Thursday, July 08, 2004

Israeli interrogators at Abu Ghraib

The respected journal of military affairs, Jane's, is reporting that Israeli Shin Bet interrogators were used by the Americans at Abu Ghuraib. A twist: the article maintains that the US chose them because they were less likely to use heavy-handed torture techniques than secret police from US allies like Egypt and Jordan. Of course, it all depends on what you mean by torture.
  Juan Cole post

At least one aspect of the occupation of Iraq was well planned by Washington. The USA needed help conducting mass interrogations of Arabic-speaking detainees. Foreign Report can now reveal that, to make up for this shortfall, the USA employed Israeli security service (Shin Bet) experts to help their US counterparts 'break' their captives.

...US sources say that in spite of the incidences of abuse in Abu Ghraib prison, such events are not representative of the sophisticated methods that Shin Bet used in Iraq.
  Janes article

Can now reveal.

Is anybody keeping track of how many things that have been denied, denied, denied by our government at long last "can now be revealed?"

So, then if it's true that Shin Bet has more "sophisticated methods" (which the article implies are psychological), then Rumsfiend and the brute squad must have decided Shin Bet's methods weren't working well enough or fast enough. Or perhaps the order to "soften up" the detainees to prepare them for interrogation is just another facet of the interrogation as a whole.

Or perhaps there's still something waiting for a time when it "can be revealed".

....hey, do what you want....you will anyway.

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