lawrence dennis
01-28-2005, 06:03 PM
Enough to make one sick just reading about it....
[size=4]Female interrogators 'taunted terror suspects' (http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,12080319%255E2703,00.html)[/size]
[font=Arial] [font=Arial]FEMALE interrogators tried to break Muslim detainees at the US prison camp in Guantanamo Bay by sexual touching, wearing miniskirts and thong underwear and, in one case, smearing a Saudi man's face with fake menstrual blood, an insider has stated.
The reports follow claims that Sydney man Mamdouh Habib, who arrived home yesterday after being kept three years in the camp without charge, was [color=red]tied down while a woman dripped menstrual blood on him[/color] :eek: after he refused to co-operate with interrogators. [/font]
A draft manuscript obtained by Associated Press details how the US military used women as part of physical and psychological interrogation tactics designed to make suspected terrorists talk.
The author is a former US army sergeant, Erik Saar, 29, who worked as a translator at the camp in Cuba from December 2002 to June 2003.
He told AP he witnessed about 20 interrogations and said that about three months after his arrival he started to notice disturbing practices.
One female civilian contractor used a special outfit that included a miniskirt, thong underwear and a bra during late-night interrogations with prisoners, mostly Muslim men who consider it a sin to have close contact with women who are not their wives.
Beginning in April 2003, "there hung a short skirt and thong underwear on the hook on the back of the door" of one interrogation team's office, Saar writes.
"Later I learned this outfit was used for interrogations by one of the female civilian contractors ... on a team which conducted interrogations in the middle of the night on Saudi men who were refusing to talk."
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The interrogator wanted to "break him", Saar writes, describing how she removed her uniform top to expose a tight-fitting T-shirt and began taunting the detainee, touching her breasts, rubbing them against the prisoner's back and commenting on his apparent erection. The detainee looked up and spat in her face, Saar recalls.
The interrogator left the room to ask a Muslim linguist how she could break the prisoner's reliance on God. The linguist [color=seagreen][Jew? - L.D.][/color] told her to tell the detainee she was menstruating, touch him, and then make sure to turn off the water in his cell so he could not wash.
Strict Islamic law forbids contact with women other than a man's wife, and with menstruating women, who are considered unclean.
"The concept was to make the detainee feel that after talking to her he was unclean and was unable to go before his God in prayer and gain strength," Saar writes.
The interrogator used ink from a red pen to fool the detainee. "She started to place her [color=red]hands in her pants as she walked behind the detainee. As she circled around him he could see she was taking her hand out of her pants.[/color] When it became visible the detainee saw what appeared to be red blood on her hand.
"She then [color=red]wiped the red ink on his face[/color]. He shouted at the top of his lungs, spat at her and lunged forward so fiercely that he broke loose from one ankle shackle.
"He began to cry like a baby," the report continues, noting that the interrogator left, saying: "Have a fun night in your cell without any water to clean yourself."... [/font]
[size=4]AP: Gitmo Soldier Details Sexual Tactics (http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=589&u=/ap/20050128/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/guantanamo_sex_vs_faith&printer=1)[/size]
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In November, in response to an AP request, the military described an April 2003 incident in which a female interrogator took off her uniform top, exposed her brown T-shirt, ran her fingers through a detainee's hair and sat on his lap. That session was immediately ended by a supervisor and that interrogator received a written reprimand and additional training, the military said.
In another incident, the military reported that in early 2003 a different female interrogator "wiped dye from red magic marker on detainees' shirt after detainee spit (cq) on her," telling the detainee it was blood. She was verbally reprimanded, the military said.
Sexual tactics used by female interrogators have been criticized by the FBI, which complained in a letter obtained by AP last month that U.S. defense officials hadn't acted on complaints by FBI observers of "highly aggressive" interrogation techniques, including one in which a female interrogator grabbed a detainee's genitals.
About [color=red]20 percent of the guards at Guantanamo are women[/color], said Lt. Col. James Marshall, a spokesman for U.S. Southern Command. He wouldn't say how many of the interrogators were female.
Marshall wouldn't address whether the U.S. military had [color=darkorchid]a specific strategy to use women. :mad: [/color]
"U.S. forces treat all detainees and conduct all interrogations, wherever they may occur, humanely and consistent with U.S. legal obligations, and in particular with legal obligations prohibiting torture," Marshall said late Wednesday.
But some officials at the U.S. Southern Command have questioned the formation of an all-female team as one of Guantanamo's "Immediate Reaction Force" units that subdue troublesome male prisoners in their cells, according to a document classified as secret and obtained by AP.
In one incident, dated June 19, 2004, "The detainee appears to be genuinely traumatized by a female escort securing the detainee's leg irons," according to the document, a U.S. Southern Command summary of videotapes shot when the teams were used.
The summary warned that anyone outside Department of Defense channels should be prepared to address allegations that women were used intentionally with Muslim men.
At Guantanamo, Saar said, "Interrogators were given a lot of latitude under Miller," the commander who went from the prison in Cuba to overseeing prisons in Iraq, where the Abu Ghraib scandal shocked the world with pictures revealing sexual humiliation of naked prisoners.
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The Department of Defense has censored parts of his draft, mainly blacking out people's names...
The book, which Saar titled "Inside the Wire," is due out this year with Penguin Press. Guantanamo has about 545 prisoners from some 40 countries... [size=1]Since Yahoo News stories eventually expire, here is an extra link to the same story just above: [/size][size=1]Sexual tactics at Guantanamo? Insider writes of female interrogators trying to weaken Muslim detainees[/size] (http://www.insidebayarea.com/argus/news/ci_2539603)
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[size=4]Female interrogators 'taunted terror suspects' (http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,12080319%255E2703,00.html)[/size]
[font=Arial] [font=Arial]FEMALE interrogators tried to break Muslim detainees at the US prison camp in Guantanamo Bay by sexual touching, wearing miniskirts and thong underwear and, in one case, smearing a Saudi man's face with fake menstrual blood, an insider has stated.
The reports follow claims that Sydney man Mamdouh Habib, who arrived home yesterday after being kept three years in the camp without charge, was [color=red]tied down while a woman dripped menstrual blood on him[/color] :eek: after he refused to co-operate with interrogators. [/font]
A draft manuscript obtained by Associated Press details how the US military used women as part of physical and psychological interrogation tactics designed to make suspected terrorists talk.
The author is a former US army sergeant, Erik Saar, 29, who worked as a translator at the camp in Cuba from December 2002 to June 2003.
He told AP he witnessed about 20 interrogations and said that about three months after his arrival he started to notice disturbing practices.
One female civilian contractor used a special outfit that included a miniskirt, thong underwear and a bra during late-night interrogations with prisoners, mostly Muslim men who consider it a sin to have close contact with women who are not their wives.
Beginning in April 2003, "there hung a short skirt and thong underwear on the hook on the back of the door" of one interrogation team's office, Saar writes.
"Later I learned this outfit was used for interrogations by one of the female civilian contractors ... on a team which conducted interrogations in the middle of the night on Saudi men who were refusing to talk."
------ SNIP -------
The interrogator wanted to "break him", Saar writes, describing how she removed her uniform top to expose a tight-fitting T-shirt and began taunting the detainee, touching her breasts, rubbing them against the prisoner's back and commenting on his apparent erection. The detainee looked up and spat in her face, Saar recalls.
The interrogator left the room to ask a Muslim linguist how she could break the prisoner's reliance on God. The linguist [color=seagreen][Jew? - L.D.][/color] told her to tell the detainee she was menstruating, touch him, and then make sure to turn off the water in his cell so he could not wash.
Strict Islamic law forbids contact with women other than a man's wife, and with menstruating women, who are considered unclean.
"The concept was to make the detainee feel that after talking to her he was unclean and was unable to go before his God in prayer and gain strength," Saar writes.
The interrogator used ink from a red pen to fool the detainee. "She started to place her [color=red]hands in her pants as she walked behind the detainee. As she circled around him he could see she was taking her hand out of her pants.[/color] When it became visible the detainee saw what appeared to be red blood on her hand.
"She then [color=red]wiped the red ink on his face[/color]. He shouted at the top of his lungs, spat at her and lunged forward so fiercely that he broke loose from one ankle shackle.
"He began to cry like a baby," the report continues, noting that the interrogator left, saying: "Have a fun night in your cell without any water to clean yourself."... [/font]
[size=4]AP: Gitmo Soldier Details Sexual Tactics (http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=589&u=/ap/20050128/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/guantanamo_sex_vs_faith&printer=1)[/size]
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In November, in response to an AP request, the military described an April 2003 incident in which a female interrogator took off her uniform top, exposed her brown T-shirt, ran her fingers through a detainee's hair and sat on his lap. That session was immediately ended by a supervisor and that interrogator received a written reprimand and additional training, the military said.
In another incident, the military reported that in early 2003 a different female interrogator "wiped dye from red magic marker on detainees' shirt after detainee spit (cq) on her," telling the detainee it was blood. She was verbally reprimanded, the military said.
Sexual tactics used by female interrogators have been criticized by the FBI, which complained in a letter obtained by AP last month that U.S. defense officials hadn't acted on complaints by FBI observers of "highly aggressive" interrogation techniques, including one in which a female interrogator grabbed a detainee's genitals.
About [color=red]20 percent of the guards at Guantanamo are women[/color], said Lt. Col. James Marshall, a spokesman for U.S. Southern Command. He wouldn't say how many of the interrogators were female.
Marshall wouldn't address whether the U.S. military had [color=darkorchid]a specific strategy to use women. :mad: [/color]
"U.S. forces treat all detainees and conduct all interrogations, wherever they may occur, humanely and consistent with U.S. legal obligations, and in particular with legal obligations prohibiting torture," Marshall said late Wednesday.
But some officials at the U.S. Southern Command have questioned the formation of an all-female team as one of Guantanamo's "Immediate Reaction Force" units that subdue troublesome male prisoners in their cells, according to a document classified as secret and obtained by AP.
In one incident, dated June 19, 2004, "The detainee appears to be genuinely traumatized by a female escort securing the detainee's leg irons," according to the document, a U.S. Southern Command summary of videotapes shot when the teams were used.
The summary warned that anyone outside Department of Defense channels should be prepared to address allegations that women were used intentionally with Muslim men.
At Guantanamo, Saar said, "Interrogators were given a lot of latitude under Miller," the commander who went from the prison in Cuba to overseeing prisons in Iraq, where the Abu Ghraib scandal shocked the world with pictures revealing sexual humiliation of naked prisoners.
------- SNIP --------
The Department of Defense has censored parts of his draft, mainly blacking out people's names...
The book, which Saar titled "Inside the Wire," is due out this year with Penguin Press. Guantanamo has about 545 prisoners from some 40 countries... [size=1]Since Yahoo News stories eventually expire, here is an extra link to the same story just above: [/size][size=1]Sexual tactics at Guantanamo? Insider writes of female interrogators trying to weaken Muslim detainees[/size] (http://www.insidebayarea.com/argus/news/ci_2539603)
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