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[GM Strong]

[coldwarvet]

We have over 150,000 troops in a very violent war zone. Most of them are in their late teens and early 20's. This is the age when hormones are at the highest levels. Yes, there is abuse when a society of this demographic is created. On any of our liberal University campuses we can find outrageous behavior and how much time does the MSM spend on these occurrences. So a handful of the 150,000 who behaved badly and the MSM can't get enough of the handful while the accomplishments of the 150,000 are largely ignored.

This thing is so out of context. Just because John Kerry might have killed a young child does not make all who served in Vietnam baby killers.

CWV
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[GM Strong]

I've changed my mind, maybe 10 years isn't enough as the damage includes possible loss of life for our own due to the stupidity of some self serving jerks.


Why Iraq prisoners
no longer talking
Sources blame Abu Ghraib scandal, weakness of female interrogators

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Posted: January 18, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern

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© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

U.S. military interrogators in Iraq tell Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin prisoners are doing far less talking since the publicity of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal and the crackdown on harsh techniques used in questioning them.

"Do you want to know why there are so many successful attacks – attacks that are not averted because of good intelligence?" asked one military source familiar with the situation. "Because we're getting next to nothing out of the prisoners. Our information flow has dried up."

That's the story told by several military sources, all of whom work closely with prisoners or interrogators.


But some counterintelligence analysts in Baghdad see other problems with recent interrogations.

A memo obtained by the premium, weekly, online intelligence newsletter G2 Bulletin, published by WND, from a source in Centcom reveals the general ineffectiveness of female interrogators in Iraq.

"(Female) interrogation techniques are ineffective because they fail to provide useful information, and the detainees, once released, communicate to other (insurgent) personnel that there is nothing to be afraid of from (female) interrogators: just maintain your innocence and give no information and they will release you in 72 hours," said the memo.

However, there are exceptions, the memo suggests. Women interrogators at Abu Ghraib and some other detention facilities use more effective techniques. As a result, the terrorists have specifically targeted these women for attacks.

The memo says there have been at least three documented reports in the last month of captured insurgents stating that female interrogators are not effective because they do not threaten or intimidate the prisoners.

Last spring, in a story on Iraq headlined, "U.S. losing 'hearts, minds,'" WND reported that the Army was switching to kinder, gentler interrogation tactics of Iraqi detainees. This was before several U.S. guards at a Baghdad prison recently were criminally charged with abusing detainees.

At that time, Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, the top U.S. commander in Iraq put limits on harsh questioning tactics. Sanchez passed around a memo saying interrogators could use no harsh techniques – no "Mutt-n-Jeff" approaches or any "pride-and-ego-down" approaches – without his permission, said the official, who asked not to be identified.

"Mutt-n-Jeff" refers to a good-cop, bad-cop routine to pry information out of a detainee. And "ego down" involves deflating a defiant detainee whose pride is his armor against questioning.

WND also first reported – even before the war started – the shortage of those trained to be military police and Arabic-language interrogators. The military brass now says the prison abuse in part stemmed from these shortages.
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[Me#1You#10]

In due course, interrogation of prisoners will be handled by Iraqi intelligence services. I presume that their interrogation techniques will be somewhat less attuned to the sensitivities of Ms. Mapes, SeeBS News, the Senator Durbins and the defeatists of MSM.

A nice overview in today's WSJ....

[AMOS]

Kinda sounds to me, if there ain't nothing to fear the sand gooks ain't gonna talk.