Posted on 01/27/2005 12:36:23 PM PST by SmithL
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 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.
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Saar said he witnessed about 20 interrogations and about three months after his arrival at the remote U.S. base he started noticing "disturbing" practices.
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.
Beginning in April 2003, "there hung a short skirt and thong underwear on the hook on the back of the door" of one interrogation team's office, he writes. "Later I learned that this outfit was used for interrogations by one of the female civilian contractors ... on a team which conducted interrogations in the middle of the night on Saudi men who were refusing to talk."
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Spare me... They call this torture!!!
maybe Ann Coulter should be sent down there...
Oh the humanity!
Blargh.
I've been trying to get my wife to do this for years.
" I'll talk! I'll talk! But in ther name of Allah just do not put the panties(Rosie O'Shamu's) on my head!
same here... I was told to take a hike every time :)
I'm just wondering if we are supposed to feel sorry for these murdering bastards. At least they still have a complete inventory of body parts attached.
They should of ran some episodes of Deperate Housewifes or Married with Children.
Beginning in April 2003, "there hung a short skirt and thong underwear on the hook on the back of the door" of one interrogation team's office, he writes. "Later I learned that this outfit was used for interrogations by one of the female civilian contractors ... on a team which conducted interrogations in the middle of the night on Saudi men who were refusing to talk."
No wonder these people can't ever defeat us in a war! But somehow I don't think this is covered by the Geneva Convention.
A warning first please. OMG
Hell, if that's torture, I want in!
For some reason the Unknown Comic comes to mind. You know... with the bag over the head.
this is just good,series stategery.
Can you imagine it? Janet Reno in a thong? I would claw my own eyes out.
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