Sexual Torture at Guantanamo

She started to unbutton her top slowly, teasingly, almost like a stripper, revealing a skin-tight brown Army T-shirt stretching over her chest.

……she walked slowly behind him and began rubbing her breast against his back. “Do you like these big American tits, Fareek?” she said.

“I can see that you are starting to get hard. How do you think Allah feels about that?” she said placing her hands on her breasts. “Don’t you like these big tits?”

……. She started unbuttoning her pants. “Fareek did you know I am having my period?” she said. She placed her hands in her pants as she started circling behind him. “ How do you feel about me touching you now?”

…..she beginning to withdraw her hand from her pants. As it became visible, he saw what looked like red blood on her hand. She hissed, wiping what he believed was menstrual blood on his face.
It may sound like some kind of racy material but no. This was a technique used by an American interrogator (She) on a detainee (Fareek, one of the accused of 26/11) at Guantanamo prison in Cuba.

The details of interrogation techniques and life at Guantanamo prisoner and linguists were revealed by Eric Saar in his book ‘Inside The Wire’ and co-authored by Viveca Novak, a political correspondent of Time. One more black and white proof was presented to American administration by its own Sergeant about mental and sexual tortures of detainees.

It was basically a document submitted by Eric to Pentagon for clearance of his completion of the job was leaked by the Associated Press in 2005. It raised serious questions over US’s 'war on terror'.

Eric initially worked there as a translator for detainees and later helper to the interrogators. Earlier, work was simple as to convey the detainees need to the officials. But working with interrogators was much of a tough job.

The prison had almost all the Muslim detainees mostly from Afganistan and Iraq. Many of them were randomly picked up by Army men and dumped in to jails for years without enquiries, interrogations, lawyers and trails.

The international standards about prisoners were violated many times. In order to break their silence while interrogating detainee's religion was insulted and tried to served his belief.

Some of the interrogators were Muslim and helping the US Government to nail down the truth behind the attacks. In fact, the sexual interrogation technique explained initially was suggested by one of the Muslim linguists. He had said “tell the detainee that she (the interrogator) was having a period and then touch him. That could make him feel too dirty and ashamed to go before God later.”

Bush administration gave a much negative publicity to Abu Gharib prison in Iraq for torturing prisoners after fallout of Saddam but what about the Guantanamo? It is also very shameful and abusing that US military is using females to break the silence of prisoners.

The story doesn’t end there. The treatment given to the prisoners was so bad that anyone belongs to Muslim community would feel disgusting and sympathise towards detainees, despite that they were accused of the terror attack.

The three Muslim linguists were later arrested and sent to prison on the false charges like sedition, mutiny, spying and aiding the enemy.

The story repeatedly indicates that US is fighting no 'war on terror' but it is hatred about Islam. It has already ruined Afghanistan and Iraq in the name of terror and now eyeing Iran and Pakistan for the same.