"The Sexual Humiliation Of Iraqi Prisoners...Was Not An Invention Of Maverick Guards

[Joanne98]

Government apologists are still trying to blame the torture and rape which occurred at Abu Ghraib on "a couple of bad apples".

However, as the Guardian wrote in 2004:

The sexual humiliation of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison was not an invention of maverick guards, but part of a system of ill-treatment and degradation used by special forces soldiers that is now being disseminated among ordinary troops and contractors who do not know what they are doing, according to British military sources.

The techniques devised in the system, called R2I - resistance to interrogation - match the crude exploitation and abuse of prisoners at the Abu Ghraib jail in Baghdad.


One former British special forces officer who returned last week from Iraq, said ... British and US military intelligence soldiers were trained in these techniques...

Using sexual jibes and degradation, along with stripping naked, is one of the methods taught on both sides of the Atlantic under the slogan "prolong the shock of capture", he said.

Indeed, it has been confirmed that the "SERE" torture techniques deployed as official policy by the U.S. government (you know, the techniques developed by the communists to force prisoners to make false confessions) included the routine use of "sexual humiliation" and "sexual degradation" (this also includes the famous leading of naked prisoners around on a leash, as well as religious humiliation and degradation, such as urinating on copies of the Koran).

The forced masturbation of prisoners at Abu Ghraib (which is documented in this video as well as the Taguba Report) is almost certainly a form of "sexual humiliation" or "sexual degradation".

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http://www.opednews.com/articles/-The-Sexual-Humiliation-Of-by-George-Washington-090531-675.html

[patrice]

1. Think about it. Q. If you were so inclined and in a position to do so, what would you say to

your peers and those under you "to end this Hell that all of us, Americans, British, and Iraqis are caught in"?

A. "We need political compliance. What are some ways we can get quick political compliance? How about good old SOP in American politics, Blackmail? Now, what do we have that would be EASY & QUICK Blackmail? . . . . "

Though I'm sure that Plausible Deniability was cultivated, as usual, this

IS

a Systemic trait.