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...Show and Ask at Gitmo Your report confirms that the military used sexual tactics at the Guantánamo Bay prison [Feb. 21], where female interrogators touched handcuffed detainees in sexually suggestive ways in an attempt to extract information. Those practices, deliberately violating Muslim taboos, have less to do with sex than with religion. Religious humiliation and degradation are prohibited by international law and dishonor our country. As the torture scandal continues to unfold-and where will it end?-we have every reason to demand an independent prosecutor. George Hunsinger McCord Professor of Theology Princeton Theological Seminary Princeton, New Jersey...
...hold on to the hope that Matt may still be alive. Thanks for keeping his situation at the forefront. We must never forget our heroes. Virginia Rebyak Bear, Delaware, U.S. Show and Ask at Gitmo Your report confirms that the military used sexual tactics at the Guantánamo Bay prison [Feb. 21], where female interrogators touched handcuffed detainees in sexually suggestive ways in an attempt to extract information. Those practices, deliberately violating Muslim taboos, have less to do with sex than with religion. Religious humiliation and degradation are prohibited by international law and dishonor our country. As the torture...
...prophet. I suspect that for him, sending troops into Iraq (and perhaps Iran in the future) was merely politically expedient. If the President's commitment to freedom is as idealistic as it sounds, why not invade North Korea? And one might also consider the detainees in Guantánamo Bay, who lost their basic right to a fair trial while they were imprisoned for years. Freedom is not a word you can bandy about as verbal punctuation. Let's hope Bush will learn what it actually means. That would bode well for the future. Iona Sharma Merseyside, England Bush...
...common such practices were at Guantánamo, a prison with a reputation for being more tightly run than those in the war zones of Iraq and Afghanistan, may be partly answered in the reports of two formal Pentagon investigations that are expected next month. One is a review of U.S. detention and interrogation practices worldwide that is being conducted by Vice Admiral Albert Church. A separate report, on allegations of abuse at Guantánamo made by FBI agents present there, is being prepared by the Southern Command...
Erik Saar and Viveca Novak's book about Guantánamo, Inside the Wire, will be published by Penguin Press...