Posted on 01/27/2005 11:27:40 AM PST by pickemuphere
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Female interrogators tried to break Muslim detainees at the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay by sexual touching, wearing a miniskirt and thong underwear and in one case smearing a Saudi man's face with fake menstrual blood, according to an insider's written account.
A draft manuscript obtained by The Associated Press is classified as secret pending a Pentagon (news - web sites) 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.
It's the most revealing account so far of interrogations at the secretive detention camp, where officials say they have halted some controversial techniques.
"I have really struggled with this because the detainees, their families and much of the world will think this is a religious war based on some of the techniques used, even though it is not the case," the author, former Army Sgt. Erik R. Saar, 29, told AP.
Saar didn't provide the manuscript or approach AP, but confirmed the authenticity of nine draft pages AP obtained. He requested his hometown remain private so he wouldn't be harassed.
Saar, who is neither Muslim nor of Arab descent, worked as an Arabic translator at the U.S. camp in eastern Cuba from December 2002 to June 2003. At the time, it was under the command of Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller, who had a mandate to get better intelligence from prisoners, including alleged al-Qaida members caught in Afghanistan.
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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.
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Nevermind that this type of questioning is hardly "torture". If anything, it's almost comical. What infuriates me about these type of "reveal all" books though is that it weakens our ability to interrogate prisoners, and only serves to line the pockets of the the author. Eventually, we'll only be able to ask terrorist politely to give us information, which of course they won't. Lives will be lost becuase of it. I hope Saar is happy.
Pig's blood would work just as well.
I'm glad I didn't know this idiot from DLI. I could write all sorts of books (and ridicule many of the "military action" authors currently on the market who don't know jack). I signed that same agreement not to do it, unlike this jerk who sold his story to the highest bidder.
I think you are giving it too much thought.
Hey, how many people could tell the difference between menstrual blood and non-mentstrual blood? The first clue is crankiness, but without that, how could you tell?
"None of this bothers me, except the menstrual stuff, thats pretty twisted and would bother me if it were true."
I recall one time being chased around the house by my older sister who was wielding a (ah hem) used feminine hygiene product. I was scared and running like hell but she thought it was pretty funny. In any case, there was no long term damage.
If I had a choice between fake blood and being thrown into a shredder, I think I'd take the fake blood. However, the woman rubbing her breasts against my back...I don't know...shredder...breasts...shredder...breasts...shreader...breast. Ok, I think I'd still forgo the shredder.
--used to live in Deadwood-Lead, SD and got lots of exposure to Sturgis--
"Was she hot or did she look like Helen Thomas?"
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
The Horror! Not a good mental picture.
STOP THAT!
Whatever happened to good cop/bad cop...bad cop slaps 'em silly and good cop rescues perp and slips him a ham sandwich? Then the perp hears tables and chairs crashing in the next room and good cop tells him he can save him from that if he'll just give him an address or ph# and he won't tell his buddies he just ate a pig sandwich.
Pork...it's whats for dinner.
"Yep, It's definitely torture...here's a picture of the US contractor used to interrogate the GITMO prisoners in a mini-skirt and thong..."
Oh! Yes, that definitely would be gruesome torture. Yeeecchh!
STOP THAT!
Never again I say! Never again!
I have a set around here somewhere..........
You have GOT to be making this up. LOL
I admit it. I'm weak, I would've cracked under that pressure.....or would you have pressed under that crack????
This is crazy! I guess next we will have war propaganda displaying a woman bent down with her legs spread and underneath it will say "doing it for America".
You know, I dont like the idea of any kind of abuse, bad treatment, or whatever. Heck, I'd prefer we put them up at the Club Med!
But I am a realist, they want us DEAD, we want to LIVE. Gotta do what we gotta do.
I happened to watch the PBS Frontline show this week which I found to be most informative and frightening. There is a large fundamentalist Islam movement in Europe which is and offshoot of the Wahabi sect. They believe it is thier sacred duty to bring about the reinstatement of the Calipahte (the Moslem controlled areas of the 1500's which included much of europe. They think the Koran commands them to do this and that all other rules of Islam may be violated in the furtherance of that effort. They shave their beards, wear Western clothes, drink, eat pork, go to strip bars, even attend Christian churches. Killing innocent men, women, children, Muslim, non-Muslim---makes no difference as long as it is for Islam. Europe is increasingly under threat.
If some piece of shit islamofascist knows where what US city a nuke is planted in and it takes torture to get it will by all means torture the subhuman POS.
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