’t stay out of trouble. He has been arrested multiple times for drug possession. Shawn was known for having a lot of fun and his outlandish coke habits. Legend has it that Shawn used to do coke before games as a warm up.
Shawn not only had trouble staying out of trouble, he had trouble staying outside of women as well. Over the years, Shawn has fathered a total of 7 children, with 6 different women. Some sources say he may have as much as 11, but this is not confirmed.
Under the belt of the baddest man on the planet is a number of heavyweight titles won by knocking out each courageous clown who dared entered the ring with him. But also under that same belt is a potent member that’s sired a total of eight kids with an undetermined number of ladies.
Vladimir Guerrero was known for a variety of things. First, the former Major League Baseball player was a key member of the Montreal Expos for a number of years. The right fielder had a cannon for an arm and could gun down any runners trying to snag an extra base. At the plate, he was known as one of the best bad-ball hitters in the game. At the same time, Guerrero also had 8 children with 5 different women. Guerrero could stop any baserunner in their tracks, but apparently, nobody could stop him from procreating. That’s a lot of kids and a lot of baby mamas to deal with on Christmas.
The Greatest was always known for his ability to turn a phrase, and apparently his smooth talking talents made him popular in a couple other ways as well. Ali is the father of seven daughters and two sons with five different women. If that number seems unbelieveably high to you, just remember that impossible is nothing for this man.
Antonio Cromartie is a shut down corner that can keep up with almost any wide receiver in the league. Although he provides great coverage on the field, covering his own dick seams to be too much of a task for this star. Antonio is lightning fast and makes keeping up with the best wide receivers look so easy.
However remembering the name of his 7 children seems to be more difficult than his one-on-one match ups with the best receivers. Here is a video of Antonio’s pitiful attempt to name his children.
In the year 2004, Jason was bought out by the Milwaukee Bucks for a cool $11 million. Since he was officially out of a job, Jason had time to pursue his true passion: impregnating women. Over the years, Jason put in work as he fathered 10 children, with 8 different women. He was well on pace to create his own 12 man basketball roster until paying all that child support slowed down his flow. Hey, at least look at the bright side, he has two starting rotations.
Willis McGahee came out of the “U” with a lot of hype. The Miami Hurricane was so good, that despite getting injured in the national championship game, he was still taken in the first round of the NFL Draft. McGahee’s NFL career lasted 11 NFL seasons, a number of which were highly productive. As productive as McGahee was on the gridiron, he was equally productive off the field: as in, reproductive. McGahee is said to have as many as 9 kids with 8 different baby mamas.
Travis Henry was never one to quite grasp the idea of safe sex or sobriety, as he is one reckless person. He played running back for the Denver Broncos and led the league in marijuana-related suspensions. To his credit, Travis had a unique skill of finding the hole and busting through it, both on and off the field.
Although he did play football, he should’ve considered basketball as a possible career. This man can clearly average a double double as he had 11 children with 10 different women.
Evander Holyfield is one of the most iconic figures in the sport of professional boxing. He owes a lot to his natural talent and his ability to take hits. Although he sacrificed his ear and lost the majority of his brain cells throughout his career, there is one thing this man did not lose and that was his sperm count. Evander must have been a big soccer fan, as he fathered a total of 11 children — enough to have a whole soccer team. Why buy a team when you can make your own, right?
Calvin Murphy easily takes the title. This was a man on a mission and it seems that he had no problem dipping his dong into anything that moved. As if wetting his whistle wasn’t enough, this man obviously had no sense for the use of condoms. Maybe he just didn’t know they existed, but who cares?
Looks like Calvin wanted to own his own basketball team, but realized it might be cheaper if he just produces one. Not only did he produce a full 12-man roster, but he created two more because we all know every team needs a water and towel boy. Calvin we tip our hats to you.
