Sgt. Samuel Provance, from the 302nd Military Intelligence Battalion stationed at Abu Ghraib last September.
Posted on 05/20/2004 12:16:43 PM PDT by TexKat
Military intelligence officers at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq directed military police to take clothes from prisoners, leave detainees naked in their cells and make them wear women's underwear, part of a series of alleged abuses that were openly discussed at the facility, according to a military intelligence soldier who worked at the prison last fall.
Sgt. Samuel Provance said intelligence interrogators told military police to strip down prisoners and embarrass them as a way to help "break" them. The same interrogators and intelligence analysts would talk about the abuse with Provance and flippantly dismiss it because the Iraqis were considered "the enemy," he said.
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Sgt. Samuel Provance, from the 302nd Military Intelligence Battalion stationed at Abu Ghraib last September.
congratulations media, we are now fighting ourselves when we should be fighting the enemy.
SO?
OH my gosh. I am so shocked and disgusted....not.
Yeah -- it kind of makes me feel better knowing our intelligence wouldn't submit to PCness. I still doubt it though.
Who was it said "military intelligence" was a contradiction in terms?
A Democrat who protested Vietnam.
This guy was strictly support. He set up computer networks and that was all. He say that he was told this by others. This is very lame and questionable at best. The press grabs for straws.
John Kerry? :-)
Someone who didn't have a clue.
Their support for Kerry leaves them little choice.
I agree. The American people are being duped into abandoning the Iraqis to chaos, civil war, terrorism, and ultimately worse abuse and despotism. Just like Southeast Asia. the liberals and media care absolutely ZERO for the Iraqis. They care only about a U.S. defeat.
So Sgt Provence does whatever someone tells him to do? I doubt this is his idea. It sounds like the idea of his civilian attorney who wants to try to invalidate all his training concerning legal and illegal orders to get him off the hook. Guess what? It won't work.
"strip down" and "embarrass" - that I can believe.
"naked homo pyramid" and "forced sodomy" still sounds like the invention of some sicko guard however.
You're right of course, but if this was directed by higher-ups, surely the grunts shouldn't be the only ones taking the fall.
Actually... I think the whole thing is blown way out of proportion - Humiliated Iraqi Prisoners?? Ohh the inhumanity! </sarc
The guy is a computer programmer. He witnessed nothing and all his statements are hearsay only.
Guaranteed this is a put up job and he's a flaming Democrat.
Sgt. Putz?
"Sgt. Provance?', said the President. 'I understand you're to be torturing Iraqis today. I just thought I'd mention that they hate that underwear trick. Be sure to use that one, OK? Anybody asks you where you came up with such a great idea, tell 'em it was me, right? That one is my idea -- and don't you forget it! Have a great day.'"
This is their defense? They are gonna have to do better than this or they're gonna need Johnny Cochran to start slinging the BS around to make this strategy work.
I also find it interesting that this admission was buried deep in the article. It's probably the pivot around which this whole case will turn:
Did you have orders? No.
< Gavel Bangs > GUILTY!
But, but....!
Does anyone realize what they are doing by suggesting that we must be completely nice to these people?
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