Forced Nudity of Iraqi Prisoners Is Seen as Pervasive

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For over 30 years Israel and the US have used time-tested torture practices devised by the British.

The British Army pioneered these methods way back in 1971, using them against the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and the Irish people. According to one of the world's most respected, and underrated, human rights groups B'Tselem (btselem.org), in 1971 British security forces in Northern Ireland used coercive interrogation methods against fourteen IRA suspects.
These methods were known as the five techniques and surfaced in a legal proceeding known as Ireland versus the United Kingdom. The five pillars of torture include the following:

 Wall-Standing: Forcing the detainees to remain for periods of some hours in a "stress position," described by those who underwent it as being "spread-eagled against the wall, with their fingers put high above the head against the wall, the legs spread apart and the feet back, causing them to
stand on their toes with the weight of the body mainly on the fingers.

 Hooding: Putting a black or navy colored bag over the detainees' heads and, at least initially, keeping it there all the time except during interrogation.

 Subjection to Noise: Pending their interrogations, holding the detainees in a room where there was a continuous loud and hissing noise.

 Deprivation of Sleep: Pending their interrogations, depriving the detainees of sleep.

 Deprivation of Food and Drink: Subjecting the detainees to a reduced diet during their stay at the center and pending interrogation.

The United States and Israel have brutally refined British practices adding cultural torture. For prisoners in Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantanimo Bay and Israel's many detention centers housing Palestinian captives, that means assaulting the integrity of one's culture and religion while physically pushing the prisoners to the brink of death. Modifications made by Israel and clearly adopted by the US for the Arab captives include constant references to hetero-on-hetero sex, forcing nude inmates to role-play as dogs and simulate hetero-on-hetero sex, and the common practice of photographing the prisoner in humiliating circumstances so that in each interrogation session the broken prisoner, or his comrades/family, can see how far he/she has been removed from humanity.

Post #158,943 by bluke 6/8/04 4:17:51 AM Reply	Forced Nudity of Iraqi Prisoners Is Seen as Pervasive [link\|http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/08/international/middleeast/08NAKE.html\|Forced Nudity of Iraqi Prisoners Is Seen as Pervasive ] "But forced nudity of prisoners was pervasive in the military intelligence unit of Abu Ghraib, so much so that soldiers later said they had not seen "the whole nudity thing," as one captain called it, as abusive or out of the ordinary." It is clear that what happened at Abu Ghraib was not a few bad apples but was standard operating procedure.
Post #158,948 by deSitter 6/8/04 5:06:22 AM Reply	Sadomasochism - sex is pain and pain is sex -drl
Post #159,095 by a6l6e6x 6/8/04 5:58:14 PM Reply	An where does the practice come from? [link\|http://english.pravda.ru/mailbox/22/101/397/12777_tortures.html\|Pravda]: For over 30 years Israel and the US have used time-tested torture practices devised by the British. The British Army pioneered these methods way back in 1971, using them against the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and the Irish people. According to one of the world's most respected, and underrated, human rights groups B'Tselem (btselem.org), in 1971 British security forces in Northern Ireland used coercive interrogation methods against fourteen IRA suspects. These methods were known as the five techniques and surfaced in a legal proceeding known as Ireland versus the United Kingdom. The five pillars of torture include the following:  Wall-Standing: Forcing the detainees to remain for periods of some hours in a "stress position," described by those who underwent it as being "spread-eagled against the wall, with their fingers put high above the head against the wall, the legs spread apart and the feet back, causing them to stand on their toes with the weight of the body mainly on the fingers.  Hooding: Putting a black or navy colored bag over the detainees' heads and, at least initially, keeping it there all the time except during interrogation.  Subjection to Noise: Pending their interrogations, holding the detainees in a room where there was a continuous loud and hissing noise.  Deprivation of Sleep: Pending their interrogations, depriving the detainees of sleep.  Deprivation of Food and Drink: Subjecting the detainees to a reduced diet during their stay at the center and pending interrogation. The United States and Israel have brutally refined British practices adding cultural torture. For prisoners in Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantanimo Bay and Israel's many detention centers housing Palestinian captives, that means assaulting the integrity of one's culture and religion while physically pushing the prisoners to the brink of death. Modifications made by Israel and clearly adopted by the US for the Arab captives include constant references to hetero-on-hetero sex, forcing nude inmates to role-play as dogs and simulate hetero-on-hetero sex, and the common practice of photographing the prisoner in humiliating circumstances so that in each interrogation session the broken prisoner, or his comrades/family, can see how far he/she has been removed from humanity. Alex Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost. -- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), German philosopher
Post #159,097 by boxley 6/8/04 6:19:13 PM Reply	older than that wall standing was common after the lash was banned by the british army. Prisoners were stood facing a wall and forced to do the manual of arms. The sleep deprivation, nakedness was pioneered by the russians in the lubyanka. The hooding is a british tool because of the overcrowding they didnt have room to move prisoners so they could see no other peisoner. Yhe noise and disasociation in classical russian. The religious aspect was of course the british again all cheerfully used and refined by the Israelis and shared with the US. thanx, bill Anchorage AK: House for sale 3 bed 1 bath 1440 sq feet huge lot near Cheney Lake 175K FSBO 813.273.3518 Time for Lord Stanley to get a Tan questions, help? [link\|mailto:pappas@catholic.org\|email pappas at catholic.org]

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