   New Prison Torture Stories
linkyquote:WASHINGTON (AP) - Several U.S. guards allege they witnessed military intelligence operatives encouraging the abuse of Iraqi prison inmates at four prisons other than Abu Ghraib, investigative documents show. Court transcripts and U.S. army investigator interviews provide the broadest view of evidence that abuses, from forcing inmates to stand on burning hot coals to crudely castrating them, occurred at a U.S. marine detention camp and three army prison sites in Iraq besides Abu Ghraib. That is the prison outside Baghdad that was the site of widely published and televised photographs of abuse of Iraqi detainees by Army troops. Testimony about tactics used at a U.S. marine prisoner of war camp near Nasiriyah also raises the question whether coercive techniques were standard procedure for military intelligence units in different service branches and throughout Iraq. At the U.S. marines'' Camp Whitehorse, the guards were told to keep enemy prisoners of war - EPWs, in military jargon - standing on burning coals for up to 10 hours. They would then be interrogated by "human exploitation teams," or HETs, comprising intelligence specialists. "That technique was used to break down the EPWs and make it easier for the HET member to get information from them," marine Cpl. Otis Antoine, a guard at Camp Whitehorse, testified at a military court hearing in February. "Our training manuals specifically prohibit the abuse of detainees, and we ensure all of our soldiers trained as interrogators receive this training," Lt.-Gen. Keith Alexander told the Senate Armed Services Committee. But several guards, talking on a condition of anonyminity, have said that following the training manuals isn''t a regularly followed practice. "There are times when the CO gives us a wink and tells us to ''do what''s neccessary''. It doesn''t matter if some people don''t know anything, we don''t have the time to figure that out- American lives are on the line here," says one.I always figured that there was a hell of a lot more going on than what the pictures showed. Think about it logically for a bit; only a few morons are actually dumb enough to take pictures of the abuse, imagine how much went on that no one took pictures of at all! 
  Isolated incidents! Stressed out soldiers! Liberal media bias! BWA. ;  LOL ;  m00 ;quote:Court transcripts and U.S. army investigator interviews provide the broadest view of evidence that abuses, from forcing inmates to stand on burning hot coals to crudely castrating them, occurred at a U.S. marine detention camp and three army prison sites in Iraq besides Abu Ghraib.  Fuck man, if someone were to try and cut my nuts off I''d at least fight back. And what kind of fucking idiot stands on hot coals?   ---------------------------------------------insert flashy image here ;  Uh, you might want to fix that link... ;   America suck and all should die /MindWipe    [edited by - MindWipe on May 29, 2004 11:58:30 AM];quote:Original post by Promit  Isolated incidents! Stressed out soldiers! Liberal media bias! BWA.   what do u expect at least in vietnam they got some leave so they could go to saigon or wherever and get laid or smoke some weed to mellow out!;quote:Original post by nes8bit  quote:Court transcripts and U.S. army investigator interviews provide the broadest view of evidence that abuses, from forcing inmates to stand on burning hot coals to crudely castrating them, occurred at a U.S. marine detention camp and three army prison sites in Iraq besides Abu Ghraib.  Fuck man, if someone were to try and cut my nuts off I''d at least fight back. And what kind of fucking idiot stands on hot coals?    I''m not sure they had a choice... ;quote:Original post by Mithrandir  quote:Original post by Arild Fines   Uh, you might want to fix that link...   What''s wrong with the link?   It leads to a story about a giant mushroom found in Congo.