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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."

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


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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To: SmithL

If true, it is stupid. The "24" method is the only way to go.


41 posted on 01/27/2005 2:19:45 PM PST by GOP_1900AD (Stomping on "PC," destroying the Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Take Back The GOP!)
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To: facedown

The average American is thrilled to hear this...believe me.


42 posted on 01/27/2005 2:30:18 PM PST by faithincowboys
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To: GOP_1900AD

Bull. I bet they break in a minute this way.


43 posted on 01/27/2005 2:31:23 PM PST by faithincowboys
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To: SmithL

One female civilian contractor used a special outfit that included a miniskirt, thong underwear and a bra during late-night interrogations with prisoners..

Porn Star? Is so, would she keep it hush, hush? Maybe she'd save it for the memoirs and cash in then.

44 posted on 01/27/2005 2:37:56 PM PST by ml1954
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To: SmithL

My God. The next thing you know they'll build a Hooter's there and force them to drink alcohol.


45 posted on 01/27/2005 2:39:12 PM PST by ml1954
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To: SmithL

I want to see the '60 Minutes' expose on this one.


46 posted on 01/27/2005 2:42:00 PM PST by ml1954
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To: Echo Talon

I'm at a loss for words.


47 posted on 01/27/2005 2:44:28 PM PST by ml1954
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To: Keith in Iowa

Could be - if the chick in the thong looked like Michael Moore....

Or Roseanne Barr

48 posted on 01/27/2005 2:48:21 PM PST by ml1954
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To: SmithL

So what did they do? Show them their buttocks?


49 posted on 01/27/2005 2:49:34 PM PST by Two-Bits (THANK GOD IDIOTS OUT NUMBER THE "REAL" INTELLIGENT & ENLIGHTEN ONES)
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To: faithincowboys

Is it a good idea to give, via an interrogation method, fuel to the fires of anti Western propaganda? If we are trying to say, "we of the Western Judeo-Christian tradition are serious about this war," then I think that the use of something that speaks of hedonism is, while possibly effective for certain interrogations, a really bad idea in the bigger picture.


50 posted on 01/27/2005 3:00:23 PM PST by GOP_1900AD (Stomping on "PC," destroying the Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Take Back The GOP!)
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To: GOP_1900AD
Is it a good idea to give, via an interrogation method, fuel to the fires of anti Western propaganda?

'If this be treason, make the most of it.'

51 posted on 01/27/2005 3:10:55 PM PST by MisterKnowItAll
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To: SmithL
Whats worse, it was probably done in an air-conditioned area.
They hate that AC right smartly.
52 posted on 01/27/2005 3:13:15 PM PST by humblegunner (And who knows what else?)
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To: GOP_1900AD
Their treatment of civilians: aircraft flown into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon; videotaped beheadings.

Our treatment of legitimate prisoners:

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.

I think I'm pretty comfortable with the world watching this one.

53 posted on 01/27/2005 3:16:30 PM PST by MisterKnowItAll
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To: lonevoice

Just how did AP get this manuscript that's supposedly classified pending Pentagon review?

I was thinking the same thing when I read the article! WTH is going on with the Pentagon????????


54 posted on 01/27/2005 3:17:21 PM PST by nuclady
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To: SmithL
Take em to a local Topless Bar and let them drink BEER! LOL

They will talk their ass off.

55 posted on 01/27/2005 3:19:33 PM PST by agincourt1415 (Abolish the United Nations)
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To: nuclady
WTH is going on with the Pentagon????????

It's part of a deliberate coverup. They leaked the MS as misdirection, to keep us from finding out these 'female interrogators' are charging the DOD $1000/hr.

56 posted on 01/27/2005 3:23:55 PM PST by MisterKnowItAll
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To: kcvl

Dodds missed her calling… writing fiction is her strong suit. I don't believe her or this "translator". False claims of so-called torture is a favorite ploy of the anti-war, hate America first crowd.

In a word… bullsheet.


57 posted on 01/27/2005 3:33:35 PM PST by auboy (Dishonesty is NOT a virtue.)
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To: Echo Talon

you are so wrong for posting that image so close to suppertime


58 posted on 01/27/2005 3:42:15 PM PST by King Prout (trolls survive through a form of gastroenterotic oroborosity, a brownian "perpepetual movement")
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To: hocndoc

Only if she's an employee of Jack Kevorkian.


59 posted on 01/27/2005 3:53:40 PM PST by thoughtomator (How do you say Berkeley California in Aramaic?)
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To: King Prout

Come, Come, my Dear... You know you find me sexy. :P
60 posted on 01/27/2005 4:18:45 PM PST by Echo Talon (http://echotalon.blogspot.com/)
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