parts The prisoner was shocked and infuriated."
Saar quit his post because he became convinced that such an interrogation
strategy "was totally ineffective and not in keeping with the values of our democ-
r a c y . "
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The New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd coined the nickname "Tor-
ture Chicks" for the female interrogators at Gitmo who used sexual lures on
prisoners to gain information and confessions.
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Let us go "inside the wire" for
fuller details of what such an interrogation was like.
Saar reports one particularly dramatic encounter that could be classified
under the military rubric "Invasion of Space by Female." The victim was a
twenty-one-year-old Saudi of "high value" who spent a great deal of time praying
in his cell. Before the procedure began, the female interrogator, "Brooke," and
Saar were both "sanitized" by taping over their names on their uniforms to pre-
serve their anonymity. Then Brooke said, "The detainee we're going to talk to is a
piece of shit and we might have to turn things up a bit" because, as she made evi-
dent, "I'm starting to take shit from above because he's not talking. We need to try
something new tonight." This Saudi detainee was believed to have taken flight
lessons with the 9 / 1 1 hijackers, so was very high value. Saar noted "that when
military interrogators were questioning a detainee who was uncooperative, they
very quickly wanted to 'turn up the heat': shout, be confrontational, play the bad
cop, forget building rapport."
Interrogator Brooke continued: "I just need to make him feel that he ab-
solutely must cooperate with me and has no other options. I think we should
make him feel so fucking dirty that he can't go back to his cell and spend the night
praying. We have to put up a barrier between him and his G o d . "
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When the pris-
oner did not respond to her questioning, the interrogator decided to turn up the
heat.
"To my surprise," Saar exclaimed, "she started to unbutton her top slowly,
teasingly, almost like a stripper, revealing a skin-tight brown Army T-shirt stretch-
ing over her chest. . . . She walked slowly behind him and began rubbing her
breasts against his back." She taunted the prisoner: "Do you like these big Ameri-
c a n tits, Fareek? I see that you are starting to get hard. How do you think Allah
feels about that?" She then moved around to sit right in front of him and placing
her hands over her breasts, teased the prisoner with "Don't you like these big
tits?" When the prisoner looked away toward Saar, she challenged his mascu-
linity: "Are you gay? Why do you keep looking at him?. . . . He thinks I have great
tits. Don't you?" (Saar nods affirmatively.)
The prisoner resists, spitting at her. Unfazed, the interrogator turns up the
screw another notch. As she unbuttons her pants, she asks the prisoner:
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