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To: Bilow who wrote (130770)	4/30/2004 10:33:30 PM
From: Sarmad Y. Hermiz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

>> In previous wars, I don't think that US soldiers did this sort of thing to force prisoners to talk. I would guess the US interrogators learned this from their Israeli tutors. Who told them this is an unltimate humiliation of the prisoner to break his will. Did you notice that for a while the US forces were demolishing homes of resistance fighters in fallujah and Tikrit. I guess their Israeli mentors were guiding them there too. >> Killing prisoners in front of other prisoners is the traditional method, followed by a mock execution of the one you want to talk. The way I heard it from the guys who were coming back from VietNam in '70 and '71, is that 4 VietCong prisoners would be taken up in a helicopter. The first would be asked a question. If he wasn't quick to answer, he'd be pushed out of the helicopter to his death. And usually by the 3rd or 4th the remaining prisoners would be talking. At the time I didn't believe it. I only heard it as hearsay. But now I actually do believe that kind of interrogation had happened. And for Hawkmoon's benefit, no, this brutal behaviour was not limited to the US armed forces. Sarmad