18.04.2016 - 08:24 [ Democracy Now ]

Ex-Abu Ghraib Interrogator: Israelis Trained U.S. to Use „Palestinian Chair“ Torture Device

(7.4.2016) As a former interrogator in Iraq working as a military contractor for the private security firm CACI, Eric Fair was stationed at the Abu Ghraib prison and in Fallujah in 2004. While in Fallujah, he witnessed a torture device known as the Palestinian chair. He writes in his new book, „Consequence: A Memoir,“ that the chair was a way to immobilize prisoners in order to break them down both physically and mentally. He also wrote that the Israeli military taught them how to use the Palestinian chair during a joint training exercise.