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Show Sunday, February 17, 2008 DAILY HERALD A5 Guantanamo interrogation chief stands by techniques Andrew 0. Selsky THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba Interrogators got intelligence from detainees that helped U.S. troops in Afghanistan attack Taliban and fighters last summer they did it through casual questioning and not torture, the military's chief interrogator here said. In a rare interview with The Associated Press, veteran interrogator Paul Rester complained that his profession has gotten a bad reputation due to accounts of waterboarding and month. Buzby said several detainees, using poster board and crayons, drew detailed maps of the Tora Bora area in eastern Afghanistan that enabled coalition forces to wipe out safe houses, trenches and supplies last summer as Taliban forces were returning to the stronghold they had abandoned more than five years ago. . Buzby, in a separate interview with the AP, said a U.S. commander in Afghanistan had requested the information on a Friday and it was obtained and sent to Afghanistan by the end of the weekend. Rester indicated the interrogators casually asked the detainees about their knowledge of Tora Bora, not letting on that it was tactically important for a pending military strike. "And it may in fact, since it was five years old, have seemed totally innocuous to the persons we were talking to Rester said. Buzby, the top commander of detention operations at Guantanamo, said the intelligence "had a very positive effect ... for us and a very ing temperatures and stripped nude in front of female personnel at Guantanamo. He said he admitted meeting Osama bin Laden and agreeing to participate in a "martyr mission" for only because he was tortured, and told the panel that he was innocent. A 2005 military investiga- detainee abuse) rhttt have propagated all stem from those two," said Rester, who began his career in the Vietnam War. "The constant attention on that takes away from the fact that the productive, consistent direcf approach ... has enabled us to possess the vast body of knowledge that we actually negative effect on the enemy operating in that area." He declined to be more specific. In the interview, Rester said only two detainees were given rougher treatment in Guantanamo, and that was during the earlier days: Mohammed the alleged 20th hijacker who was turned away from the United States by immigration officials just before the Sept. 11 attacks, and an unidentified man Rester said recruited lead hijacker tion concluded that had been subjected to harsh treatment approved by Secretary Donald Rumsfeld because he would not crack under have." told a military panel at Guantanamo that he was beaten, restrained for long periods in uncomfortable positions, threatened with dogs, exposed to loud music and freez Mo-ham- Atta. "Most of the stories (of then-Defen- other rough interrogation tactics used by the CIA at "black sites." 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