Humiliate, strip, threaten: UK military interrogation manuals discovered

Humiliate, strip, threaten: UK military interrogation manuals discovered

www.guardian.co.uk

All the British classified training material was produced after the death of Baha Mousa, the Iraqi hotel receptionist tortured to death by British troops in Basra in September 2003. Some of it was created after a UK army inquiry into the abuse of Iraqi civilians concluded, in January 2008, that while a number of cases had been a cause for "professional humility", ill-treatment had not been endemic.

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I just want to share some points in the article that I found interesting:

1. Training materials drawn up secretly in recent years tell interrogators they should aim to provoke humiliation, insecurity, disorientation, exhaustion, anxiety and fear in the prisoners they are questioning, and suggest ways in which this can be achieved.
   
2. they need be permitted only four hours unbroken sleep
   
3. More recent training material says blindfolds, earmuffs and plastic handcuffs are essential equipment for military interrogators
   
4. 1949 Geneva conventions prohibit any "physical or moral coercion
   
5. The abuse, documented by a team of lawyers led by a Birmingham solicitor, Phil Shiner, includes 59 allegations of detainees being hooded, 11 of electric shocks, 122 of sound deprivation through the use of earmuffs, 52 of sleep deprivation, 131 of sight deprivation using blackened goggles, 39 of enforced nakedness and 18 allegations that detainees were kept awake by pornographic DVDs played on laptops.
   
6. The courses were run by interrogators operating within a military unit known as F Branch, part of the Joint Services Intelligence Organisation (Jsio), at the Jsio's Bedfordshire headquarters
   
7. The training material recommends that after a prisoner's clothes are removed, the interrogator ensures he is searched behind his foreskin and that his buttocks are spread. This is part of the conditioning process, rather than as a security measure.
   
8. One lieutenant colonel told the inquiry he took the view that photographs of the mistreatment "would be extremely detrimental to our image", and recommended that a screen be placed around the Jfit facility "so that practices which might alienate the local population were not publicly exposed".
   

Is this what we have come to? ... wow. Please do read the whole article. This does not seem to be one odd case, and it does not seem to be in the lower ranks of the army.

It is this that worry's me, I mean most of the time this is explained away as soldiers gone bad, or that it happens rarely. Well if you creating presentations on how to do it, it can't be that rare.

Again I can't be 100% sure if this is true, but from all the evidence we have so far, you would be a fool not to think something is wrong here.

I don't really know what else to say, other than I hope it is ended, but lets just say I won't hold my breath in faith that it has.

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In his speech today, Sir John [Sawers] said that he was confident that MI6 officers operated with the "utmost integrity" and described torture as "abhorrent".

www.telegraph.co.uk...

The two stories don't match up do they. Great OP, nice find, maybe they will spin it and say getting folk naked, forced stress positions, not much sleep ect does not count as torture- - well I for one do not believe the lies of the UK secret service and it looks like they've been busted, but let me guess, the MSM will fudge it