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L aw & J ustice
Book Describes Prison Interrogations
Women soldiers
said to use
sexual tactics
(AP) - Female interrogators tried
to break Muslim detainees at the
U.S. prison camp in Guantanam o
Bay by sexual touching, wearing
miniskirts and thong underwear and
in one case smearing a Saudi m an's
face with fake menstrual blood,
according to an insider’s written
account.
A draft manuscript obtained by
the Associated Press is classified
as secret pending a Pentagon re­
view for a planned book that details
ways the U.S. military used women
as part of tougher physical and
psychological interrogation tactics
to get terror suspects to talk.
It’s the most revealing account
so far of interrogations at the secre­
tive detention camp, where offi­
cials say they have halted some
controversial techniques.
Humvee patrols the perimeter of Camp America, the detention
center at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. (AP photo)
“I have really struggled with this
because the detainees, their fam i­
lies and much of the world will think
this is a religious war based on
some of the techniques used, even
though it is not the case,” the au­
thor, former Army Sgt. Erik R. Saar,
29, told AP.
Saar, who is neither M uslim nor
o f Arab descent, worked as an Ara­
bic translator at the U.S. camp in
eastern Cuba from D ecem ber 2002
to June 2003.
Saar said he witnessed about 20
in terro g atio n s and ab o u t three
months after his arrival at the re­
mote U.S. base he started noticing
"disturbing” practices.
Sexual tactics used by fem ale
interrogators have been criticized
Prolific ID Forger Busted
Brent J. G ordon, a highly sophis­
ticated and prolific forger w ho had
been attem pting to hack into a P ort­
lan d area p a y ro ll d a ta b a se , w as
caught and charged on Jan. 14, ac­
cording to law enforcem ent officers
from the Regional E conom ics Crim e
Investigation C enter.
On Jan. 6, investigators seized evi­
dence including computers, more than
200 identity profiles, counterfeit cur­
rency, forged identification, a large
quantity o f check stock, and counter­
feit business and personal checks.
by the FBI. w hich com plained in
a letter obtained by AP last m onth
that U.S. d efense officials h ad n ’t
acted on co m p lain ts by FBI o b ­
serv ers o f “ highly ag g ressiv e”
interrogation techniques, in c lu d ­
ing one in w hich a fem ale in terro ­
g ato r grabbed a d etain e e's g e n i­
tals.
About 20 percent of the guards
at G uantanam o are women, said Lt.
Col. James Marshall, a spokesman
for U.S. Southern Command.
“U.S. forces treat all detainees
and conduct all interrogations,
wherever they may occur, humanely
and consistent with U.S. legal obli­
gations. and in particular with legal
obligations prohibiting torture,”
Marshall said Thursday.
G uantanam o has about 545 pris­
oners from some 40 countries, many
held more than three years without
charge or access to lawyers and
many suspected of links to al-Qaida
or A fghanistan's ousted Taliban
regim e, which harbored the terror­
ist network.
Kevin Casey McDaniel
Nathan Robert Brown
Man Charged in
Street M urder
Portland police say a suspect
in the shooting of another man on
a North Portland intersection sur­
rendered to authorities Thursday .
Nathan Robert Brown, 25, was
charged with attem pted murder
in connection with the shooting
of Kevin Casey M cDaniel, 31.
Responding to reports o f gun­
fire ju st before midnight on Jan.
26, police found M cDaniel with
multiple gunshot w ounds to his
upper body on North Prescott
Street and North M ontana A v­
enue. He suffered critical injuries
as a result o f the shooting.
Nazis Advertise on Rural Road
Adopt-A-Highway sign disgusts neighbors
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“ A m e ric a n N az i P a rty ” h av e
p o p p e d up on a ru ral road a few
m iles fro m d o w n to w n S ale m ,
an d it ’s g o t p eo p le u p se t w ith
th e co u n ty fo r a g re e in g to p ut
up th e sig n s.
“ I know w e live in a free w orld.
But th a t’s not part o f freedom ,
anything to do w ith the N azis,”
said B arbara H am blin, a6 4 -y e ar-
old w ho lives in a m obile hom e
park ju st dow n the road from one
o f the signs.
T h e sig n s w ere ere cte d by
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last w eek that he w as sickened by
accounts that A m erican officials
tortured prisoners at Abu Ghraib.
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