This story is not, however, credible. I would believe reports of physical abuse (beating, electroshock, hanging from handcuffs, and so forth), sleep deprivation, bright lights all the time, etc. We know the US does these things. But this particular complaint is unlike any "torture" I ever heard of, far too imaginative for Americans, and inconsistent with American puritanism. It sounds like a mysogynistic fantasy.
jks
--- Brad DeLong <jbdelong at uclink.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> >Daily Mirror (London) - March 12, 2004
> >
> >MY HELL IN CAMP X-RAY
> >By Rosa Prince and Gary Jones
> >
> >A BRITISH captive freed from Guantanamo Bay today
> tells the world of
> >its full horror - and reveals how prostitutes were
> taken into the
> >camp to degrade Muslim inmates...
> >
> >But Jamal's most shocking disclosure centred on the
> use of vice
> >girls to torment the most religiously devout
> detainees.
> >
> >Prisoners who had never seen an "unveiled" woman
> before would be
> >forced to watch as the hookers touched their own
> naked bodies.
> >
> >The men would return distraught. One said an
> American girl had
> >smeared menstrual blood across his face in an act
> of humiliation.
> >
> >Jamal said: "I knew of this happening about 10
> times. It always
> >seemed to be those who were very young or known to
> be particularly
> >religious who would be taken away...
>
> Why do these ex-captives hate and fear women so
> much?
>
>
> Brad DeLong
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