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Florence And The Machine Gives Private Concert At Hospice For Girl Who Was Too Sick To Attend The Show – Ned Hardy
This Game of Thrones Porn Parody Is The Best Thing You’ll See All Day – Maxim
Stick figures explain every weird social interaction you may have in a day – Linkiest
Kelly Osbourne Tweets Number of Ozzy’s Other Woman – Newser
Ariana Grande’s Subtle Butt Shot THOT of the Day – Drunken Stepfather
The Worst Cases of the Madden Curse That’ll Make You Believe – Ranker
Bella Thorne Rockin’ a Tight White Sports Bra and Pants – G-Celeb
An Expert’s Guide to Brothel Etiquette – VICE
I’ve Always Been a Sucker for a Girl With Dimples (38 Photos) – Radass
Guy Eats 18,000 Calories Worth Of McDonald’s Weighing In At 13 Pounds Of Food – Rant Lifestyle
Someone Keep This Wannabe Stripper Away from the Pole – The Blemish
Caveman’s Hot Picks Of The Day – Caveman Afterdark
36 Hot Teases from Camilla Belle – Regretful Morning
Well My Bucket List Has Been Re-Written Since I Saw These Breathtaking Images – Slip Talk
Hailee Steinfeld is in a bikini – Celeb Slam
Bill Cosby Admits to Drugging and Sexually Assaulting Teenagers – Complex
Hot & Sexy Southern Girls (Girls From The South) – Classy Bro
Five Reasons Stay Dead is the Best Bad Video Game Ever – Gunaxin
Doctors say late BMX legend Dave Mirra had CTE – ESPN
Livia Gullo Is The Brazilian that will take your breath away – Bad Sentinel
Netflix Lands Disney/Marvel/Lucasfilm Properties, Could a ‘Star Wars’ Netflix Series Be Far Behind? – Double Viking
Nice and thick bride in wedding lingerie – Ehowa
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I’m enjoying this new song from hottie electro singer rel. She came on the scene last year with soulful pop track Plateau and her new single is just as exciting.
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Bookies do two things when arranging bets to make money. First, they try to make even odds so that there are equal numbers of people on both sides of the bet. Second, they make it so the odds don’t quite even out and there will be money leftover for the bookie.
For example, say a bookie is taking bets on a football game between the Texans and Cowboys. If too many people are betting for the Cowboys, the bookie will adjust the point spread to encourage more people to vote for the Texans. They keep doing this until people are betting on both sides evenly. They also make it so that you have to bet something like $110 to win $100. Now let’s say 10 people bet on the Cowboys and 10 on the Texans and they all bet $110. That’s $2,200 total. The Texans win with the point spread. The bookie pays each person who bet on the Texans $210 – the original $110 back plus the $100 they won. That’s $2,100 he has to pay out total. The bookie gets to keep the leftover $100. Put another way, each Cowboys bettor put up $110. $100 of that goes to each person who bet on the Texans for winning and $10 is leftover of the bookie.
Since there are an equal number of bets on both sides, the math works out the same no matter who wins.
– TellahTheSage
The Amish do not universally shun modern technology, it can vary between groups and communities. There are Amish who drive cars and use voicemail. That being said, they have a tendency to not immediately accept new technology automatically. Rather, to them they place a high value on community, family, and separation from the world at large. And in assigning these values primacy, they deliberate on whether a new piece of technology will be a benefit to them, or detrimental. For instance, a phone may be considered detrimental, because you rely on it instead of meeting and socializing with your neighbors. Electricity might be useful because it allows you more utility with nighttime hours, but being connected to the power grid reduces your separation from the outside. And so on.
– stuthulhu
The jury is not permitted to consider taking the fifth as an admission of guilt.
Also, it’s important to remember that the jury will never hear a defendant assert his Fifth Amendment rights on the stand, because the defendant won’t even be on the stand unless they have already waived their Fifth Amendment rights. The only people who they will hear take the Fifth are other witnesses who are not charged in that proceeding.
– Teekno
Strength: Can lift or manipulate between 66 quintillion and 400 quintillion tons.
Durability: Superman has survived numerous attacks in the past that are quoted as being of equal power to a supernova and has experienced some even more powerful attacks.
Speed: Superman is capable of Faster Than Light travel and can bend space-time around himself to go even faster. He can even go so fast he can leave our universe if he unleashes all of his barriers.
Weaknesses (Not including depowering ones):
Strength: Effectively limitless depending upon his emotional state. “The madder Hulk gets, the stronger Hulk gets.” Starts out at roughly 100 tons of lifting capacity.
Durability: Hulks body will mutate as needed to compensate for any external threat including crushing pressure underwater, the surface of the sun and outer space as long as he stays mad.
Speed: Hulk is capable of Superhuman speeds of several hundred miles per hour and can enter low Earth orbit through jumping. He can then also survive the re-entry from low orbit.
