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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=823573223-19122006><FONT
face=Verdana color=#800000 size=3>Sadly, it's worse if you dare to be a
whistle-blower. Read on . . .</FONT> </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<H1 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=2>Navy Veteran Detained and Tormented
in Iraq by US Military</FONT></H1>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Detainee 200343 was among thousands
of people who have been held and released by the American military in Iraq, and
his account of his ordeal has provided one of the few detailed views of the
Pentagon's detention operations since the abuse scandals at Abu
Ghraib.</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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href="http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121806M.shtml">http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121806M.shtml</A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<DIV><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN
class=823573223-19122006><U>Full Story</U>:</SPAN></SPAN></B></DIV>
<DIV><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN
class=823573223-19122006></SPAN>Former US Detainee in Iraq Recalls
Torment</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> (if you can
limit it to that)<BR>By Michael Moss<BR>The New York Times</SPAN></DIV>
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<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Monday 18 December
2006</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> One
night in mid-April, the steel door clanked shut on detainee No. 200343 at Camp
Cropper, the United States military's maximum-security detention site in
Baghdad.</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> American
guards arrived at the man's cell periodically over the next several days,
shackled his hands and feet, blindfolded him and took him to a padded room for
interrogation, the detainee said. After an hour or two, he was returned to his
cell, fatigued but unable to sleep.</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> The
fluorescent lights in his cell were never turned off, he said. At most hours,
heavy metal or country music blared in the corridor. He said he was rousted at
random times without explanation and made to stand in his cell. Even lying down,
he said, he was kept from covering his face to block out the light, noise and
cold. And when he was released after 97 days he was exhausted, depressed and
scared.</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> Detainee
200343 was among thousands of people who have been held and released by the
American military in Iraq, and his account of his ordeal has provided one of the
few detailed views of the Pentagon's detention operations since the abuse
scandals at Abu Ghraib. Yet in many respects his case is unusual.</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> The
detainee was Donald Vance, a 29-year-old Navy veteran from Chicago who went to
Iraq as a security contractor. He wound up as a whistle-blower, passing
information to the F.B.I. about suspicious activities at the Iraqi security firm
where he worked, including what he said was possible illegal weapons trading.
</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> But
when American soldiers raided the company at his urging, Mr. Vance and another
American who worked there were detained as suspects by the military, which was
unaware that Mr. Vance was an informer, according to officials and military
documents.</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> At
Camp Cropper, he took notes on his imprisonment and smuggled them out in a
Bible.</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> "Sick, very.
Vomited," he wrote July 3. The next day: "Told no more phone calls til leave."
</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> Nathan
Ertel, the American held with Mr. Vance, brought away military records that shed
further light on the detention camp and its secretive tribunals. Those records
include a legal memorandum explicitly denying detainees the right to a lawyer at
detention hearings to determine whether they should be released or held
indefinitely, perhaps for prosecution.</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> The
story told through those records and interviews illuminates the haphazard system
of detention and prosecution that has evolved in Iraq, where detainees are often
held for long periods without charges or legal representation, and where the
authorities struggle to sort through the endless stream of detainees to identify
those who pose real threats. </SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> "Even Saddam
Hussein had more legal counsel than I ever had," said Mr. Vance, who said he
planned to sue the former defense secretary, Donald H. Rumsfeld, on grounds that
his constitutional rights had been violated. "While we were detained, we wrote a
letter to the camp commandant stating that the same democratic ideals we are
trying to instill in the fledgling democratic country of Iraq, from simple due
process to the Magna Carta, we are absolutely, positively refusing to follow
ourselves."</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> A
spokeswoman for the Pentagon's detention operations in Iraq, First Lt. Lea Ann
Fracasso, said in written answers to questions that the men had been "treated
fair and humanely," and that there was no record of either man complaining about
their treatment. </SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <B>Held as
"a Threat"</B></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> She
said officials did not reach Mr. Vance's contact at the F.B.I. until he had been
in custody for three weeks. Even so, she said, officials determined that he
"posed a threat" and decided to continue holding him. He was released two months
later, Lieutenant Fracasso said, based on a "subsequent re-examination of his
case," and his stated plans to leave Iraq.</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> Mr.
Ertel, 30, a contract manager who knew Mr. Vance from an earlier job in Iraq,
was released more quickly. </SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> Mr.
Vance went to Iraq in 2004, first to work for a Washington-based company. He
later joined a small Baghdad-based security company where, he said, "things
started looking weird to me." He said that the company, which was protecting
American reconstruction organizations, had hired guards from a sheik in Basra
and that many of them turned out to be members of militias whom the clients did
not want around. </SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> Mr.
Vance said the company had a growing cache of weapons it was selling to
suspicious customers, including a steady flow of officials from the Iraqi
Interior Ministry. The ministry had ties to violent militias and death squads.
