![]() I think I knew that we were being aggressive and there was a certain confusion around why we're doing this, but as a prior enlisted soldier, the expectation was that you completed your job and you completed your mission, and these were necessary tools in that mission. These were the techniques that I was most familiar with and that I used.Īgain, there was never a point at which I thought I knew I had crossed a line. There's the whole debate about the difference between "enhanced interrogation" and torture and where's the division? For me, the stress positions that we used were in many ways based on the kind of stress positions that we had gone through in basic training - whether it was being in the push-up position for a certain amount of time, or holding your arms out to your side with books in them, until you essentially achieved muscle failure. There was a sense, I think, from the beginning that we were almost going to make it up as we went along.Īs a prior enlisted soldier, the expectation was that you completed your job and you completed your mission, and these were necessary tools in that mission.Įric Fair, former Abu Ghraib interrogator And one of the buildings that had housed Iraqi prisoners during the days of Saddam Hussein had been emptied out, and we were led to a cell with actual bars on the door, and that's where we lived. And so Abu Ghraib is an enormous prison complex with quite a few buildings. ![]() The first thing that may have seemed abnormal was that we were housed in old prison cells. We certainly had never done anything like staff a large-scale prison in the middle of a combat zone. There were a few - some of the older gentlemen - may have seen action in the first Gulf War, but on a very limited basis. I think it was difficult to be surprised, because there were so few expectations about what we were getting into. On his first impressions of Abu Ghraib prison Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Consequence Author Eric Fair ![]()
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