Oelewapper wrote:

Found this article on alledged human-rights-abuses by the U.S.E.R.F. (the
U.S. military Extreme Reaction Force). Interesting stuff, but is it true?
Or maybe it's just the tip of the iceberg ...

Nicely written propaganda piece, although the propaganda is carefully
tailored to assault Islamic/Arab audience sensibilities - it rings oddly
(if not occasionally amusing or even absurd) to a Western audience.

Just enough "truth" (such as repositioning allowing once-a-day showers
(fairly standard in most gaols) to be 'withholding washing before
prayers' - which would require showers several times a day) mixed with
fantasies which are particularly Islamic-centric ('a menstruating whore
smeared her blood on me'... something that sounds comic & absurd in the
West because it's doesn't matter but is much more of a threat there).

There's also the minor fact of there is no such detachment as a "US
ERF", but they can certainly explain away its lack of existence as it
being "super-secret".

Of course, no one will be allowed medical access to this young man to
actually perform medical tests to determine things like whether he
really is stooped due to shackles.

Sigh. A fluff propaganda piece.