US officials at a notorious CIA detention site in used a detainee as a living prop to teach interrogators torture techniques, newly declassified documents reveal, bouncing the man's head off a wall until he was left with permanent brain damage.The shocking report, which dates back to 2008 but was unsealed Thursday, details the repeated torture of Ammar al-Baluchi, a current Guantanamo Bay captive and suspect in the attacks, at the former CIA 'black site' Cobalt, north of Kabul.Interrogators at the site, known both as Cobalt and 'the Salt Pit,' went beyond the CIA’s guidelines in torturing Baluchi, the documents reveal, testing techniques and their effectiveness without the agency's approval.
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