As discussed earlier in the blog, the Military Police (MPs) drove up to Abu Ghraib with NO TRAINING and were instructed to put their weapons away because they would no longer need them. These men and women had then spent months as "incarceration staff" for the detainees rounded up in Iraq and now had to face another BIG change........
The MPs now had the job of "softening up, creating the conditions for affective interrogation by the Military Interrogators." They were essentially responsible for making sure the detainees experienced the events before being interrogated the next day. In the video the MPs recall having to do things such as, showering the detainee several times while pointing and laughing, waking them up every few hours, utilizing loud noises to keep them up, throwing water on them, etc.... Whatever it took to keep them up and ready for the interrogators.
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