Army Puts a New Face on Interrogations -LAT

[Rose Siding]

FT. HUACHUCA, Ariz. — In the increasingly crowded classrooms on this weathered Army post, soldiers who have served as medics, mechanics and even Marines are taking crash courses in how to interrogate prisoners.

A nearby field recently cleared of desert brush and rattlesnakes is now lined with dozens of metal shipping containers converted into practice interrogation booths. Banks of DVD burners record every session so instructors can scrutinize their students' false starts, and fail them if they violate the Geneva Convention.

And in the looming Huachuca Mountains, Army engineers are building a facility for field exercises — a makeshift Muslim village where loudspeakers emit a muezzin's call to prayer and soldiers interrogate "insurgents" amid mock mortar attacks and suicide bombings.
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"I thought I was going to be running phone support for an M.I. unit," he said.

Instead, he was sent to Ft. Huachuca, where he has spent the last 14 weeks studying interrogation methods. The military has names for the various techniques. Seibel's favorites so far, he said, are "emotional" approaches like "hate of comrades," in which an interrogator tries to get a prisoner to talk by fostering resentment toward his former colleagues.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-interrogate24jul24,0,216554.story?coll=la-home-headlines

Described as a complete overhaul, interrogation field exercises for soldiers were "extended from four days to 10"

Maj. Gen. Barbara G. Fast is the commander here (she was the top US intel officer before and during the Abu Graib horrors)

[PATRICK]

1. Reminds me

how we have to watch diversity films and get pep talks and training whenever there is an individual blow up at the plant. This is laughable. You don't train people to be interrogators. Sure on the field they should have these rudiments when taking prisoners in emergency missions.

Apparently there are no real professionals who can question prisoners. That is the feel of this story. But more likely it is a sop to mask or make up for the real deal and current scandals. This is part of image repair and damage control as if the problem was soldiers going amok and not organized torture and intimidation from the top and criminal allies.

[Rose Siding]

3. I think the paper had this story prepped in case photos had been released

I'm wondering if the described "field exercises" that have increased to 10 days is *all* the interrogation training they receive. Maybe that's just one phase :shrug:

[Solly Mack]

2. New face my happy ass

Commanding General............MG Barbara Fast

http://huachuca-www.army.mil/USAG/PAO/scout.htm

"Several top U.S. military and intelligence sources say ... that Donald Rumsfeld, through other top Pentagon officials, directed the U.S. head of intelligence in Iraq, Gen. Barbara Fast, and others to bring some of the methods used at the BIF to prisons like Abu Ghraib, in hopes of getting better intelligence from Iraqi detainees. "

http://blogs.salon.com/0003364/2004/05/21.html

on edit:

And that soldier who used "fake" period blood at Gitmo went to work for a private company working where? Fort Huachuca

on edit again:

Link to female soldier from Gitmo
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/290459p-248637c.html

[Rose Siding]

5. ROFL, Solly Mack

"New face my happy ass"

I cherish a laugh in the midst of it :D

[bemildred]

4. Wermacht puts New Face on concentration camps.

Talk about people that just don't get it.
Or maybe this is just the usual delay, deny, and distract PR babble.
:puke: