AP Still Looking for Another Abu Ghraib

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Thu Jan 27, 2005 at 2:32 pm PST • Views: 112

The Associated Press got their paws on a Pentagon document classified “secret,” detailing purported interrogation techniques at Guantanamo Bay.

And as usual when the mainstream media vampires get hold of such a story, a secret document with the potential to further damage our ability to effectively interrogate terrorists and enrage the Arab street even more than it already is, the AP immediately trumpets it to the world in the most lurid way possible: Guantanamo Soldier Details Sexual Tactics.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Female interrogators tried to break Muslim detainees at the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay by sexual touching, wearing a miniskirt and thong underwear and in one case smearing a Saudi man’s face with fake menstrual blood, according to an insider’s written account.

A draft manuscript obtained by The Associated Press is classified as secret pending a Pentagon review for a planned book that details ways the U.S. military used women as part of tougher physical and psychological interrogation tactics to get terror suspects to talk.

It’s the most revealing account so far of interrogations at the secretive detention camp, where officials say they have halted some controversial techniques.

“I have really struggled with this because the detainees, their families and much of the world will think this is a religious war based on some of the techniques used, even though it is not the case,” the author, former Army Sgt. Erik R. Saar, 29, told AP.

Guess what, Army Sgt. Saar? The detainees and their families already have no doubt whatsoever that this is a religious war. They’re at Gitmo because they’re jihadis, you fool, and they are by their very nature waging a religious war.

Aaarrrgghhh. This kind of thing just makes me want to scream, “Wake up!” All I can hope is that the American public sees through mainstream media’s constant, ongoing attempt to turn our own people into the villains, with these ridiculous, overheated, almost comically exaggerated “torture” stories.

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