Herald Sun: US denies sex torture [29jan05]

Herald Sun: US denies sex torture [29jan05]: "29jan05

SEXUAL torture may have been used to try to break Muslim detainees at the US prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Female interrogators sexually touched inmates and wore miniskirts and thong underwear, according to an insider.

The account, from a book draft by a former translator at the camp, is classified as secret pending a Pentagon review.

It details how the US used women in physical and psychological interrogation tactics to get terror suspects to talk.

'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,' said the author, former army Sgt Erik R. Saar, 29."
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He writes that one female civilian contractor used a special outfit including a miniskirt, thong underwear and a bra, during interrogations, mostly of Muslim men who considered close contact with women other than their wives taboo.

From April 2003, "there hung a short skirt and thong underwear on the hook on the back of the door" of one interrogation team's office, Saar writes in his book. "Later I learned that this outfit was used for interrogations by one of the female civilian contractors . . . on a team which conducted interrogations in the middle of the night on Saudi men who were refusing to talk."
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"His female interrogator decided that she needed to turn up the heat," Saar writes, saying she told him he could co-operate or 'have no hope whatsoever of ever leaving this place or talking to a lawyer'." The man closed his eyes and began to pray.

The female interrogator, wanting to "break him", removed her uniform top to expose a tight-fitting T-shirt and began taunting him, rubbing her breasts against his back. ...