JUNE 2004
"US defence officials say that in late 2002, Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld approved a request by interrogators to use some techniques that went beyond normal military doctrine. "
We have to look at these faces
and 
understand that physically healthy people
have become corrupted beyond our understanding...IN PALESTINE : A released prisoner interviewed : "during the first few days,(after arrest) there are likely to
be at least two
interrogation sessions each twenty four hours, each one
lasting for several hours. Between the interrogation
sessions, the detainee may be placed in the
"Shabah" or "coffin". Both methods
make sleep impossible. Shabah means that the detainee is
made to squat stand with legs bent, or is made to sit
handcuffed to the wall of an outdoor yard. The
"Coffin" is a tiny cell measuring about one
meter square into which the detainee is locked for hours
at a time."WOMEN PRISONERS
Beatings: Women are routinely slapped, and kicked during interrogation session if they do not readily answer questions. The interrogator will bang the women's head against the wall during the same session. This was the most common and easy way of torture at the Israeli jails in which the mental state of many prisoners had been severely affected.
Electric Shocks: the Israeli interrogators used the electric shock chair shock during the investigation. For example, nineteen year old Maryam Qadumi said that from the beginning of her interrogation, the Shabak, the Israeli Intelligence, had used electric shocks. The interrogators asked her questions and when she refused to talk, they took her to a room with a red light and a special chair. The chair was made of iron and leather and had wires attached to it. She was made to sit on it and a prison officer connected the wires to her legs and arms. She was extremely frightened. The interrogator who was in charge told the prison officer to turn on the current. After this session they took her to the tiny cell for a couple of hours and then took her back to the interrogation room.
Sexual Harassment: while the detainee is becoming progressively weaker from the combination of
sleep,
food deprivation and physical a abuse, she must also cope
with a barrage of verbal sexual taunts, threats and in
some cases actual assault. Generally these assaults occur
during interrogation sessions.Hanan Rahim describes her first interrogation session in the Jelme detention Center as follows. "It was my first arrest. The interrogator who was doing most of the talking kept insulting me, using sexual insults like "whore" or "bitch". He told me to look him in the eyes as he spoke to me, but I avoided his gaze, various threat were made to me, they said that would rape me and that they would kill me, They also said that they would put me with collaborators, and that since there were no women collaborators available, they would put me in a room with male collaborators."
The number of interrogators in each session varies, usually between about two and six. All the interrogators are male, the detainee is acutely aware that she is in their sole custody, there in nobody for her to complain to, or to seek protection from.
One of the most severe reported cases of sexual harassment and actual assault occurred to Fatma Abu Bakra from Gaza, who was being held in Ashkelon Jail. Fatma was interrogated for a period of fifty days, and eventually made a confession as a result of the sexual harassment.
"An interrogator calling himself "Abu Allah", which mean "Father of "An interrogator calling himself "Abu Allah", which mean "Father of God", took me to another room, I was alone and he ..............
IN REFERENCE TO THE ABOVE:
In this article I just described some examples which came to mind after I read about the Iraqi prisoner torture testimony, in which I read that one of the interrogators told the Iraqi detainee while torturing him that he was called "the Evil Abu Allah". This reminded me of the Israeli sexual harassment during the interrogations by the Israeli experts "Steve" and the other one who called himself "Abu Allah" during the sexual torture of Palestinian women detainees. Actually, the Israeli interrogation and torture teams are using the same language everywhere they go, without limit.
Thinking about this I wondered if the same Israeli team of torture experts, Abu Allah", "Steve" and other qualified Israelis were torturing the Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib ? The American Pentagon confirmed that there were a foreign interrogators at Abu Ghraib. That's mean there is a big possibility that the Israeli interrogators were taking part in the torture at the Iraqi jails. The Israeli interrogators are fluent in the Arabic language, and furthermore they have teached at U.S military schools. They are more trusted than the others by the U.S. and they have the same interests in Iraq as the U.S. It is not a secret that Israel itself was very interested in this war against Iraq, what better than executing it through their proxy, the U.S.
Kawther Salam "Israels involvement in Iraq: Torture and Petroleum" http://s023.dyndns.org/kawther/K20040519A.html
MEDIA PHOTOGRAPHY
Few newspapers publish any devastating images of the deaths of Palestinian innocents and civilians that might turn the tide of public indifference to sympathy and protest. Photographs in the media are largely ameliorations of the true nature of this crisis in Palestine, the appalling loss of children,babes and their mothers and aged relatives.
