A Torturer's Tale - Iraq

March 2006
As guards at Abu Ghraib, Javal Davis and Ken Davis witnessed or participated in the abuse of prisoners. They feel betrayed by their superiors and tell their side of the story.

In the eyes of much of the world, Javal Davis is a torturer. He was imprisoned for assaulting prisoners at Abu Ghraib but says we shouldn't judge him. "Unless you were there, stay open about drawing an opinion." Davis claims he was ordered to 'prepare' the prisoners for interrogation by military intelligence. "We'd be given lists of instructions -- this guy can sleep up to two hours, sleep for 15 mins." Unlike Javal, guard Ken Davis was never implicated in the abuse. He reported it to his superiors in December 2003 and tried to get it stopped. But he's also bitter about his experiences at Abu Ghraib and believes the torture was ordered from the very top. "Charles Graner came to me and told me that they were making him do things he felt were morally and legally wrong." The men feel deeply disillusioned by their treatment by superior officers. As Javal explains: "They stabbed me in the back. They stabbed a whole lot of soldiers in the back and left them out there to dry."

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[911insidejob81]

close Guantanamo NOW

stop torture

nazis tortured people too

[Engwa74]

Karma will gets war criminals, All innocent people killed souls will haunt you and your Families

[ShilohNative]

Grainer and this little shit who is now a cop squealing like the pig needs to be ass ripped and then done in. I hope your future lives are short and turmoiled. Enjoy the prison sentence at the hands of your government. You knew better but your acted as a void of these Nazi leaders. Every gang needs a dispensables goons and you are it! Hope your Nation wakes up to its Gov and bankers very very soon.....NOW!!!!

[ShilohNative]

@shushu161 Bud you are not gonna get anywhere with your rants and proclaiming islam as shyte,you do your cause worse. We will agree on one thing though,Nazi German behaviour is not acceptable.Do not feel bad for the soldiers who never stood up. You would abuse for fear of being killed byn rabid animals yourself. Your 16 hour days wouldn't have been bad if you wouldn't have been beating on innocent people. Most interesting the soldiers who come back and are cops,pay back is a bitch to its voters.

[shushu161]

fuck america....u pieces of shit watching ppl jerk off u fucking faggots...go rape ur children thats what u do best...Long live islam! u mother fuckers..i hate u ppl!

[shushu161]

May those screams and cries of those inconent souls haunt you and haunt your family...god bless Iraqis!

[Spazzletwat]

If you're aware of the treatment of US prisoners in some jails and even the rampant abuse of power exercised on the street by ordinary police officers, is it any surprise that the same and greater abuses are seen in the military. It's a land of insecure bullies

[33guyfawkes]

i hate islam!

[Neigah88]

@TheGrannyWhore God bless other countries, not just America!

[blackphonetic1]

Then you can justify anything boy.

You opted out of responsibility for your actions.

Proof of your power from the barrel of a gun.

You wanted to be significant.

.

You wallowed in the dross.

The outcome of voluntary ignorance.

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And smiled.

[TheGrannyWhore]

God bless america

[astrocientista]

Those people are fucked up.

Forcing the captured to masturbate in front of them.

Masturbation is an unforgivable sin. That is probably the worst thing you could have done to them.