Post by TotalInformation on Sept 13, 2008 3:35:39 GMT -5
www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/24/arts/bookjeu.php
Jane Mayer: 'The Dark Side'
Reviewed by Jennifer Schuessler
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
The Dark Side The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals By Jane Mayer 392 pages. $27.50. Doubleday.
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SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape) was a program developed by the military to train soldiers to resist torture or other rough treatment if captured. After 9/11, as Mayer first reported in The New Yorker, it was "reverse-engineered" into an offensive weapon. Under the influence of James Mitchell, a former military psychologist hired to supervise the project despite his lack of experience with either interrogations or Islamic extremism, the black sites, Guantánamo and eventually Abu Ghraib became a bizarre world where detainees were kept on dog leashes and bombarded with intolerable sounds, including "meows from cat food commercials, Yoko Ono singing and Eminem rapping about America."
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Jane Mayer: 'The Dark Side'
Reviewed by Jennifer Schuessler
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
The Dark Side The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals By Jane Mayer 392 pages. $27.50. Doubleday.
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[...]
SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape) was a program developed by the military to train soldiers to resist torture or other rough treatment if captured. After 9/11, as Mayer first reported in The New Yorker, it was "reverse-engineered" into an offensive weapon. Under the influence of James Mitchell, a former military psychologist hired to supervise the project despite his lack of experience with either interrogations or Islamic extremism, the black sites, Guantánamo and eventually Abu Ghraib became a bizarre world where detainees were kept on dog leashes and bombarded with intolerable sounds, including "meows from cat food commercials, Yoko Ono singing and Eminem rapping about America."
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