From AP Story (Linked):
Moazamm Begg, 38, a prisoner for more than two years at Guantanamo before being released to Great Britain, said he was suspicious of the Pentagon’s description of incidents, especially allegations that Muslim men tore their Qurans or used sperm in attacks. The Pentagon continues to publicly question Begg’s claim of innocence.
“This just doesn’t make sense _ especially since for Muslims this would be something that was disgusting, something that just wouldn’t be done,” he said. He added that some detainees told him they had mixed toothpaste and spit in the cocktails to make it look like semen.
Begg, who has written a book and spoken frequently about his experience, said most incidents he witnessed were spontaneous reactions “when word spread” among prisoners that a guard had done something wrong.
“I rarely saw lone prisoners acting out on their own for no reason except if they had some sort of mental illness or if they were on medication,” he said.
Making something look like sperm to fling at guards…ok. Using actual sperm…not ok. I think it’s amusing that he said that they would only act out if they had some sort of mental illness. I know the press would like you to believe that 99% of the people being detained have done nothing wrong (exaggeration for dramatic effect, keep your panties on), but many of these people are terrorist…terrorists don’t strike me as mentally sound…mentally disturbed people sometimes throw body fluids at their guards. See Clarice.
Easier still to believe, based on their religion and the area of the world that many have been apprehended in, was their treatment of female guards:
Though all detainees are foreigners, many are clearly Americanized when it comes to their insults and gestures. Male guards are frequently derided as “donkeys” while female guards are routinely called “bitches” or harassed by references to their breasts or genitalia, the reports said.
In all, nearly a quarter of incidents involved female guards, the reports show.
“They absolutely target female guards,” Nicolucci said. “They have a lot of cultural biases about females, and we let them know in our culture that females do everything males do in a professional job environment, and we just hold firm.”
Just a reminder that the victims in Guantanamo aren’t always the prisoners. Many in the press and political arena are so quick to step up in favor of those detained that they forget the hell that those doing the detaining endure every day.
Michelle Malkin has posted several stories about such “reverse abuse”, and has a full history of incidents going back years, that have all but been ignored as the argument revolves around whether or not “waterboarding” is torture (cocktails of feces, spit, and urine are not in case you were wondering).
As a side note…we ran into a Navy man at the San Diego Comic Convention when we were having lunch. He asked one of my friends for a light for his cigarette, and then we proceeded to talk to him about what he was doing, what he was up to…on leave, etc. In the middle conversation, he thanked us, because many of the people that he had come into contact with had called him names yelled at him that somehow the war in Iraq was his fault…and in general treated him like shit, and we talked to him as a human being. He said that agree or disagree with the war, he was doing his job, and he didn’t understand why people attacked him, without knowing him…just goes along the lines of remembering that there are people under those uniforms…and they deserve to be treated with some civility. I’m not saying like them, I’m not even saying respect them, but afford them a little common courtesy when you meet them, them flame them all you want on the chat boards…tearing into the individual soldier acheives nothing.
And Kids…remember, Liberals only respect the uniform if you agree with them…think contrary? Look up Murtha or Kerry in comparison to Pantano or even Rumsfeld (who served in the US Navy from 1954 to 1975 as active duty and reservist). The argument is “Rumsfeld never saw battle”, even though he’s been involved with policy and national defense for over 20 years…apparently, you need to blow yourself up to have credibility. (Tasteless…I know…truly tasteless…but I have to be consistent)
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