Contractor feared U.S. forces more than insurgents

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RENO -- Peter Ginter learned what it was like to be a prisoner of war in combat training exercises, so he had an idea of what to expect last month when he was roughed up, stripped and locked in a 6-by-8-foot cell in Iraq.

But the ex-Marine never imagined his captors would be U.S. military personnel. And he never dreamed they would hand him a Quran and a prayer rug, and treat him like the enemy for the next 72 hours.

"It's just unreal," said Ginter, 30, of Colorado Springs, Colo., the latest to speak out among 16 American and three Iraqi security contractors who were detained for three days in a facility with insurgents after being accused of firing shots at U.S. forces near Fallujah. Ginter said he was kicked, his head bounced off the pavement and his testicle squeezed by a guard during his detention.

http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2005/Jun-19-Sun-2005/news/26734394.html

[Inland]

1. Let's guess at the Admin.'s reason we can't believe this guy.

He hates America? He's really a Muslim? It's been thoroughly investegated and found not to be true?

And you know what really bothers me? Our guys take three days to figure out an American contractor isn't a muslim radical insurgent. And they are supposed to try to tell good Iraqis from bad guys?

What a failure.

[Massacure]

2. Oh Oh, thanks, I needed an article like that.

Some dumbass I know keeps saying that the U.S. military doesn't beat on prisoners.

[Karenina]

3. The enlisted guys are

OBVIOUSLY SERIOUSLY PISSED OFF about the private contract guys. They DO speak a common language.

[JohnyCanuck]

4. He's probably just pissed off

he got the "squeeze the nuts treatment" instead of having one of the sexy female interrogators rubbing her boobs all over him. :sarcasm: