4,
December 2005 Torture
& Mayhem
Recently,
a former U.S. Army interrogator Specialist Tony
Lagouranis, talked about his involvement with abusing detainees in Iraq and
torture carried out by the Navy Seals. The harsh interrogation techniques
including the use of dogs, sleep deprivation, prolonged isolation and dietary
manipulation. Navy SEALS induced hypothermia by using ice water to lower the
body temperature of prisoners. They would often invade homes and torture
residents in front of family members. This included breaking bones and causing
excruciating pain with no real concern with establishing their guilt. Lagouranis estimates the vast majority of
those incarcerated or randomly selected, were innocent and the abuse occurred
to provide Pentagon policy makers with bogus statistics to blunt war
critics. Lagouranis describes a human grave yard in Fallujah consisting of
hundreds of men,
women and children who had been lying in the streets for days and
had been "eaten by dogs and birds and maggots."
Lagouranis confirmed
what Senator McCain and others have claimed, namely the brutal torture of
prisoners did not illicit any useful information and occasionally produced
completely false information which was used to manipulate lawmakers and the
American public.
In the growing scandal of torture
and mayhem in Iraq, we now learn of the existence of death squads within the
Shiite police and special commandos.
I urge readers to express their outrage. We must halt these crimes against humanity.
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