He said he had also witnessed another employee giving American soldiers liquor
in exchange for bullets and weapon repairs.</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> On
a visit to Chicago in October 2005, Mr. Vance met twice with an F.B.I. agent who
set up a reporting system. Weekly, Mr. Vance phoned the agent from Iraq and sent
him e-mail messages. "It was like, 'Hey, I heard this and I saw this.' I wanted
to help," Mr. Vance said. A government official familiar with the arrangement
confirmed Mr. Vance's account.</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> In
April, Mr. Ertel and Mr. Vance said, they felt increasingly uncomfortable at the
company. Mr. Ertel resigned and company officials seized the identification
cards that both men needed to move around Iraq or leave the country. </SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> On
April 15, feeling threatened, Mr. Vance phoned the United States Embassy in
Baghdad. A military rescue team rushed to the security company. Again, Mr. Vance
described its operations, according to military records.</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> "Internee
Vance indicated a large weapons cache was in the compound in the house next
door," Capt. Plymouth D. Nelson, a military detention official, wrote in a
memorandum dated April 22, after the men were detained. "A search of the house
and grounds revealed two large weapons caches."</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> On
the evening of April 15, they met with American officials at the embassy and
stayed overnight. But just before dawn, they were awakened, handcuffed with zip
ties and made to wear goggles with lenses covered by duct tape. Put into a
Humvee, Mr. Vance said he asked for a vest and helmet, and was
refused.</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> They were
driven through dangerous Baghdad roads and eventually to Camp Cropper. They were
placed in cells at Compound 5, the high-security unit where Saddam Hussein has
been held.</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> Only days
later did they receive an explanation: They had become suspects for having
associated with the people Mr. Vance tried to expose.</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> "You have
been detained for the following reasons: You work for a business entity that
possessed one or more large weapons caches on its premises and may be involved
in the possible distribution of these weapons to insurgent/terrorist groups,"
Mr. Ertel's detention notice said.</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> Mr.
Vance said he began seeking help even before his cell door closed for the first
time. "They took off my blindfold and earmuffs and told me to stand in a corner,
where they cut off the zip ties, and told me to continue looking straight
forward and as I'm doing this, I'm asking for an attorney," he said. " 'I want
an attorney now,' I said, and they said, 'Someone will be here to see
you.'"</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> Instead,
they were given six-digit ID numbers. The guards shortened Mr. Vance's into
something of a nickname: "343." And the routine began.</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> Bread and
powdered drink for breakfast and sometimes a piece of fruit. Rice and chicken
for lunch and dinner. Their cells had no sinks. The showers were irregular. They
got 60 minutes in the recreation yard at night, without other
detainees.</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> Five times
in the first week, guards shackled the prisoners' hands and feet, covered their
eyes, placed towels over their heads and put them in wheelchairs to be pushed to
a room with a carpeted ceiling and walls. There they were questioned by an array
of officials who, they said they were told, represented the F.B.I., the C.I.A.,
the Naval Criminal Investigative Service and the Defense Intelligence
Agency.</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> "It's like
boom, boom, boom," Mr. Ertel said. "They are drilling you. 'We know you did
this, you are part of this gun smuggling thing.' And I'm saying you have it
absolutely way off."</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> The
two men slept in their 9-by-9-foot cells on concrete slabs, with worn three-inch
foam mats. With the fluorescent lights on and the temperature in the 50s, Mr.
Vance said, "I paced myself to sleep, walking until I couldn't anymore. I broke
the straps on two pair of flip-flops."</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> Asked about
the lights, the detainee operations spokeswoman said that the camp's policy was
to turn off cell lights at night "to allow detainees to sleep." </SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <B>A
Psychological Game</B></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> One
day, Mr. Vance met with a camp psychologist. "He realized I was having
difficulties," Mr. Vance said. "He said to turn it into a game. He said: 'I want
you to pretend you are a soldier who has been kidnapped, and that you still have
a duty to do. Memorize everything you can about everything that happens to you.
Make it like you are a spy on the inside.' I think he called it rational emotive
behavioral therapy, and I started doing that."</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> Camp Rule 31
barred detainees from writing on the white cell walls, which were bare except
for a black crescent moon painted on one wall to indicate the direction of Mecca
for prayers. But Mr. Vance began keeping track of the days by making hash marks
on the wall, and he also began writing brief notes that he hid in the Bible
given to him by guards.</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> "Turned in
request for dentist + phone + embassy letter + request for clothes," he wrote
one day.</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> "Boards," he
wrote April 24, the day he and Mr. Ertel went before Camp Cropper's Detainee
Status Board.</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> Their legal
rights, laid out in a letter from Lt. Col. Bradley J. Huestis of the Army, the
president of the status board, allowed them to attend the hearing and testify.
