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Clarification, British Troops 07/28/03
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Monday, July 28, 2003

Just a quick note to follow up on yesterday’s journal entry.

To continue my remarks regarding our treatment of prisoners, I can only speak from my own experience and from my own perspective relating to the area of the process that I am responsible for. I am an interrogation team chief, senior interrogator, been in the Army National Guard for the past 33 years. I have been on two deployments, two wars, and been on over 40 exercises in South Korea. I have personally participated in or witnessed countless interrogations of all types of detainees or sources. In all my years I have never witnessed or felt a need to use inhumane or cruel punishment in order to extract intelligence from an individual. Quite on the contrary, I personally feel that the utilization of psychological approaches is by far more affective in obtaining true information. Gaining the prisoners' trust and respect is by far the most affective method

I have on every occasion seen nothing but the utmost respect for the prisoners' needs, in most cases going out of our way to insure they are being handled appropriately. If there is any mistreatment I truly believe it is an isolated incident that is not representative of the thousands of prisoners who have received the best possible treatment. I have personally witnessed so many genuine acts of kindness displayed towards the prisoners.

I hope we as fellow Americans don't allow the news media to focus our attention on the few negative incidences, allowing those to overshadow the countless incidents of love and kindness exhibited by our troops.

We have just been through a war, remember, and we are now dealing with the worst of the worst criminals of this Wild West like country.

As far as the Brits are concerned I don't think they want to get into any kind of a debate with me about who provides the best treatment. Please, just don’t go there. Remember, I have all the first-hand proof. Regardless, I think the Brits are great. I have really enjoyed working with them on this mission. We have formed some new and special bonds between us regardless of our differences in handling prisoners. We have always appreciated their support in our many endeavors around the world.

posted Monday, 28 July 2003comments

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