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--- Begin Message ----Caveat Lector- http://www.khilafah.com/home/category.php?DocumentID=9498&TagID=1 Sexual humiliation: prolonging the shock of capture uploaded 09 May 2004The west is suddenly aware of atrocities being meted out by the crusader forces in Iraq. A combination of lying politicians and a desirer to burry their heads in the sand has sheltered them from the stark realities of invasion and occupation. Reams of texts and newsprint column inches have little effect on the North American population with a kindergarten mentality. Pictures are what bring the message home to the MTV generation. First it was CBS and then The Washington Post's images telling the truth about the situation in Iraq. They also portent many more horror stories, those of civilians randomly killed and people imprisoned or disappeared without explanation. Desperate families outside jails, waving bits of paper with names and begging for news. The systematic torture of prisoners in Abu Ghraib and elsewhere is symptomatic of the sadistic American regime. The symbolism of the Muslim prisoner on the box is a most accurate and representative image of the US occupation. Sexual abuse and humiliation of naked Muslim prisoners, urinated on and sodomised, and orders from US intelligence to "soften up" victims. All this taking place in Saddam's old torture chamber, business as usual. A 53-page report, by Major General Antonio Taguba, into the treatment of prisoners in Abu Ghraib said there were, "sadistic, blatant and wanton criminal abuses". He listed some of them, "Breaking chemical lights and pouring the phosphoric liquid on detainees . beating detainees with a broom handle and a chair; threatening male detainees with rape . sodomising a detainee with a chemical light and perhaps a broomstick, and using military working dogs to frighten and intimidate detainees . and in one instance actually biting a detainee." The author makes it clear that these are not low level personnel, but high ranking intelligence officers encouraging military police to "soften up" detainees. These are the facts on the ground, but the US President commented that "Their treatment does not reflect the nature of the American people," Indeed, but it is in the nature of the circumstances that Bush has authorised the holding of 10,000 prisoners without trial, many in unknown, secret prisons. "That's not the way we do things in America," he said. This may be the case, but it is the way that they do things in Cuba, Iraq, Bagram and even Gambia. If George Bush is unsure about the American way he could always ask his dad, who used to be head of the CIA. The brains behind the interrogating team at Abu Ghraib was from the CIA. So what is the US intelligence agency capable of? There are clues from that organisation's history that it has found ill-treating detainees to be useful in the past. Two CIA interrogation manuals surfaced in 1997 after the Baltimore Sun obtained them under freedom of information laws. Reading them in the context of the pictures from Iraq and accounts from Guantánamo suggests that the advice they contain is still being applied. The pattern of abuse of Iraqi prisoners follows established CIA interrogation techniques. A gang of reservists from Virginia did not dream up ways of mistreating Muslim prisoners to maximise their humiliation all by themselves. The abuses in Abu Ghraib were no aberrant act, but a product of US policy and the practices of its intelligence community. In emails released by his family, Staff Sergeant Ivan Frederick, a guard at Abu Ghraib, says military intelligence used dogs to intimidate prisoners, leading to "positive results and information". In one email he wrote: "We have had a very high rate with our style of getting them to break. They usually end up breaking within hours." Sgt Frederick said that he queried some of the abuses: "I questioned this and the answer I got was: this is how military intelligence wants it done." It's not just in Iraq that the US is accused of abusing its prisoners. The five Britons released from Guantánamo Bay told of beatings and other ill-treatment. Weeks before last year's alleged abuses at Abu Ghraib, Gen Karpinski said a team of intelligence officers from Guantánamo Bay visited Abu Ghraib to "give them new techniques". A Briton released from Guantánamo alleged that, as in Abu Ghraib, sexual humiliation was identified by US officials as a way of breaking Muslim detainees. In Iraq it was the simulation of oral sex, forced masturbation and human pyramids, with people kept naked for long spells. In Guantánamo, according to one British detainee, naked prostitutes paraded before inmates to taunt them. Of the horrific Iraqi images, the most chilling was the hooded man standing on a box, with wires attached to him. He was reportedly told he would be electrocuted if he moved. According to the CIA manual, threatening him with electrocution may have been better than the real thing: "The threat of coercion usually weakens or destroys resistance more effectively than coercion itself. For example, the threat to inflict pain can trigger fears more damaging than the immediate sensation of pain." However, "if a subject refuses to comply after a threat has been made, it must be carried out. Otherwise, subsequent threats will also prove ineffective." The CIA manual explains what the US military may have hoped to gain by sexually humiliating prisoners. "The effectiveness of most of the non-coercive techniques depends upon their unsettling effect. The interrogation situation is in itself disturbing to most people encountering it for the first time. The aim is to enhance this effect, to disrupt radically familiar emotional and psychological associations ... When this aim is achieved, resistance is seriously impaired. There is an interval ... of suspended animation, a kind of psychological shock or paralysis. It is caused by a traumatic or sub-traumatic experience, which explodes, as it were, the world that is familiar to the subject as well as his image of himself within that world. At this moment the source is far likelier to comply." The events that were caught on camera are certainly the tip if a tragic iceberg. The photos were considered as trophies. The sick demented minds of these Americans thought that these snaps would go well in the family album along with the pictures of their folks standing next to Mickey, Minnie and Goofy on vacation in Orlando. These mementos are analogous to the pictures that American white supremacists took of lynched black men. The Americans took similar trophies when they wiped out Native Americans. It seems that this is their normal behaviour whenever they come in contact cultures that they consider to be inferior to their own. But the Americans are not alone in taking pride in degrading others. The French in Algeria and Morocco used to send home postcards of prostitutes posing sullenly, with breasts bared and skirts pulled up to their thighs, over captions like "Le harem Arabe" or "Fille Mauresque". An article in the Guardian (UK) reported how a young American soldier produced a photo with two Iraqi boys holding up a cardboard sign. They and the soldier are smiling and doing a thumbs up. He is pointing at the cardboard sign, on which he's written: "Lcpl Boudreaux killed my Dad. then he knocked up my sister!" So Lance Corporal Boudreaux, was a soldier on a liberating, civilising mission, demonstrating very civilised behaviour. This behaviour is not merely representative of a handful of deviant loose cannons within the military. The instruction to degrading the people whose land they have invaded came right from the top. Before the start of hostilities in Iraq George W Bush used the phrase "lets go over there and kick some ass." This is really appropriate wording, because this is quite literally what the Americans thought they were supposed to do. That is, capture unarmed innocent citizens strip them naked and brutalise them. Bush is not an intellectual heavyweight, but that same insulting language has been used by neo conservative "thinkers." Both Kenneth Adelman and Paul Wolfowitz have spoken of "snakes" and "draining the swamps" in the "uncivilised parts of the world". The apparently more tempered British use the same base racist language. Tony Blair's foreign policy adviser, Robert Cooper, declared human rights are only for the civilised: "Among ourselves we keep the law but when operating in the jungle, we must also use the laws of the jungle." So the Islamic world, Iraq, is a jungle full of wild animals just waiting to be tamed by being buggered by broom handles. We need to regard the photos coming out of Iraq not as "deviant" or one-offs, but as the genuine sentiments from the heart of America. This is from the heart of the system that is seeking control of the globe. Khilafah.com Journal 20 Rabi al-Awwal 1425 Hijri 09 April 2004 ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Yahoo! 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