Hortlund: Hmmm, let's see...she was taken prisoner uninjured, and was retrieved with spinal injuries, multiple major bone breaks, and contusions...from a hospital...where she may have been under painkillers or sedation.
Hortlund, where did you get that info that she was captured unharmed? The last I saw in the newspaper was that she did not have any stab or gunshot wounds but suffered broken bones and spine when her vehicle overturned from the explosion. Could you provide the link or reference please?
...her inability to provide total recall of the events...
As far as I know, after her resc.. er, retrieval she never publicly or officially said anything about the circumstances of her capture and stay in the hospital - including claim about memory gaps. Do you have any references for that opinion or do you just make it up as you go along?
And while we are at it, some old stuff:
miko: That's called psychological pressure - making prisoners believe they are threatened when in reality they are not.
In order to work properly threats must be combined with severe sleep deprivation, sensory deprivation, acute physical discomphort (being tied in ackward positions for hours, confined to narrow spaces, etc.), humiliation and other kinds of treatment that destroy person's mind.
Maverick: Miko, You obviously need to research the geneva convention. I'm sure your training in the ussr didn't cover it. I'm sure because of the absolutely stupid post you made.
Maveric, I described the general methods of psychological torture that pose small risk to life or even physical health and indicated that it is what Iraqis might have been doing.
Your statement quoted here implies that I tried to justify any side using them or called for using them or claimed they were legal while I did not say anything of that sort. I'm sure only your narrowmindedness and inability to use your brain made you post such an absolutely stupid reply as a knee-jerking reaction to seing my name rather than based on anything I've said here.
I certainly did not study Geneva convention in the USSR army but I know it does not forbid private citizens like myself knowing the techniques and methods of phsychological or other torture and describing them on the forums.
I know for sure that US have been and is using those and worse methods on prisoners - directly and through intermediaries.
Most recently, from a US official admitting that they cannot allow lawyers to visit the Guantanamo inmates because it would disrupt the round-the clock regime of sensory deprivation and other tortures similar to what I've just described.
miko
