New manual for US prisoner treatment

Herald Sun ^ | 7 September 2006

[Aussie Dasher]

THE Pentagon has released a new manual defining the acceptable treatment of US military prisoners, revising an earlier edition from 1992.

The new manual is titled "Human Intelligence Collector Operations" and applies to all US armed services but not the CIA, reported news agency AP.

Its release comes more than two years after the scandal surrounding prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib in Iraq, when photographs of US soldiers degrading Iraqi detainees were made public.

The photographs showed US soldiers smiling besides various prisoners who were naked, chained to leashes and covered in faeces.

The manual prohibits eight of these 'interrogation practices' and authorises three new methods.

Interrogators must not:

FORCE a detainee to be naked

FORCE a detainee to perform sexual acts or pose in a sexual manner

USE hoods or place sacks over a detainee's head or use duct tape over his or her eyes

BEAT or electrically shock or burn detainees or inflict other forms of physical pain

USE "water boarding," which simulates drowning

PERFORM mock executions

[Aussie Dasher]

Well, this takes all the fun out of it!!!

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

[mystery-ak]

Can we still shoot their kneecaps off ala Jack Bauer?...hehehe

[Red6]

"USE hoods or place sacks over a detainee's head or use duct tape over his or her eyes "

Actually thats a force protection issue. Certain people should not be permitted to see your compound. Before you know it, they are targeting you better with mortars, IED's at entry control points etc.

The problem with this gibberish is that these people we are detaining with are no lawful combatants. They are terrorists in the true meaning of the word. They seek to achieve some end through shear terrorizing. Application of the rules of land warfare is nice as long as your dealing with conventional forces. Every civilian Police out there interrogates, in this case the military needs to be able to do this as well. The military is in a quasi combat and policing role and removing all means to interogate will not be helpful.

[NurdlyPeon]

Well, I have faith in the good old American ingenuity of our boys. I'm sure they'll think up some new things that are not on the "specifically prohibited" list.

[GSlob]

As the good book says, "whenever the interrogated loses consciousness, do not get carried away but stop the torture"...

[Cinnamon]

a "technicality"... dems clean their hands with that one all the time... but's a different set of rules for Us, the lowly Americans with Conservative hearts.

[quark]

Of course, in survival training U.S. aviators and special ops personnel are required to undergo, all these things are done to them. Why? Because that's what the enemy will do/does to them anyway, no matter how well we treat their enemy combatant scum.

[tomzz]

The guy in charge of any of these prisons which house slammite terrorists should be a hog farmer, and a cell without (other) pigs in it should be a reward for exceptionally valuable information.