Mohammed al-Qahtani was forcibly injected with three and a half bags of fluid after refusing food and water in late 2002 at the Guantanamo camp, according to US interrogation logs obtained by Time magazine and released Sunday.

The logs, parts of which are incomplete, detail measures used against a captive at the prison, many of which have been criticized by rights groups.

President George W. Bush said Wednesday he was ready to examine alternatives to the camp for "war on terror" detainees at Guantanamo after former president Jimmy Carter called for its closure.

Al-Qahtani was captured in Afghanistan in December 2001 and transported to Guantanamo.

US authorities then discovered he had been deported from Florida in August 2001 and believe he had sought entry to America to participate in the September 11, 2001 attacks, Time said.

The logs reveal that al-Qahtani was interrogated from early November to early January 2002-2003, during which 16 additional interrogation methods were approved by US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

At one point, al-Qahtani mounts a food-and-water strike and becomes so dehydrated that medics "forcibly administer fluids by IV (intravenous) drip," according to Time.

Al-Qahtani subsequently tells his interrogators he works for Al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden, before urinating in his pants.

After Rumsfeld approved the new interrogation measures on December 2, 2002, interrogators poured water over al-Qahtani, shaved his beard and head and forced him to stand for the US national anthem among other tactics.

He was also subjected to a drill known as an "Invasion of Space by a Female."

"He was laid out on the floor so I straddled him without putting my weight on him. He would then attempt to move me off of him by bending his legs in order to lift me off but this failed because the MPs were holding his legs down with their hands," one log entry states.

On December 7, al-Qahtani's condition deteriorated so badly, he was examined by two doctors.

Al-Qahtani's pulse was found to be "unusually slow." An electrocardiogram, used to assess a heart condition, was taken, and he was hooked up to a heart monitor.

Over the next month al-Qahtani -- his condition improved -- was stripped nude and told to bark like a dog. Pictures of scantily clad women were also hung around his neck. The logs recount al-Qahtani saying he wanted to commit suicide.

Officials told Time most of the intelligence gleaned from the Saudi was recorded in other documents.

In a statement released later Sunday, the Pentagon offered no excuses for its interrogation techniques, saying al-Qahtani questioning followed "a very detailed plan" and that prevention of new attacks justified the means.

"Qahtanis interrogation during this period was guided by a very detailed plan and conducted by trained professionals motivated by a desire to gain actionable intelligence, to include information that might prevent additional attacks on America," the statement said.

In an interview with Fox News, partially released Sunday, Vice President Richard Cheney said there was "no plan to close Gitmo."

"I mean, these are terrorists for the most part. These are people that were captured in the battlefield of Afghanistan or rounded up as part of the Al-Qaeda network," the US vice president said in the interview due to be broadcast Monday.

Bush has said the US applies principles consistent with the Geneva Conventions to "unlawful combatants," subject to military necessity, at Guantanamo and elsewhere.