However, under Rule 3, the letter said, "You do not have the right to legal
counsel, but you may have a personal representative assist you at the hearing if
the personal representative is reasonably available."</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> Mr.
Vance and Mr. Ertel were permitted at their hearings only because they were
Americans, Lieutenant Fracasso said. The cases of all other detainees are
reviewed without the detainees present, she said. In both types of cases,
defense lawyers are not allowed to attend because the hearings are not criminal
proceedings, she said.</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> Lieutenant
Fracasso said that currently there were three Americans in military custody in
Iraq. The military does not identify detainees.</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> Mr.
Vance and Mr. Ertel had separate hearings. They said their requests to be each
other's personal representative had been denied. </SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> At
the hearings, a woman and two men wearing Army uniforms but no name tags or rank
designations sat a table with two stacks of documents. One was about an inch
thick, and the men were allowed to see some papers from that stack. The other
pile was much thicker, but they were told that this pile was evidence only the
board could see. </SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> The
men pleaded with the board. "I'm telling them there has been a major mix-up,"
Mr. Ertel said. "Please, I'm out of my mind. I haven't slept. I'm not eating.
I'm terrified."</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> Mr.
Vance said he implored the board to delve into his laptop computer and cellphone
for his communications with the F.B.I. agent in Chicago.</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> Each of the
hearings lasted about two hours, and the men said they never saw the board
again.</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> "At
the end, my first question was, 'Does my family know I'm alive?' and the lead
man said, 'I don't know,' " Mr. Vance recounted. "And then I asked when will we
have an answer, and they said on average it takes three to four
weeks."</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <B>Help From
the Outside</B></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> About a week
later, two weeks into his detention, Mr. Vance was allowed to make his first
call, to Chicago. He called his fiancée, Diane Schwarz, who told him she had
thought he might have died. </SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> "It
was very overwhelming," Ms. Schwarz recalls of the 12-minute conversation. "He
wasn't quite sure what was going on, and was kind of turning to me for answers
and I was turning to him for the same."</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> She
had already been calling members of Congress, alarmed by his disappearance. So
was Mr. Ertel's mother, and some officials began pressing for answers. "I would
appreciate your looking into this matter," Senator Richard J. Durbin of Illinois
wrote to a State Department official in early May.</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> On
May 7, the Camp Cropper detention board met again, without either man present,
and determined that Mr. Ertel was "an innocent civilian," according to the
spokeswoman for detention operations. It took authorities 18 more days to
release him.</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> Mr.
Vance's situation was more complicated. On June 17, Lt. Col. Keir-Kevin Curry, a
spokesman for the American military's detention unit, Task Force 134, wrote to
tell Ms. Schwarz that Mr. Vance was still being held. "The detainee board
reviewed his case and recommended he remain interned," he wrote. "Multi-National
Force-Iraq approved the board's recommendation to continue internment.
Therefore, Mr. Vance continues to be a security detainee. We are not processing
him for release. His case remains under investigation and there is no set
timetable for completion." Over the following weeks, Mr. Vance said he made
numerous written requests - for a lawyer, for blankets, for paper to write
letters home. Mr. Vance said that he wrote 10 letters to Ms. Schwarz, but that
only one made it to Chicago. Dated July 17, it was delivered late last month by
the Red Cross.</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> "Diana,
start talking, sending e-mail and letters and faxes to the alderman, mayor,
governor, congressman, senators, Red Cross, Amnesty International, A.C.L.U.,
Vatican, and other Christian-based organizations. Everyone!" he wrote. "I am
missing you so much, and am so depressed it's a daily struggle here. My life is
in your hands. Please don't get discouraged. Don't take 'No' for answers. Keep
working. I have to tell myself these things every day, but I can't do anything
from a cell." </SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> The
military has never explained why it continued to consider Mr. Vance a security
threat, except to say that officials decided to release him after further review
of his case.</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> "Treating an
American citizen in this fashion would have been unimaginable before 9/11," said
Mike Kanovitz, a Chicago lawyer representing Mr. Vance. </SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> On
July 20, Mr. Vance wrote in his notes: "Told 'Leaving Today.' Took shower and
shaved, saw doctor, got civ clothes back and passport."</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> On
his way out, Mr. Vance said: "They asked me if I was intending to write a book,
would I talk to the press, would I be thinking of getting an attorney. I took it
as, 'Shut up, don't talk about this place,' and I kept saying, 'No sir, I want
to go home.' "</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> Mr.
Ertel has returned to Baghdad, again working as a contracts manager. Mr. Vance
is back in Chicago, still feeling the effects of having been a prisoner of the
war in Iraq.</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> "It's really
hard," he says. "I don't really talk about this stuff with my family. I feel
ashamed, depressed, still have nightmares, and I'd even say I suffer from some
paranoia." </SPAN></P>
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