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WASHINGTON | Mon Aug 24, 2009 8:07pm EDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Following are details and examples about "enhanced" interrogation techniques used by the Bush administration on terrorism suspects held overseas after the September 11 attacks on the United States in 2001, according to information newly released from a 2004 CIA report.

* The techniques included waterboarding which induces the sensation of drowning, sleep and food deprivation, slamming a detainee against a false wall to create a loud sound and shock the prisoner and confinement into a small cell or box for hours at a time.

* In some cases, suspects were threatened. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks, was told that if anything else happens in the United States, "We're going to kill your children."

* Guns and other implements were sometimes used. Abd Al-Rahim Al-Nashiri, a suspect in the 2000 USS Cole bombing, was confronted by a debriefer who racked handgun once or twice close to his head without telling him it was unloaded. Another time, when he was hooded and naked, a debriefer entered his cell and revved a power drill in an attempt to frighten him.

* One mock execution was used, also on Al-Nashiri, when guards paraded another man apparently shot dead outside his cell. The report said that technique "was transparently a ruse and no benefit was derived from it."

* Mohammed was subjected to waterboarding more than 180 times, in a manner that was inconsistent with the method approved by government officials. Another terrorism suspect, Abu Zubaydah, was subjected to waterboarding at least 83 times.

* An interrogator allegedly applied pressure to certain points on a detainee's body in which the individual would nearly pass out before being shaken awake.

(Reporting by Jeremy Pelofsky; Editing by Cynthia Osterman)

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