Of course, I am half tempted to wonder where they found vice girls since Camp Xray is pretty resolutely all-male. When a contractor was trolling on the internet for interpreters to help perpetrate "questioning" of the detainees, the first two requirements for the postions were amle and US citizen. 8-(
DoreneC
andie nachgeborenen wrote on 3/14/2004, 8:23 PM:
> Like Doug, I don't think that "What's wrong with
> _them_?" is the first question that leaps to mind
> about people we kidnapped and detained and (possibly
> tortured) without charges or representation for
> several years. Many of those detained and abused may
> be fundamentalists whose beliefs are appalling. I
> wasn't aware that liberals thought that having
> appalling beliefs meant that they forfeited their
> basic rights.
>
> 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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