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This is the second in a series following a media event at the Intelligence Center on Fort Huachuca on Wednesday. Herald/Review FORT HUACHUCA — Interrogator training on this post has gone from fewer than 300 students a year in 2002 to an expected high of more than 1,500 in two years. The critical need for human intelligence collectors, commonly called interrogators, has increased since the terrorist attacks on the United States on Sept. 11, 2001. That day of terror began the Army’s need “to significantly increase the size of its humit (human intelligence) capabilities,” said Maj. Gen. Barbara Fast, who...

The UN is honoring one of the interrogators of our Americans held hostage for 444 days in 1980. Click on the link above.

11/23/2005 - WASHINGTON -- More than 90 Airmen stood next to Soldiers when the first “bluesuiter” graduated from the U.S. Army Intelligence Center’s interrogator school at Fort Huachuca, Ariz. The Airmen -- with youth ministers and Scout leaders in their midst -- graduated Nov. 10. The Airmen volunteered after the Army asked the Air Force to help it meet its continuing need for qualified interrogators. “[I volunteered for this] because I wanted to go out, talk to the bad guys and really make an impact by getting information and details needed to fight the global war on terrorism,” said Will,...

'Cause they stand on a wall. And they say "Nothing's gonna hurt you tonight. Not on my watch." Guantanamo prisoners are treated nicer than U.S. Navy SEALs in training. I support Guantanamo Prison policies. www.MoveOnYourself.com Hypocracy in Action.

Newsweek has retracted the story, but the damage is already done. Like many Arabs and Muslims, I believe the incident did take place. I read reports in Arab media of similar incidents long before Newsweek's article came out. [. . .] I can't speak for all Arab Americans, but I do find it difficult to believe the administration's denials. It has a long track record of telling whoppers that would make Pinocchio's nose longer than an elephant's trunk. This leadership fabricated stories to promote foreign military adventures as well as harass and imprison innocent people. It currently promotes torture and...

FORT HUACHUCA - If military intelligence soldiers were part of the Iraqi prisoner abuse, they have violated the tenets of what is being taught at the Army's Intelligence Center, Spc. Jason Hickman said Wednesday. If it is found to be true, "it's a blemish on MI (military intelligence)," said the 30-year-old soldier who is a week away from graduating as a human intelligence collector, better known as an interrogator. Physical and mental torture is not what is being taught on the fort, Hickman said during a break in a weeklong field training exercise where he and other soldiers use what...