Report: U.S. Soldiers Did 'Dirty Work' for Chinese Interrogators

Source: ABC News


Alleges Guantanamo Personnel Softened Up Detainees at Request of Chinese Intelligence

U.S. military personnel at Guantanamo Bay allegedly softened up detainees at the request of Chinese intelligence officials who had come to the island facility to interrogate the men -- or they allowed the Chinese to dole out the treatment themselves, according to claims in a new government report.

Buried in a Department of Justice report released Tuesday are new allegations about a 2002 arrangement between the United States and China, which allowed Chinese intelligence to visit Guantanamo and interrogate Chinese Uighurs held there.

According to the report by Justice Department Inspector General Glenn Fine, an FBI agent reported a detainee belonging to China's ethnic Uighur minority and a Uighur translator told him Uighur detainees were kept awake for long periods, deprived of food and forced to endure cold for hours on end, just prior to questioning by Chinese interrogators.

Susan Manning, a lawyer who represents several Uighurs still held at Guantanamo, said Tuesday the allegations are all too familiar.

U.S. personnel "are engaging in abusive tactics on behalf of the Chinese," she said Tuesday. When Uighur detainees refused to talk to Chinese interrogators in 2002, U.S. military personnel put them in solitary confinement as punishment, she said.

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Bill Clinton started America's practice of outsourcing torture ("extraordinary rendition").

Bush has one-upped Clinton by allowing other countries to outsource torture to America.

God help us.

or does it seem like a new torture scandal breaks everyday now?

“Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes, no heroes, he thought over and over as he writhed on the floor, clutching uselessly his disabled left arm.” Winston winces at the pain of the blow to his elbow, and also at the realization at he his helpless in the face of pain.

George Orwell, 1984

Blame their superiors, aka the Bush administration, for this. Our soldiers are just taking orders.

So says Nuremburg.

Ass kissing, boot licking, order following cowards have always been responsible for the most evil things mankind has done.

Make some real money off of the Chinese in this new business partnership.

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rationalize this one. This is going to be the one that makes the right-wingers squirm.

They've gone too far....