The above periphally soft focus image of a mothers grief is a typical example; the peripheral features to the central image are without expression of the desolation of the central figure and thus inform the brain's mental impression of annealed pain.
Exceptions in horror at the present time are the pornographic pictures of torture that have been emerging from U.S. military sources, naked, humiliated men and women and this one, where anonymous prisoners are lying possibly dead, as though thrown down as rubbish :
Peripheral images here, left of man without trousers, another image a man wears a garment the same as the victim of execution elsewhere, Nick Berg : these features might make us think??... Standing over this jumble of inert men is someone wearing those sinister rubber gloves - protection from blood contamination ? AIDS in mind?
(Damn if it doesn't sell newspapers! Nick Berg probably helped sell several thousand extra copies of the worst tabloid in America, The New York Post. Berg's death, and the mysterious circumstances surrounding it, will hardly be questioned by the Post, in the unrestrained calls for revenge and the furtherance of unrestricted American imperialism.Douglas Herman www.striketheroot.com )
(There has been a semi-secret government initiative to add digital signatures to various digital consumer products. Photocopiers and digital cameras store an encrypted signature to identify the unit that made the video. This digitial signature is totally unique to each device and is more unique than a fingerprint.Today new pictures were released of prison torture at Abu Ghraib prison. But not just still pictures. Today video was released showing prisoners being tortured by Americans. Aparently Kodak film experts in Kodak Park in Rochester New York have compared the digital watermarks of the torture video and the beheading video and have determined that one of the cameras used in the Nick Berg beheading is THE SAME CAMERA that took the prison torture video.If this turns out to be true then there is NO DOUBT that Berg was killed by Americans at Abu Ghraib prison.http://marc.perkel.com/archives/000233.html)
How much of this military video and photographic material, sold on pornographic sites, can actually be assessed purely as informative, when the observer has to pass a barrage of complacent whores to reach the fearful images of Arab men and women being assaulted? The Iraq government should sue the USA for War Crimes and for allowing this to be sold to Jewish porn sites.
The "theatre" of media photography is dangerously close to propaganda every day in this way. The devastating broken lives of victims everywhere are never witnessed, wether victims of snipers, or bombs; wether civilian or military.
One wounded soldier only has been paraded from the U.S. military who fulfilled the parameters of "hero" and declaimed his regret at his inability to return to Iraq to continue the fight against "terrorism" But hundreds of U.S. soldiers lives have been wrecked with severe head wounds, and victims in Iraq, that must amount to thousands of Arab civilians, have lost their lives. Victims have bled to death while Israelis and now, also in Iraq, the U.S.military, fire at ambulances or prevent them reaching the wounded.
Meanwhile photographs like this below are in the realm of art-works and theatre:
Ofcourse hundreds of images are represented in theWestern press daily, and it could be disputed that the above observations are just fantasy... But how is it that the general public are either horrified in a political or biased frame of mind as though the incessant reports are an annoyance, or impressively indifferent which suggests not necessarily a cruel indifference, but definitely a repressed condition that has been created by the sub-structures of the media?
This question is very important.
It has been thought that the Madrid bombing created a public volte-face in regard to the subsequent vote loss and replacement of the Aznar Government. However any who spoke with Spaniards in recent years know that they realised some time ago that they had made a serious mistake in giving him a Government mandate. And incidentally the extra-ordinary urgency and vitality of the anti-war movement in Spain was never depicted closely in the English papers, for fear, presumably, of emulation by young people elsewhere in Europe.
Another degraded feature of newspapers and magazines is the contrast of mood or emotional alignment on contrasting pages - this can swing between extremes of positive and negative or as the two following examples indicate two contrasting evaluations that are "sleight of hand"
Constituency "work" at Toeknee Bliar's Sedgefield park to the left:
.......................................................................To the right "Hamas headbands are handed out to place on the dead." Pages 10 and 11, May 11th, Guardian, large photos directly opposed, the second a reprehensible "politically biased" message, concerning yet another political catastrophe that is in a sequence of warcrimes presently occurring in Gaza. Palestinians associated and seen in England as the "IRA" of the Middle East?
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