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| 2004-05-20 |
| US troops in Afghanistan have written permission to use threats, dogs and the firing of mortars near prisoners to help extract information during interrogations, a German news weekly reported on Tuesday. The magazine said one of its reporters had found and taken photographs of the documents at a US military base in southeastern Afghanistan. The directives also allowed "sensory overload," the use of loud noise or music, "use of warm or cold temperatures, long interrogation sessions, threats of transfer to the US detention center in Guantanamo Bay, and sleep deprivation to weaken prisoner resistance." Stern quoted a passage from the documents saying "prisoners have a right to at least four hours sleep per day ... regardless of how this time is divided up". |
| Posted by:Long Hair Republican |
| #12 "He says I can't do that to him, sir." "Show him your note, corporal." |
| Posted by: tu3031 2004-05-20 4:26:26 PM |
| #11 No, rhodesiafever; they talk about honor a lot, but don't actually have any. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2004-05-20 3:42:48 PM |
| #10 Maybe these are the same guys (+ a few extra) that elAdam in-Sane released as he realised his days were numbered. Let's just tell them, "Two strikes and you're out, this aint California, and you'll never get there. Put those panties on your head". Soon it will be "One strike and you are Out". Bring on the dogs in Wonder-bra's. BTW, we used to carry a spare round around our necks, 7.62 (long), just in case. Have these guys no honour to do the decent thing before they get captured? |
| Posted by: rhodesiafever 2004-05-20 3:24:40 PM |
| #9 "it will be a cold day in hell before I take a "tsk, tsk" from the Germans on how to treat prisoners." -just mention "Malmady" and that should pretty much shut them the f*ck up. |
| Posted by: Jarhead 2004-05-20 2:13:56 PM |
| #8 Oh heavens! We are trying to coerce prisoners? The next thing you'll tell me is that our soldiers are using real live ammo while we are in a war zone. it will be a cold day in hell before I take a "tsk, tsk" from the Germans on how to treat prisoners. |
| Posted by: Frank Martin 2004-05-20 1:55:02 PM |
| #7 prisoners have a right to at least four hours sleep per day Four hours of sleep = 240 minutes/day - 10 minutes / hour so: Each half hour : 5 minutes asleep. 25 minutes awake. the use of loud noise or music Again, the William Hung option. IT WON'T TAKE LONG. Now that we have a method to handle annoying German reporters, what do we do about those pesky al-Qaedas |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-05-20 11:47:08 AM |
| #6 The directives also allowed "sensory overload," the use of loud noise or music, "use of warm or cold temperatures, long interrogation sessions, threats of transfer to the US detention center in Guantanamo Bay, and sleep deprivation to weaken prisoner resistance." Stern quoted a passage from the documents saying "prisoners have a right to at least four hours sleep per day ... regardless of how this time is divided up". Except for the trip to Cuba it sounds like my last flight to LA. |
| Posted by: Dan 2004-05-20 11:22:22 AM |
| #5 JIB - ouch! |
| Posted by: B 2004-05-20 10:41:01 AM |
| #4 If the US wouldnt be doing these to extract information, I would be upset! |
| Posted by: busybody 2004-05-20 9:54:30 AM |
| #3 But, unlike the Germans, we are not allowed to stick them in ovens. |
| Posted by: Jack is Back! 2004-05-20 8:46:16 AM |
| #2 "The magazine said one of its reporters had found and taken photographs of the documents at a US military base in southeastern Afghanistan." um, okay, sure. Major breach of security if some German reporter just happened along secret documents. If so, who cares. I'd take it much further w/these assholes. Abu Ghraib would like club f'n med compared to the shit a bunch of Drill Instructors could think up for terrorists. |
| Posted by: Jarhead 2004-05-20 8:39:57 AM |
| #1 None of this is anything like what was done at Abu Ghraib, and none of it's at all controversial. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-05-20 8:25:55 AM |