Abuse Comes to Gitmo

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Two British Muslim men at the center of a recent Supreme Court case say the U.S. military is deceiving the public about interrogation techniques they claim they were subjected to during their two-year detention at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

In an open letter to President Bush and members of Congress, Shafiq Rasul and Asif Iqbal claim the Pentagon is lying when officials denied using physically abusive and humiliating techniques to elicit information from them.

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In a related development, the State Department said Thursday that the International Committee of the Red Cross recently provided the Bush administration with a report outlining its concerns about detainees at Guantanamo Bay. (Full story)

In their letter, Rasul and Iqbal claimed they were shackled for hours on end during questioning by military interrogators.

They said they were stripped naked while women were brought into the room and that they were subjected to dogs, strobe lights, loud music and freezing temperatures to disorient, frighten and degrade them.

The men also claimed other detainees were beaten, one of them so bady he required hospitalization.