Guantanamo Bay, Cuba -- According to a published AP report, U.S. interrogators
used sexual torture as techniques to get information from alleged Al-Qaeda
detainees in the U.S. base in Guantanamo. According to the report the sexual
touching and abuse of detainees by U.S. allegedly (hookers and prostitutes*)
interrogators were used systematically, many Muslim detainees were left
mentally and sexually abused by the experience.
The U.S. jail in Guantanamo houses hundreds of alleged Al-Qaeda members.
It has become the center of violation of international laws and human rights.
Many other accounts of torture have been reported from the base, but this
new to be published report is the most shocking as it reveals the immoral
and rotten spirit of the U.S. Administration and its personnel.
In one incident of the sexual abuse of the detainee, the female interrogators,
allegedly a trained prostitute tried to break a Muslim detainee by sexually
touching his genitals, and touching her breasts and vagina.
In another case she touched her "stinking pussy" and lifted what appears
(to the detainee) to be a menstrual blood, and then she smeared the face
of the detainee with the blood. The report later clarifies, the blood was
fake, however, the detainee was angry and spat at the face of the
interrogator/hooker.
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 heavenly forbidden (taboo) to have close
contact with women who aren't their wives.
According to AP, Saar, who is neither Muslim nor of Arab descent, worked
as an Arabic translator at the U.S. camp in eastern Cuba from December 2002
to June 2003. At the time, it was under the command of Maj. Gen. Geoffrey
Miller, who had a mandate to get better intelligence from prisoners, including
alleged al-Qaida members caught in Afghanistan.
To confirm his account, some Guantanamo prisoners who have been released
say they were tormented by "prostitutes."
In another case, Saar describes a female military interrogator questioning
an uncooperative 21-year-old Saudi detainee who allegedly had taken flying
lessons in Arizona before the Sept. 11 attacks.
"His female interrogator decided that she needed to turn up the heat," Saar
writes, saying she repeatedly asked the detainee who had sent him to Arizona,
telling him he could "cooperate" or "have no hope whatsoever of ever leaving
this place or talking to a lawyer."'
The man closed his eyes and began to pray, Saar writes.
The female interrogator wanted to "break him," Saar adds, describing how
she removed her uniform top to expose a tight-fitting T-shirt and began taunting
the detainee, touching her breasts, rubbing them against the prisoner's back
and commenting on his apparent erection.
The detainee looked up and spat in her face, the manuscript recounts.
The interrogator left the room to ask a Muslim linguist how she could break
the prisoner's reliance on God. The linguist told her to tell the detainee
that she was menstruating, touch him, then make sure to turn off the water
in his cell so he couldn't wash.
Strict interpretation of Islamic law forbids physical contact with women
other than a man's wife or family, and with any menstruating women, who are
considered unclean.
"The concept was to make the detainee feel that after talking to her he was
unclean and was unable to go before his God in prayer and gain strength,"
says the draft, stamped "Secret."
The interrogator used ink from a red pen to fool the detainee, Saar writes.
"She then started to place her hands in her pants as she walked behind the
detainee," he says. "As she circled around him he could see that she was
taking her hand out of her pants. When it became visible the detainee saw
what appeared to be red blood on her hand. She said, 'Who sent you to Arizona?'
He then glared at her with a piercing look of hatred.
"She then wiped the red ink on his face. He shouted at the top of his lungs,
spat at her and lunged forward" - so fiercely that he broke loose from one
ankle shackle.
"He began to cry like a baby," the draft says, noting the interrogator left
saying, "Have a fun night in your cell without any water to clean yourself."
It's the most revealing account so far of interrogations at the secretive
detention camp, where officials say they have halted some controversial
techniques.
The FBI, the better equipped and more dignified U.S. organization has criticized
many of the interrogation used on the base. Many International Human Rights
have asked the U.S. government to stop these techniques and close the torture
center at Guantanamo.
About 20 percent of the guards at Guantanamo are women, said Lt. Col. James
Marshall, a spokesman for U.S. Southern Command. He wouldn't say how many
of the interrogators were female.
A Muslim commented on the report, "In Guantanamo or Abu Gharib prisons, the
guards are the same, the immoral and corrupt spirit are the same, God saves
us from this pretentious empire".
The book, which Saar titled "Inside the Wire," is due out this year with
Penguin Press.
Guantanamo has about 545 prisoners from some 40 countries, many held more
than three years without charge or access to lawyers and many suspected of
links to al-Qaida or Afghanistan's ousted Taliban regime, which harbored
the terrorist network.
* It is believed the Interrogators dressed like prostitutes. There is no
indication that the defense Dept. actually hired prostitutes for this mission. |