Weaknesses (Not including depowering ones):
I think I have to give this fight to Superman with one caveat. Superman would do everything he could to not kill the Hulk. Superman is faster and smarter and has a wide range of utility abilities at his disposal that Hulk cannot compare to. Hulk has no limit to his strength and is effectively immortal so long as he remains angry. Unfortunately Hulk also starts off much weaker and cannot easily increase his strength on demand.
This is how I see the fight playing out.
Hulk likely starts this fight with a good punch to Superman which he shrugs off as pictured above. Superman ever the reasonable one, tries to talk Hulk down but this only makes Hulk angrier and results in stronger punches. Superman might start out with a few blows to test the Hulk’s strength making Hulk very mad at the “Little blue man”. Hulk would lash out at him in return. Superman would then realize he needs to cut out some limits and ramp up in strength. Hulk would get angrier because he is “Strongest there is!” and match Superman.
Eventually Superman would move the fight to another planet possibly one of Jupiter’s moons as he did in Superman vs The Elites. He doesn’t want innocents to be harmed in the coming fight. He might take some serious blows from Hulk while trying to drag and throw him to IO. Superman would then leave IO and do an extended sundive to power-up. While he is performing his sundive he would be cutting out his limits like he normally would to prepare for interstellar travel.
Hulk would get very angry at being left there alone “Hey! This fight not OVER!” and jump off towards the sun. Strong as he is he might be moving pretty fast but nowhere near Superman’s speed. At this rate it might take Hulk a while to get back to Supes.
The now overpowered and unlimited Superman would fly back toward IO at near light speed and do an Infinite Mass Punch on the Hulk that is now hurling through space.
With Zeptosecond precision, Superman would break off his attack at the exact moment when Hulk is about to be killed. He would then throw the unconscious Hulk somewhere on Earth that is deserted and pleasant to rest.
Hulk can be overcome if he is attacked with a sufficiently strong attack to beat his resistances before he gets too angry to shrug off the attack. Superman on the other hand can willingly remove all of his barriers and boost himself with solar energy at will. This lets Superman ramp up his power faster than Hulk can boost his anger effectively beating Hulks resistance to damage. The Hulk on the other hand for all of his strength just isn’t fast enough to even hit Superman easily.
– Ariel Williams
An NPR article mentioned a study that concluded it is because on the way there you are focused on the time the entire way, constantly glancing at the clock to make sure you are on time. On the way home you pay less attention to the time and allow yourself to be distracted by other things, thus causing it to feel shorter.
NPR Article: Why The Trip Home Seems To Go By Faster
A few reasons to consider:
Jobs that used to be associated with the middle class have largely moved overseas, and are likely not coming back. There are no longer as many job opportunities for people without a high level of education.
There has been a trend whereby wealth is starting to accumulate at a faster pace for the top 10% of earners. There is debate as to why this his happening. Some people think it’s because we are crushing small businesses, and other believe it’s because the tax rate on the rich is too low.
– jfnewcombe
Humans are social animals. If you want to have a cushy life in the group, you have to pick up on lots of little cues. Body language, tone of voice, facial expression, every little detail is important and we are trained to pick up on discrepencies. A good actor has to fool you on all of these fronts. A bad actor might only fuck up on one. His smile doesnt reach his eyes. His voice doesnt sound as angry as his face looks. His face is scared but his body language says hes calm. He fucks a line or his voice cracks. Theres a million ways for his act to be off in just a tiny way, but you pick up on it because social cues are important.
The CIA, and the Senate intelligence committee, would rather avoid the word “torture,” preferring euphemisms like “enhanced interrogation techniques” and “rendition, detention and interrogation program”.Many of the techniques employed by the CIA after capturing high-value targets have been documented in CIA memos released by the Obama administration, and in numerous leaks, including a report written by the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Here are some of the techniques known to have been used, and the effects on detainees:
Rectal feeding and rehydration – The torture report contains new information on the CIA’s use of rectal feeding and rehydration. At least five detainees were subjected to the process, the report states. The report details how accused USS Cole bomber Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri was placed “in a forward facing position (Trendelenburg) with head lower than torso”, whilst undergoing rectal feeding.
Another detainee, Majid Khan, a legal resident of the United States and accused confident of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, was also subjected to rectal feeding. According to a CIA cable released in the report, his “‘lunch tray’ consisting of hummus, pasta with sauce, nuts and raisins was ‘pureed and rectally infused’”.
