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Skriven 2005-01-18 08:37:00 av JOHN MASSEY (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av VERN HUMPHREY
Ärende:  torture
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Vern I agree with you that sometimes torture will not get usefull intel 
because prisnors will say what they think the captor wants to hear to 
stop the pain, but stories like this one make me think, when it does 
work, it's worth it.
I would be intrested in your comments. 

Tuesday, January 18, 2005
 
 
FROM JOSEPH FARAH'S G2 BULLETIN
Why Iraq prisoners are no longer talking.
Sources blame Abu Ghraib scandal, weakness of female interrogators
 
Posted: January 18, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern

Editor's note: Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin is an online, subscription 
intelligence news service from the creator of WorldNetDaily.com - a 
journalist who has been developing sources around the world for almost 
30 years. 
 
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com 
U.S. military interrogators in Iraq tell Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin 
prisoners are doing far less talking since the publicity of the Abu 
Ghraib prison scandal and the crackdown on harsh techniques used in 
questioning them. 
"Do you want to know why there are so many successful attacks - attacks 
that are not averted because of good intelligence?" asked one military 
source familiar with the situation. "Because we're getting next to 
nothing out of the prisoners. Our information flow has dried up." 
That's the story told by several military sources, all of whom work 
closely with prisoners or interrogators. 
But some counterintelligence analysts in Baghdad see other problems with 
recent interrogations. 
A memo obtained by the premium, weekly, online intelligence newsletter 
G2 Bulletin, published by WND, from a source in Centcom reveals the 
general ineffectiveness of female interrogators in Iraq. 
"(Female) interrogation techniques are ineffective because they fail to 
provide useful information, and the detainees, once released, 
communicate to other (insurgent) personnel that there is nothing to be 
afraid of from (female) interrogators: just maintain your innocence and 
give no information and they will release you in 72 hours," said the 
memo. 
However, there are exceptions, the memo suggests. Women interrogators at 
Abu Ghraib and some other detention facilities use more effective 
techniques. As a result, the terrorists have specifically targeted these 
women for attacks. 
The memo says there have been at least three documented reports in the 
last month of captured insurgents stating that female interrogators are 
not effective because they do not threaten or intimidate the prisoners. 
Last spring, in a story on Iraq headlined, "U.S. losing 'hearts, 
minds,'" WND reported that the Army was switching to kinder, gentler 
interrogation tactics of Iraqi detainees. This was before several U.S. 
guards at a Baghdad prison recently were criminally charged with abusing 
detainees. 
At that time, Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, the top U.S. commander in Iraq 
put limits on harsh questioning tactics. Sanchez passed around a memo 
saying interrogators could use no harsh techniques - no "Mutt-n-Jeff" 
approaches or any "pride-and-ego-down" approaches - without his 
permission, said the official, who asked not to be identified. 
"Mutt-n-Jeff" refers to a good-cop, bad-cop routine to pry information 
out of a detainee. And "ego down" involves deflating a defiant detainee 
whose pride is his armor against questioning. 
WND also first reported - even before the war started - the shortage of 
those trained to be military police and Arabic-language interrogators. 
The military brass now says the prison abuse in part stemmed from these 
shortages. 

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