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February 10, 2005

This does not bother me one bit!

From MSNBC - Detainees accuse female interrogators

Female interrogators repeatedly used sexually suggestive tactics to try to humiliate and pry information from devout Muslim men held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to a military investigation not yet public and newly declassified accounts from detainees. advertisement

The prisoners have told their lawyers, who compiled the accounts, that female interrogators regularly violated Muslim taboos about sex and contact with women. The women rubbed their bodies against the men, wore skimpy clothes in front of them, made sexually explicit remarks and touched them provocatively, at least eight detainees said in documents or through their attorneys.
A wide-ranging Pentagon investigation, which has not yet been released, generally confirms the detainees' allegations, according to a senior Defense Department official familiar with the report. While isolated accounts of such tactics have emerged in recent weeks, the new allegations and the findings of the Pentagon investigation indicate that sexually oriented tactics may have been part of the fabric of Guantanamo interrogations, especially in 2003.

Who cares? So-called "Devout Muslim Men" captured in battle are the kind of fundamentalist Muslims who kill wives and daughters if the women are raped - who think it's OK to beat women if they are not submissive enough - these are the type of Muslims the Taliban are - not allowing women to get medical help and forbidding girls from becoming educated.

I have no problem whatsoever in making them feel icky around women. It's about time they did!

Posted by Beth at February 10, 2005 12:04 PM