An interrogator speaks out
by Pratap Chatterjee
AlterNet
03/07/05
Torin Nelson has worked in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. An expert interrogator, he was hired by the Virginia-based company CACI International Inc., to work at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, at the time when prisoners there were subjected to abuse and torture. Trained in interrogation techniques at Fort Huachuca in southern Arizona, Nelson has spoken out against this abuse, but believes firmly that interrogation is a military necessity and can be conducted in a humane manner. 'I wanted to defend my profession because what I saw in the media was a lot of mistaken conjecture, erroneous stuff,' Nelson said in a phone interview from his home in Salt Lake City, Utah. 'The abuses in Abu Ghraib were anathema to mission accomplishment...
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/21423/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
AlterNet
03/07/05
Torin Nelson has worked in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. An expert interrogator, he was hired by the Virginia-based company CACI International Inc., to work at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, at the time when prisoners there were subjected to abuse and torture. Trained in interrogation techniques at Fort Huachuca in southern Arizona, Nelson has spoken out against this abuse, but believes firmly that interrogation is a military necessity and can be conducted in a humane manner. 'I wanted to defend my profession because what I saw in the media was a lot of mistaken conjecture, erroneous stuff,' Nelson said in a phone interview from his home in Salt Lake City, Utah. 'The abuses in Abu Ghraib were anathema to mission accomplishment...
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/21423/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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