Guantanamo translator on c-span2 right now

[housewolf]

Author of the book "Inside the Wire", telling his story of Guantanamo

[NMDemDist2]

1. thanks for the headsup and

:hi: how ya doing?

[unhappycamper]

2. Thanks - just tuned in. n/t

[kliljedahl]

3. Got it, thanks

Keith’s Barbeque Central

[reprehensor]

4. Guardian - UK - Article - 5/8/05

Soldier lifts lid on Camp Delta

For the first time, an army insider blows the whistle on human rights abuses at Guantánamo

An American soldier has revealed shocking new details of abuse and sexual torture of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay in the first high-profile whistleblowing account to emerge from inside the top-secret base.

Erik Saar, an Arabic speaker who was a translator in interrogation sessions, has produced a searing first-hand account of working at Guantánamo. It will prove a damaging blow to a White House still struggling to recover from the abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib jail in Iraq.

In an exclusive interview, Saar told The Observer that prisoners were physically assaulted by 'snatch squads' and subjected to sexual interrogation techniques and that the Geneva Conventions were deliberately ignored by the US military.

He also said that soldiers staged fake interrogations to impress visiting administration and military officials. Saar believes that the great majority of prisoners at Guantánamo have no terrorist links and little worthwhile intelligence information has emerged from the base despite its prominent role in America's war on terror.

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