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January 28, 2005
Gotsta' Gitmo
In a shocking development, Dave from Garfield Ridge has confessed to aiding the Taliban during the '01 invasion.
He is now being held without trial at Guantanamo Bay. Reportedly with a huge grin on.
A draft manuscript obtained by The Associated Press is classified as secret pending a Pentagon
review for a planned book that details ways the U.S. military used
women as part of tougher physical and psychological interrogation
tactics to get terror suspects to talk.
Saar said he witnessed about 20
interrogations and about three months after his arrival at the remote
U.S. base he started noticing "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 taboo to have close contact with women who aren't their
wives.
...
Some Guantanamo prisoners who have been released say they were tormented by "prostitutes."
...
In another case, Saar describes a female
military interrogator questioning an uncooperative 21-year-old Saudi
detainee who allegedly had taken flying lessons in Arizona before the
Sept. 11 terror attacks. Suspected Sept. 11 hijacker Hani Hanjour
received pilot instruction for three months in 1996 and in December
1997 at a flight school in Scottsdale, Ariz.
"His female interrogator decided that she
needed to turn up the heat," Saar writes, saying she repeatedly asked
the detainee who had sent him to Arizona, telling him he could
"cooperate" or "have no hope whatsoever of ever leaving this place or
talking to a lawyer.'"
The man closed his eyes and began to pray, Saar writes.
The female interrogator wanted to "break
him," Saar adds, 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.
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 America we don't call this torture, we call it VIP.
I'm not sure we'll ever see Dave again.
More here, here, and here.
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