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On 5/14/07, Momodou Buharry Gassama <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> No hoods. No electric shocks. No beatings. These Iranians clearly are a
> very uncivilised bunch
>
>
> by Terry Jones
>
> Global Research, April 5, 2007
> The Guardian - 2007-03-31
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> I share the outrage expressed in the British press over the treatment
> of our naval personnel accused by Iran of illegally entering their
> waters. It is a disgrace. We would never dream of treating captives
> like this - allowing them to smoke cigarettes, for example, even though
> it has been proven that smoking kills. And as for compelling poor
> servicewoman Faye Turney to wear a black headscarf, and then allowing
> the picture to be posted around the world - have the Iranians no
> concept of civilised behaviour? For God's sake, what's wrong with
> putting a bag over her head? That's what we do with the Muslims we
> capture: we put bags over their heads, so it's hard to breathe. Then
> it's perfectly acceptable to take photographs of them and circulate
> them to the press because the captives can't be recognised and
> humiliated in the way these unfortunate British service people are.
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> It is also unacceptable that these British captives should be made to
> talk on television and say things that they may regret later. If the
> Iranians put duct tape over their mouths, like we do to our captives,
> they wouldn't be able to talk at all. Of course they'd probably find it
> even harder to breathe - especially with a bag over their head - but at
> least they wouldn't be humiliated.
>
> And what's all this about allowing the captives to write letters home
> saying they are all right? It's time the Iranians fell into line with
> the rest of the civilised world: they should allow their captives the
> privacy of solitary confinement. That's one of the many privileges the
> US grants to its captives in Guantánamo Bay.
>
> The true mark of a civilised country is that it doesn't rush into
> charging people whom it has arbitrarily arrested in places it's just
> invaded. The inmates of Guantánamo, for example, have been enjoying all
> the privacy they want for almost five years, and the first inmate has
> only just been charged. What a contrast to the disgraceful Iranian rush
> to parade their captives before the cameras!
>
> What's more, it is clear that the Iranians are not giving their
> British prisoners any decent physical exercise. The US military make
> sure that their Iraqi captives enjoy PT. This takes the form of
> exciting "stress positions", which the captives are expected to hold
> for hours on end so as to improve their stomach and calf muscles. A
> common exercise is where they are made to stand on the balls of their
> feet and then squat so that their thighs are parallel to the ground.
> This creates intense pain and, finally, muscle failure. It's all good
> healthy fun and has the bonus that the captives will confess to
> anything to get out of it.
>
> And this brings me to my final point. It is clear from her TV
> appearance that servicewoman Turney has been put under pressure. The
> newspapers have persuaded behavioural psychologists to examine the
> footage and they all conclude that she is "unhappy and stressed".
>
> What is so appalling is the underhand way in which the Iranians have
> got her "unhappy and stressed". She shows no signs of electrocution or
> burn marks and there are no signs of beating on her face. This is
> unacceptable. If captives are to be put under duress, such as by
> forcing them into compromising sexual positions, or having electric
> shocks to their genitals, they should be photographed, as they were in
> Abu Ghraib. The photographs should then be circulated around the
> civilised world so that everyone can see exactly what has been going
> on.
>
> As Stephen Glover pointed out in the Daily Mail, perhaps it would not
> be right to bomb Iran in retaliation for the humiliation of our
> servicemen, but clearly the Iranian people must be made to suffer -
> whether by beefing up sanctions, as the Mail suggests, or simply by
> getting President Bush to hurry up and invade, as he intends to anyway,
> and bring democracy and western values to the country, as he has in
> Iraq.
>
> Terry Jones is a film director, actor and Python, www.terry-jones.net
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