Being pressured to produce intelligence for the global war against terror, US military interrogators have "improvised" and created abusive measures to break the will of the detainees, according to court documents, a US newspaper reported on Wednesday.

In documents obtained by The Washington Post from the ongoing trial of two US soldiers on the death of a major general of former Iraqi army, there are plenty of vivid examples of such abuses.

The story told by the newspaper Tuesday was about former Iraqi Maj. Gen. Abed Hamed Mowhoush, who was captured by the US military in November 2003 and jailed in a detention center nicknamed " Blacksmith Hotel" near the Syrian border, where he spent his miserable last days.

On November 26, 2003, after a series of intense beatings, Mowhoush was put inside a sleep bag and wrapped with an electrical cord by two US soldiers.

In such a way, the 56-year-old detainee took his last breath through broken ribs.

The sleeping-bag method was said to be the idea of a US soldier edified by childhood tricks, and was endorsed by "Blacksmith Hotel " supervisors as a good way to break the will of the detainees.

Two US soldiers have been charged with killing Mowhoush and two other soldiers alleged to have participated are facing potential non-judicial punishment.

According to court documents related to the case, in the months before Mowhoush's detention, US military intelligence officials across Iraq had been discussing interrogation tactics, expressing a desire to ramp things up and expand their allowed techniques to include more severe methods, such as exploiting detainees' fear of dogs and snakes.

The case is among the latest in a series of probes and trials of US soldiers accused of abusing detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Source: Xinhua