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Report Alleges Doctors Aided Torture of Terror Detainees

By Alex Chadwick
Published January 5, 2005 at 11:00 PM CST

Did American doctors participate in the torture of enemy combatant detainees in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay? NPR's Alex Chadwick speaks with Dr. Gregg Bloche, a physician and professor of law at Georgetown University. Bloche is co-author of a recent article in The New England Journal of Medicine alleging American doctors may have participated in developing interrogation techniques that constituted torture.

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Alex Chadwick
For more than 30 years, Alex Chadwick has been bringing the world to NPR listeners as an NPR News producer, program host and currently senior correspondent. He's reported from every continent except Antarctica.