Posted on 04/08/2007 8:24:49 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
THE female British sailor captured and held by Iran has told how her captors stripped her to her panties, lied to her and threatened she might never see her baby again.
Meanwhile, the youngest among the 15 Britons held captive by Iran has told another newspaper that he was blindfolded, threatened, and left in solitary confinement for days by the Iranians, who dubbed him "Mr Bean".
After the defence ministry relaxed its ban on service personnel striking financial deals with media organisations over the weekend, mother-of-one Faye Turney, 26, told The Sun her interrogators taunted her with threats to her life.
"At one stage ... (the interrogator) asked me, 'How do you feel about dying for your country'," she told the tabloid.
"The next day, another interrogator said to me, 'You don't understand, you must co-operate with us. Do you not want to see your daughter again'."
For the first five days of the 13-day detention, Leading Seaman Turney was also made to believe that the other 14 detainees - all men - had gone home, and she was the only one left.
"I was thrown into a tiny little cell and ordered to strip off," she said.
"They took everything from me apart from my knickers. Then some cotton pyjamas were thrown in for me to wear and four filthy blankets. The metal door slammed shut again."
Rival tabloid the Daily Mirror carried an interview with 20-year
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
Since there were no panties put on their heads none of these threats to their lives can be considered torture.
I agree
GIRL they weren’t NO Gentlemans
Please excuse me, but so what. Did she expect a Holiday Express? I am not impressed.
"At one stage ... (the interrogator) asked me, 'How do you feel about dying for your country'"
Her answer?
Imanutjob is starting a new TV show called Iranian Idol. Who will be the next Iranian Idol?
If’n I finds out them cowurds forced anyone to put panties on they’ns haids....
I’m a goin’ STRAIGHT to the UN....!!!
Good question.
Incidents like this really explain why women have no business in combat.
It isn’t about courage, it isn’t about dedication, it is about how captors treat prisoners and the additional power they can wield against female prisoners.
Hi seven!
Hey Stephen I just got online just now
I been hearing report that these sailors weren’t trained on how to be POW just in case the rank the name seriel number
Shocking to think they'd actually LIE to her...
I have heard the same. Not good when you are alone out at sea.
Or even on shore : )
Look at the flip side. Having this woman tell her story to the UK media makes lots of UK women get a new perspective on the war in Iraq, and the WOT in general. The trouble with both the US and UK (and lots of other European countries, and Canada) is too many comfortable people not bothering the consider the reality of the sheer evil these religious-political extremists represents. It’s all too far away from home, and they can’t identify with anyone who feels fighting it must be a high priority. They CAN identify with a young mother being abducted under fraudulent pretenses, stripped, imprisoned under vile conditions, psychologically tortured, and coerced with threats of never seeing her baby girl again.
What did their training consist of? Were they told to point at maps grinning like idiots while agreeing with everything their captors say?
By all accounts that I’ve read, treatment in SERE is far worse.
with threats to her life.
Ok. that's point 1.
"At one stage ... (the interrogator) asked me, 'How do you feel about dying for your country'," she told the tabloid.
He asked her a question under horrible circumstances, but I don't know about it being a threat to her life.
"The next day, another interrogator said to me, 'You don't understand, you must co-operate with us. Do you not want to see your daughter again'."
Again, the circumstances might have been horrible but there's no actual threat involved here. I interpret this as "cooperate with us and you'll see your daughter sooner", not a threat on her life or her daughters life.
Maybe I'm just not interpreting this right, but I don't see much in the way of threat here.
They missed the real transgression here. The poor woman was humiliated to the point of breakdown by not being provided a change of underwear. It’s one thing to have to wear clean underwear on your head, but not having clean underwear on your bottom is much worse.
Ya see, this is the kind of thing I mean:
"I was thrown into a tiny little cell and ordered to strip off," she said.
These are NOT the same thing! Either they stripped her or she stripped herself, she can't have it both ways.
And:
and threatened she might never see her baby again
and
'You don't understand, you must co-operate with us. Do you not want to see your daughter again'."
This doesn't strike me as a threat that she'd never see her baby again.
There's some looseness with words here with double meanings.
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