Mohammed was also subjected to rectal rehydration “without a determination of medical need”. Mohammed’s chief interrogator described use of the process as emblematic of their “total control over the detainee”.
Abdominal Slap — The purpose was to cause the detainee to feel fear and despair, to punish certain behavior and humiliate or insult the detainee, according to a description in government documents, obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union in 2009. The interrogator stands about a foot from the detainee’s stomach, and slaps the detainee with the back of his hand. The interrogator’s hand is held with the fingers together and straight and slaps the detainee’s abdomen. The CIA was using this technique prior to 2004 without approval by the Justice Department.
Attention Grasp — The interrogator grabs the detainee by the collar, with two hands, and pulls him closer in, according to a description of the technique by former CIA acting general counsel John Rizzo. Rizzo described this technique being used on Al Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah in his recent book, “Company Man.”
Cramped Confinement — The interrogator would put the detainee in a box, sometimes big enough to stand in, for up to 18 hours, or one only big enough to curl up in for up to two hours, Rizzo said in his book. The interrogator had the option to put a “harmless” insect inside the small box when the technique was used on Zubaydah, because he hated bugs, Rizzo said.
Dietary Manipulation — This technique involved switching from solid foods to liquid. For instance, in August 2002, Zubaydah was put on a liquid diet that consisted of Ensure and water, the Senate report said.
The Facial Hold — The interrogator holds the detainee’s head so it can’t move and puts one hand on each side of the detainee’s face, keeping fingertips away from the detainee’s eyes, Rizzo explained in his book.
The Facial Slap/Insult Slap — The interrogator slaps the detainee in the face, with fingers spread, striking between the chin and earlobe, Rizzo explained in his book. The idea, Rizzo said, was to startle or humiliate the detainee, Zubaydah, and “disabuse him of the notion that he wouldn’t be physically hit.”
Nudity — This technique was used with others. For instance, a detainee would be forced to stand for prolonged periods while nude.
Stress Positions — The purpose of these techniques are to stimulate mild discomfort from extended muscle use, according to a description in a government document obtained by the ACLU. Two such positions, used on Zubaydah, were to have him sit on the floor with his legs stretched out in front of him and his arms above his head, or kneeling on the floor while leaning back at a 45-degree angle, Rizzo said in his book.
Sleep Deprivation — Detainees were kept awake for up to 180 hours, often standing or in a stress position, the Senate report said. Sometimes, the detainees’ hands would be shackled above their heads. At least five detainees had “disturbing hallucinations” during this technique, and in two of those cases, the CIA continued the practice. One detainee, Arsala Khan, hallucinated after 56 hours of standing sleep deprivation in October 2003. After this, the CIA came to the conclusion that he “does not appear to be the subject involved in … current plans or activities against US personnel or facilities.” After about a month of detention and interrogation, the CIA recommended he be released to his village, but interrogators instead transferred him to the US military, where he remained in custody for four years.
Wall Standing — A detainee faces a wall, standing about four feet away. The interrogator has the detainee reach out his arms toward the wall so that his fingers are touching it. The detainee would have to hold that position indefinitely, according to a description by Rizzo about this technique used on Zubaydah.
Walling — Interrogators slam detainees against a wall. In one instance, Zubaydah was slammed against a concrete wall, the Senate report said. On March 22, 2003, Al Qaeda leader Khalid Sheikh Mohammed underwent “intense” questioning and walling. Giving up no new information, interrogators water-boarded him. After an hour of that, he said he was “ready to talk,” the CIA said.
Waterboarding — The detainee is strapped to a board or bench, and water is poured over the detainees face to simulate drowning. According to the Senate report, the technique brought on convulsions and vomiting, immediate fluid intake, and involuntary leg, chest, and arm spasms. Abu Zubaydah became “completely unresponsive, with bubbles rising through his open, full mouth.” Zubaydah was described as “hysterical” after these sessions and “distressed to a level that he was unable to effectively communicate.” At one point, Khalid Sheik Mohammad was water-boarded 65 times between the afternoon of March 12, 2003, and the morning of March 13.
Water Dousing — Naked detainees were held down on a tarp on the floor, according to the Senate report. The tarp would be pulled up around them to make a bathtub. Cold or refrigerated water would be poured on them. In some cases, detainees were hosed down over and over again as they were naked and shackled, standing in a sleep deprivation pose.
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