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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

Comments

Poor little guys. They're sensitive souls and can't endure such treatment.

Posted by: Dave Schuler at February 10, 2005 2:21 PM

Hey - that's how you treat me alla time!

Can I sue?

Posted by: John of Argghhh! at February 10, 2005 2:22 PM

Power to them (the interrogators that is). Seriously, they completely ignore most of the teachings of Mohammed, and they expect us to abide by them? Please. :)

Posted by: freakchylde at February 11, 2005 10:46 AM

Now now, we must respect the differences in our cultures. We should treat them as their culture dictates. Torture, pain, and agonizing death, are, I believe in order here.

Posted by: MikeTheLibrarian at February 11, 2005 6:14 PM

I agree w/ MikeTheLibrarian. We should be asking the prisoners @ Gitmo, 'Who wants to go see Allah today?' Any volunteers should then be summarily dispatched.
We should also let them know - in case they haven't figured it out yet - that the ONLY way they will leave there alive is to co-operate with us.

Posted by: Tom H at February 11, 2005 6:58 PM