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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Gawd, that made me loose my appetite.
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Well today takes the cake as I just read Paisley Dodd's AP piece which says: "About 10,000 Haitians gathered at the palace hours after celebrating New Year's Day with fireworks crackling, shots ringing out and drums pulsing in the darkness." What Palace was she at, pray tell?
The same Paisley Dodds that Karshan spoke of filed a January 2 Associated Press report on the bicentennial celebrations that failed to include a single quote from President Aristide, visiting South African President Thabo Mbeki, or any member of over a dozen official foreign delegations. Instead, the despicable Dodds provided her global platform to Andy Apaid Jr., a leader of the U.S.-backed opposition. President Mbeki’s visit “brought oxygen to a dying dictatorship" said Apaid, the corrupt business oligarch. The Washington Post ran Dodds’ story under the headline, “Haiti Opposition Demands Aristide Resign” – as if that were news!
I'm sorry but this still doesn't add up to say a beheading! I'm also getting sick of hearing what their "religion" does and doesn't allow. I guess the only sure thing I know that it allows is beheading - that's ok and flying planes into buildings.
...they called it basic training. (P.S. many nights I dreamed of "THE" miniskirt torture)
this is torture? maybe they should have them watch gay sex 24/7! (well it's an alternative lifestyle isn't it? can't be harmful is it??)
When they first brought the prisoners to Gitmo, there were stories of the inmates glaring at female guards while masturbating. Any image of these animals as pure and holy is total hype. The Taliban committed rapes, as do the holy men in Iran. In their eyes, these transgressions can be blamed on the women, so women are often violated then punished for causing it. While I'm sure they're not all like that, it's likely that any who show any sexual restraint are rare.
"maybe they should have them watch gay sex 24/7!"
These terrorist perverts would probably enjoy that!
>>>>Spare me... They call this torture!!!
Could be - if the chick in the thong looked like Michael Moore....
I don't believe a word of this shiite muslime crapola.
I hope they didn't let them see the half time show from last years' Superbowl. Or Ashlee Simpson. That WOULD be over the line!
is it true that they show snuff films on Al Jazzera?
I remember many reports in earlier days about Gitmo prisoners masturbating to try to intimidate the female guards, which really makes me question this report by former Army Sgt. Erik R. Saar. Just how did AP get this manuscript that's supposedly classified pending Pentagon review? I hope this doesn't turn out to be another incident of aberrant behavior that the media will use to tarnish all our military with the same perverse brush, a la Private Lynnie Englund.
Dr. 'Atiya: I laughed at the claim that an honorable man doesn't beat [his wife], because only an honorable man would beat her. A man with no honor would beat his wife in a way I'd call "barbaric." There are disciplinary beatings that are permitted by Islam, which are practiced by honorable men.
This is outrageous. How can I get imprisioned there? I won't talk until they have gone through their entire routine, twice.
Does "female civilian contractor" doing interogation on suspected terrorists make sense?
Some other things needed, A hacksaw, A Count Dracula costume, Mike Tyson, Fran Drescher, and the entire cast of a Mexican Soap Opera
These Muslim fanatics hate empowered women. Frankly, I find it amazing the level of torture at Guantanamo only amounts to a lap dance or one's personal strip show.
This is torture? Dang! Perhaps I should get my money back from that stripper ...
Oh, boo hoo! As usual, the MSM will look for anything to demonize the US military but turn a blind eye towards the real human rights abusers of the world like the leaders of China, North Korea, Sudan, Zimbabwe, Syria, Iran and a dozen other despots.
Come to think of it, since these monsters are guided by religious fanaticism, why not get pig carcasses, place them inside and tell them they are going to be die while in direct contact with what they consider unclean if they won't talk? This will guarantee they won't enter into paradise with their 72 virgins.
But then, the MSM, the leftists, liberals and Democrats, to say nothing of the foreign press will be outraged. Those wicked American Republicans!
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