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jakeXT

(10,575 posts)
Sat May 25, 2013, 06:57 AM May 2013

‘Don’t interact, don’t talk, they are not humans’ - Gitmo guard's basic orders

RT: There have been reports of torture and other human rights violations happening at the prison camp. Could you tell us what you saw?

TH: We can begin with experiences I had the pleasure of having. Myself, Eric Sarr and another Guantanamo guard were involved in this. Eric was a linguist and he was working with an interrogator.

We took the detainee into interrogation and throughout the interrogation the interrogator took off her clothing. She essentially gave the detainee a lap dance, tried to arouse him and then let him believe that he had menstrual blood on him. We then took the detainee back to his cell and were told that he was not allowed to have shower privileges nor fresh water for days. The idea behind this being that if he could not clean himself he would not be able to pray, if he could not pray, he could not practice Islam. Essentially it was an idea to break him down spiritually.

Omar Khadr and a number of other detainees, I remember hearing just few moments ago Shaker Aamer, they were privileged to something we called the frequent flyer program, where we would essentially move them every two hours. Whether we were moving them from camp Delta to camp Echo or moving them from Bravo block to Charlie block, be it a little move or a big move, the idea is that every two hours they would be moved and they would not be able to sleep. This was essentially to wear down their psyche and make them more probable to give out their information during interrogation. 

http://rt.com/news/guantanamo-guard-islam-torture-608/





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‘Don’t interact, don’t talk, they are not humans’ - Gitmo guard's basic orders (Original Post) jakeXT May 2013 OP
Well, I didn't know we were getting menstration lap dances for a million an inmate a year. napoleon_in_rags May 2013 #1
We've executed foreigners for pulling this kind of shit. Democracyinkind May 2013 #2
jakeXT Diclotican May 2013 #3

napoleon_in_rags

(3,991 posts)
1. Well, I didn't know we were getting menstration lap dances for a million an inmate a year.
Sat May 25, 2013, 07:29 AM
May 2013

That really changes everything. Government really can offer essentially valuable things for the big money.

Shut this thing down now if you have a brain, congress.

Democracyinkind

(4,015 posts)
2. We've executed foreigners for pulling this kind of shit.
Sat May 25, 2013, 08:07 AM
May 2013

We have it coming.... Wish it would/could change...

Diclotican

(5,095 posts)
3. jakeXT
Sat May 25, 2013, 08:37 AM
May 2013

jakeXT

When the russians treated their own dissents in some way like this - it was deemed torture and an on front to human decency - when the uS do it, it is okay it looks like.. I'm not sure if the russians was treating to have lap dans, or was treating to have menstrual blood on the prisoner - but I do believe the russians could be very good at making sure their dissents, political or other vice was treated as bad as they could possible do to them, when they was in prison.. Often for years at the time...

But again, when the USSR did it, it was torture and an affront to the humanity - and the republicans was the ones who was telling everyone who horrible it was.. But when the US do it, itself - then it looks like it is okay - even recommended for guards, to treat their prisoners as bad as possible.

It is maybe a reason the americans, specially the republicans do not want Guantanamo Bay prison camp closed down - if they was able to tell the truth about this camp - and what have happened there for years now - many high up in the system - both in the armed forces and the Intel, could end up being in front of a court, answering for their crimes... Americans never do wrong - even when they do - they do not do it on "Purpose" you know - do I need a sarcasm tag ?

Diclotican

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