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Dublin - Event Notice Thursday January 01 1970 Former Abu Ghraib Interogator Reads Play at Abbey Theatre
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Joshua Casteel Iraq Veteran Against the War www.ivaw.org will be doing a reading The play is based on his experiences as an interrogator at Abhu Ghraib. |
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The Abu Ghraib Missive
In June 2004, the Cedar Rapids native was sent as an interrogator to Abu Ghraib as part of the team intended to "clean up" the operation and the scandal that had engulfed it. Casteel's unit split day and night shifts doing interrogations, but with few soldiers trained in Arabic, they also had to act as their own prisoner screeners.
"There was supposed to be a screening process before we even got to the interrogation process, but we were the only ones who spoke the language," Casteel said. "The majority of people we talked to were cab drivers and farmers. I did around 130 interrogations, and I can count on one hand the number of people who would be considered 'bad guys.' "
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When a prisoner reached Abu Ghraib, Casteel was required to "exploit the greatest amount of information in the least amount of time." Even after the torture scandal at the prison had become common knowledge, his superiors never discouraged its use.
"You have to reduce a person to exploitation and reduce yourself to the exploiter," Casteel said. "You use torture. You induce hypothermia by stripping a man naked during winter, pour buckets of water on him while he's in front of an air conditioner, and then take his temperature rectally to make sure he isn't actually too cold. These are common tactics."
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This is where we get taken back to the North of our country again and many others.
How many Irish, Vietnamese, Tibetans, Palestinians etc etc etc men, woman and children are walking around with physical and untold psychological damage?
I look forward to the day when Bush and his ilk are in the dock for war crimes against humanity, and the rest of the so called 'peace' fucking makers!!! Justice on earth is looming...
Jade...will you send me your email address, I need to contact you about something. Great work.
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