US uses Jesus as weapon at Gitmo

[babylonsister]

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=8850

January 3rd, 2007
FBI Reports Duct-Taping, 'Baptizing' at Guantanamo

By Dan Eggen / Washington Post

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The reports amount to new and separate allegations of religiously oriented tactics used against Muslim prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. After an erroneous report of Koran abuse prompted deadly protests overseas in 2005, the U.S. military conducted an investigation that confirmed five incidents of intentional and unintentional mishandling the book at the detention facility. They acknowledged that soldiers and interrogators had kicked the Koran, had stood on it and, in one case, had inadvertently sprayed urine on a copy.

The reports released yesterday were the result of an internal survey conducted in 2004 by the FBI, which asked nearly 500 employees who had served at Guantanamo Bay to report possible mistreatment by law enforcement or military personnel. More than two dozen incidents were reported, including some that the government had revealed in earlier document releases.

The new documents were turned over as part of an ongoing lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union.

In them, FBI employees said they had witnessed 26 incidents of possible mistreatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, including previously reported cases in which prisoners were shackled to the floor for extended periods of time or subjected to sexually suggestive tactics by female interrogators.

In a previously unreported allegation, one interrogator bragged to an FBI agent that he had forced a prisoner to listen to "Satanic black metal music for hours," then dressed as a Catholic priest before "baptizing" him.

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[HiFructosePronSyrup]

1. Yes, but their two best weapons are fear, surprise...

and ruthless effeciency.

[melnjones]

2. How many more times can I stand to be horrified by these people!

Holy. Crap. As an American, a Christian, and a human being, that just pisses me the hell off.
It really makes me wonder just how thoroughly planned this stuff was if the dude was even ABLE to dress as a Catholic priest. Geez.

[frazzledmom]

4. Yeah a lightning bolt might have been judicious at that moment

I wonder how many more times they can surprise me with the depths they will sink to.

[TlalocW]

3. How do you inadvertently spray urine on something

Unless that something is in a bathroom, on the same level (or lower) as the toilet, and you have rotten aim?

"Hey, Achmed, nice Koran, but the leather cover's a little dry and cracked. I have some polish here that will help that... Oh, no! I grabbed the spray bottle of urine by mistake! Sorry 'bout that."

TlalocW

[madokie]

5. What really scares me is the realization this is truly a religious war nothing more

theres been religious wars as long as our history takes us back, Thats all this is. sorry

[TwilightZone]

6. That's ok, because God speaks through GWB.

Sadly, this doesn't surprise me in the least.

[Jacobin]

7. They also wrapped one in an Israeli flag

I've about decided that our military guys are fuckwits, from the top (Joint Chiefs wimping out to let Rummy destroy them) down to these fucking nitwitted sadistic assholes

[BuyingThyme]

8. This might be a good time to reiterate that

most or all of these people did nothing wrong.

ON EDIT: I'm referring to the "prisoners."

[lectrobyte]

9. How much lower can we sink?

[twilight_sailing]

10. A little Ozzy never hurt anybody

;)