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Guantanamo translator describes how female interrogators used sexual tactics to weaken Muslim...
AP ^ | 1/27/5 | PAISLEY DODDS

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: boohoohoo; crymeariver; gauntanamo; guantanamo; interrogations
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1 posted on 01/27/2005 12:36:24 PM PST by SmithL
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Spare me... They call this torture!!!


2 posted on 01/27/2005 12:38:52 PM PST by Toidylop
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To: SmithL

maybe Ann Coulter should be sent down there...


3 posted on 01/27/2005 12:39:09 PM PST by oceanview
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To: SmithL

Oh the humanity!


4 posted on 01/27/2005 12:41:02 PM PST by MonroeDNA (US OUT of the UN!)
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To: SmithL
This is at least the third version of this story I've seen today. Obviously the MSM has their talking point for the day.

Blargh.

5 posted on 01/27/2005 12:41:31 PM PST by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: Toidylop

I've been trying to get my wife to do this for years.


6 posted on 01/27/2005 12:41:34 PM PST by pag_s
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To: oceanview
Where is whats her name crossing her legs during interrogation.
7 posted on 01/27/2005 12:42:16 PM PST by eastforker (Ask me about a free satellite TV system!)
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To: SmithL

" 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!


8 posted on 01/27/2005 12:43:10 PM PST by sheik yerbouty
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To: pag_s

same here... I was told to take a hike every time :)


9 posted on 01/27/2005 12:45:59 PM PST by Toidylop
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To: SmithL

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.


10 posted on 01/27/2005 12:46:21 PM PST by SailormanCGA72
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To: SmithL

Guantanamo interrogator...
11 posted on 01/27/2005 12:49:10 PM PST by Echo Talon (http://echotalon.blogspot.com/)
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To: SmithL

They should of ran some episodes of Deperate Housewifes or Married with Children.


12 posted on 01/27/2005 12:49:40 PM PST by BobCNY
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To: SmithL

So Sexy...
13 posted on 01/27/2005 12:50:47 PM PST by Echo Talon (http://echotalon.blogspot.com/)
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To: Owl_Eagle
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."

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.

14 posted on 01/27/2005 12:53:28 PM PST by HenryLeeII (Democrats have helped kill more Americans than the Soviets and Nazis combined!)
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To: Echo Talon

A warning first please. OMG


15 posted on 01/27/2005 12:54:00 PM PST by Jeeper (Virginia is for Jeepers.)
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To: SmithL

Hell, if that's torture, I want in!


16 posted on 01/27/2005 12:54:09 PM PST by TheRatHunter
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To: Echo Talon

For some reason the Unknown Comic comes to mind. You know... with the bag over the head.


17 posted on 01/27/2005 12:54:10 PM PST by duckman (I refuse to use a tag line...I mean it.)
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To: TheRatHunter

this is just good,series stategery.


18 posted on 01/27/2005 12:55:11 PM PST by Rakkasan1 (john f'n kerry-the original 'million dollar baby'.)
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To: Jeeper

Can you imagine it? Janet Reno in a thong? I would claw my own eyes out.


19 posted on 01/27/2005 12:55:51 PM PST by FearlessFreep
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To: FearlessFreep

20 posted on 01/27/2005 1:01:14 PM PST by maggief
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