Meant to post this here, but accidentally posted it in the Haditha thread. Post in proper thread below.
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According to what leaked info I remember reading, these guys were kept in solitary confinement, often kept awake for days at a time during non stop interrogation, denied water, food and toilet during these interrogations, kept in shackles and such.
Keep any of us awake until delirium sets in, and add those other stresses, then confront us with manufactured evidence or invented testimony from others under the same treatment, and who knows what each of us would admit to.
I am a former US Marine. I served as a grunt for 3 years and as intel for the same. I also received a few months OJT with 2nd ITU (Interrogation Translation Unit).
I have some idea on how easy it can be to break a man down and bend him to be against himself. These people were not in the hands of the enemy and had no reason to suspect that they’d be treated like detained illegal combatants of the enemy.
Review the criminal actions and activities of our NCIS in the Haditha case and then ask yourself what value anything brought forward by any NCIS investigation can hold.
Also ask yourself who’d have reason to keep portraying the one killed as an innocent Iraqi former cop, when it is known that he was a local big man in the insurgency?
Interesting. Link?