All eyes are on The Afghanistan connection to Abu Ghraib is supported in part by an earlier CNN And today a report in The Washington Post by R. Jeffrey Smith, “Knowledge of Abusive Tactics May Go Smith writes that the top U.S. commander in Iraq was alerted last November of a plan to use Then the police were to put a hood on his head and take him to an isolated cell through a <\/P> (For further explanation of “techniques to make prisoners crack,” see “The Wink-Wink Rules of How long will it take, if ever, for Rummy boy to accept the responsibility he has so loudly
\nSaturday by The New Yorker, charging that “the roots of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal” can be
\ntraced to Rummy boy’s decision to apply “a highly secret operation” that dealt with Al Qaeda in
\nAfghanistan “to the interrogation of prisoners in Iraq.” <\/P>
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\nreport<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A>, posted Wednesday, that an Afghan police officer claimed he
\nwas “stripped naked, photographed, kicked and subjected to sexual taunting while being held by
\ncoalition forces in August.” These are now familiar interrogation methods to anyone
\nwho has seen the Abu Ghraib photos. The officer’s allegation is currently being
\ninvestigated by the U.S. military. <\/P>
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\nHigher,”<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> also supports Hersh’s story — which is being denied by the
\nPentagon<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> — that a few low-level Army reservists with “criminal
\ninclinations” are being scapegoated to cover up for military leaders who knew
\nwhat was happening.<\/P>
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\nan interrogation method dubbed “fear up harsh” on a Syrian jihadist held at Abu Ghraib:<\/P>
\nAccording to the plan, interrogators needed the assistance of military police
\nsupervising his detention at the prison, who ordinarily play no role in interrogations under Army
\nregulations. First, the interrogators were to throw chairs and tables in the man’s presence at the
\nprison and “invade his personal space.”
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\ngantlet of barking guard dogs; there, the police were to strip-search him and interrupt his sleep for
\nthree days with interrogations, barking and loud music, according to Army documents. The plan
\nwas sent to Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez.<\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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\nInterrogation.”<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A>)<\/P>
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\nproclaimed for himself? We’re waiting for him to fire those at the top who knew what was going
\non and then, because the nitwit in the White House won’t do it, to fire himself.<\/P>
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