Colonel in Iraq refuses to resign
The attorney for Lt. Col. Allen B. West said yesterday his client will not quit the Army, rejecting a prosecutor’s offer to resign rather than face charges he threatened an Iraqi detainee to gain information on a planned guerrilla attack.
Col. West acknowledged in his e-mail to The Times that he did not follow the rules for interrogation, which prohibit the threat of force.
When two interrogators failed to gain any information, Col. West went to the detention center, brought the detainee outside and fired his 9 mm pistol twice to scare him into talking.
Col. West said the detainee then provided the names of two accomplices and told of another planned sniper attack the next day.Said Elaine Donnelly, head of the Center for Military Readiness: “Excuse me while I go to look up Marquis of Queensberry. No wonder we haven’t gotten any information on Hussein’s present location from all of those ‘deck of cards’ people we have captured. Has the Army lost its institutional mind? Or maybe they have forgotten that a state of war exists in Iraq.”
Why has this story been buried on the news wires?
This makes me wonder just what is happening at GITMO. Have we detained 600+ terrorist suspects and hope they will spill their guts over a cup of coffee or tea?
I could understand if the “suspects” had actually been physically harmed to get information but please.. its a war.. not a tea party..
I wonder what else this “Code Of Conduct” contains? You may not yell in a harsh tone at a detainee? Just what is interrogation?
New Interrogation Style :
Here is a list of multiple choice questions, please fill out the form and enjoy your expresso…
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