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Interview with an Abu Gharib Torturer
http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/2006/200604/20060405.html
listen to the interview here, it starts 2 minutes in
http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/2006/200604/20060405.html
click Part 1, You need Real Player
"Among the damning photos of U.S. soldiers tormenting prisoners in Abu Ghraib, there was one that held special meaning for my first guest. It's the one in which an Iraqi prisoner cowers in front of a snarling dog---his face two feet from the dog's open mouth. A U.S. soldier is fighting to restrain the dog.
That soldier, Sgt. Michael Smith, was recently sentenced to six months in a military prison--- bringing to ten the number of people convicted for their crimes at Abu Ghraib. While high-ranking officers have been reprimanded for the scandal, according to the New York Times, no soldier with a rank higher than staff-sergeant has been convicted.
Tony Lagouranis has never met Sgt. Smith, but he has followed his case with particular interest. That's because Mr. Lagouranis was an Army interrogator at Abu Ghraib, who also conducted interrogations in which dogs were used. He began his tour in January, 2004, just after the abuse was uncovered. But disgusted with what he witnessed in Iraq, he has since left the military.
Tony Lagouranis was a specialist with the U.S. Army from 2001 to 2005. He was in Chicago."
for those of you too lazy to listen to the short interview here's a summary
- Lagouranis was an interogator at Abu Gharib after the photos of torture hit the media
- He admits to abusing prisoners, hypothermia, stress positions, dogs
- given rules by CENTCOM (US central command) detailing everything they could and couldnt do, all that I listed above was allowed
- prisoners were left outside in the cold as punishmnet, they'd leave a rectal thermometer in the prisoners to monitor them so they didnt die ..this was the navy seals
- full interrogation on at 400 prisoners, partial interrogations on over 1000, yet he only wrote reports on 12 prisoners, says believed all others were innocent
- the majority of the prisoners were innocent: "most were taxi drivers, farmers caught up in the net, wrong place at the wrong time"
- admits breaking geneva conventions and international laws ...ordered by CENTCOM
- trained to use geneva conventions but ordered to do things contrary to the conventions
- interviewer asks: "did you cross a moral line" ...he answers "yes I definately crossed the line, I wish I had disobeyed orders more"
- Force recon Marines severly beat prisoners, during questioning: smashed feet, broken hands, ribs, hitting with tools, "severly messed up"
- complained about marines, wrote reports but he doesnt believe the reports were investigated
- interrogated some near death, talks about interrogating a guy with 4 bullets in his torso
- claims the higher ups knew about all that was going on, because the orders came from on top: US central command
http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/2006/200604/20060405.html
listen to the interview here, it starts 2 minutes in
http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/2006/200604/20060405.html
click Part 1, You need Real Player
"Among the damning photos of U.S. soldiers tormenting prisoners in Abu Ghraib, there was one that held special meaning for my first guest. It's the one in which an Iraqi prisoner cowers in front of a snarling dog---his face two feet from the dog's open mouth. A U.S. soldier is fighting to restrain the dog.
That soldier, Sgt. Michael Smith, was recently sentenced to six months in a military prison--- bringing to ten the number of people convicted for their crimes at Abu Ghraib. While high-ranking officers have been reprimanded for the scandal, according to the New York Times, no soldier with a rank higher than staff-sergeant has been convicted.
Tony Lagouranis has never met Sgt. Smith, but he has followed his case with particular interest. That's because Mr. Lagouranis was an Army interrogator at Abu Ghraib, who also conducted interrogations in which dogs were used. He began his tour in January, 2004, just after the abuse was uncovered. But disgusted with what he witnessed in Iraq, he has since left the military.
Tony Lagouranis was a specialist with the U.S. Army from 2001 to 2005. He was in Chicago."
for those of you too lazy to listen to the short interview here's a summary
- Lagouranis was an interogator at Abu Gharib after the photos of torture hit the media
- He admits to abusing prisoners, hypothermia, stress positions, dogs
- given rules by CENTCOM (US central command) detailing everything they could and couldnt do, all that I listed above was allowed
- prisoners were left outside in the cold as punishmnet, they'd leave a rectal thermometer in the prisoners to monitor them so they didnt die ..this was the navy seals
- full interrogation on at 400 prisoners, partial interrogations on over 1000, yet he only wrote reports on 12 prisoners, says believed all others were innocent
- the majority of the prisoners were innocent: "most were taxi drivers, farmers caught up in the net, wrong place at the wrong time"
- admits breaking geneva conventions and international laws ...ordered by CENTCOM
- trained to use geneva conventions but ordered to do things contrary to the conventions
- interviewer asks: "did you cross a moral line" ...he answers "yes I definately crossed the line, I wish I had disobeyed orders more"
- Force recon Marines severly beat prisoners, during questioning: smashed feet, broken hands, ribs, hitting with tools, "severly messed up"
- complained about marines, wrote reports but he doesnt believe the reports were investigated
- interrogated some near death, talks about interrogating a guy with 4 bullets in his torso
- claims the higher ups knew about all that was going on, because the orders came from on top: US central command
