Sexual Tactics Used On Guantanamo Detainees, Insider Says

[Judi Lynn]

Sexual Tactics Used On Guantanamo Detainees, Insider Says

Dow Jones Newswires
01-27-051233ET

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP)--Female interrogators tried to break Muslim detainees at the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay by touching them sexually, wearing skimpy clothing such as a miniskirt and thong underwear and in one case smearing a Saudi man's face with fake menstrual blood, according to an insider's written account.

A rough manuscript obtained by The Associated Press is classified as secret pending a Pentagon review for a planned book that details ways the U.S. military used women as part of tougher physical and psychological interrogation tactics to get terror suspects to talk.

It's the most revealing account so far of interrogations at the secretive detention camp, where officials say they have halted some controversial techniques.

"I have really struggled with this because the detainees, their families and much of the world will think this is a religious war based on some of the techniques used, even though it is not the case," the author, former Army Sgt. Erik R. Saar, 29, told AP.
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