Posted on 03/19/2006 11:14:50 AM PST by Crackingham
As the Iraqi insurgency intensified in early 2004, an elite Special Operations forces unit converted one of Saddam Hussein's former military bases near Baghdad into a top-secret detention center. There, American soldiers made one of the former Iraqi government's torture chambers into their own interrogation cell. They named it the Black Room.
In the windowless, jet-black garage-size room, some soldiers beat prisoners with rifle butts, yelled and spit in their faces and, in a nearby area, used detainees for target practice in a game of jailer paintball. Their intention was to extract information to help hunt down Iraq's most-wanted terrorist, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, according to Defense Department personnel who served with the unit or were briefed on its operations.
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The story of detainee abuse in Iraq is a familiar one. But the following account of Task Force 6-26, based on documents and interviews with more than a dozen people, offers the first detailed description of how the military's most highly trained counterterrorism unit committed serious abuses.
It adds to the picture of harsh interrogation practices at American military prisons in Afghanistan and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, as well as at secret Central Intelligence Agency detention centers around the world.
The new account reveals the extent to which the unit members mistreated prisoners months before and after the photographs of abuse from Abu Ghraib were made public in April 2004, and it helps belie the original Pentagon assertions that abuse was confined to a small number of rogue reservists at Abu Ghraib.
The abuses at Camp Nama continued despite warnings beginning in August 2003 from an Army investigator and American intelligence and law enforcement officials in Iraq. The C.I.A. was concerned enough to bar its personnel from Camp Nama that August.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Actually, they will soon be adding an entire new section to the paper. It will be called, "Retractions," and will most likely be several pages in length.
"Queer Eye For The Interrogator Guy?"
They played a few dates at Madison Square Garden a few months ago. My 18 y/o son got tickets (thanks, dad) and is now the envy of all my friends (and myself).
to make the gooks talk.
He isn't going to be doing too many roundhouse kicks after he shoots himself in the kneecap. < /gun_safety_nitpick>
BTW, you might enjoy this:
http://www.compfused.com/directlink/1276/
MSG, huh? Damn Im out of the loop, I thought it was just London..
If I had a killer in my community coming at me intent on killing me, I would dispatch him as quickly as I could by any means possible to me.
Nobody better start quoting "rules of anything" at that point.
I feel the same way about war. If it is not all out kill the enemy as fast and by any means possible, I want no part of it.
So it's not surprising I can't even read crap like this. Handwringing is for prey, not humans.
The number of very useful videos which are made purposely difficult to download to one's hard drive is puzzling.
Why limit the wide dissemination of useful counter-propaganda?
"to make the gooks talk."
Gooks?
When are these SCUMBAGS being prosecuted for treason?!
Are you now telling me they're still alive?
Midnight
one more night without sleepin' -
Watchin'
till the morning comes creepin'.
Green door
what's that secret you're keepin'?
There's an old piano and they play it hot behind the green door
Don't know what they're doin'
But they laugh a lot behind the green door.
Wish they'd let me in
So I could find out what's behind the green door.
Knocked once
tried to tell 'em I'd been there
Door slammed
hospitality's thin there.
Wonder just what's goin' on in there.
Saw an eyeball peepin' through a smokey cloud
Behind the green door
When I said
Joe sent me
Someone laughed out loud behind the green door.
AII I want to do is join the happy crowd behind the green door.
Midnight
one more night without sleepin' - . . .
Saw an eyeball peepin' through a smokey cloud . . .
Wish they'd let me in
So I could find out what's behind the green door.
The presstitutes at the old grey whore have their own "black room" where they conspire with their DNC masters to undermine this country.
It was Ron Bushy of Iron Butterfly drumming on In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
Darn. Now they'll have to go use the other secret room -- I think it's called the indigo room, but I'm not sure.
GOOD GRIEF! LOL
LOVE that graphic!! LMBO!
Oh yeah they do...
Work of the communists in Phnom Penh, Cambodia; victims, with the South Vietnamese and Laotians, of backstabbing and betrayal by Western leftists:
They just don't care is all. If millions of little yellow people, or little brown people, have to be butchered or enslaved, that's not too high a price to be paid (by others) in achieving their goal of chastening and humiliating the United States, and thwarting the U.S. and liberal Western aims generally.
Of course you're probably correct in suggesting that they're unable to contemplate their own destruction. It's nearly reflexive with pampered and protected Western leftists to assume that someone else will always pay the price. After all someone else always has. So far.
Prove it. "
"Whatever we can do to hurt the standing of the United States of America generally, and in particular the standing and credibility of a Republican presidency, we remain at the ready to endeavor to pursue vigorously and to the very best of our ability." ---Official Oath of the New York Times
They could have required that they read the NY Times, but that would have been cruel and inhuman punishment.
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