[Peace-discuss] Fear Up Harsh ; Blackwater

[Karen Medina]

[Two books were mentioned at the AWARE meeting tonight. I thought people on the list might be interested in some of the "suggested readings". -karen medina ]

1. Fear Up Harsh
2. Blackwater

Fear Up Harsh: An Army Interrogator's Dark Journey Through Iraq 
by Tony Lagouranis and Allen Mikaelian
ISBN: 978-0-451-22112-4 (hardback) US $24.95 (new)
Publisher: NAL Caliber, an imprint of New American Library, a division of Penguin Group
Date Published: June 2007
"From the outset, Lagouranis's training stressed the rules of the Geneva Conventions. But once he arrived in Iraq, he discovered that pushing the legal limits of interrogation was encouraged. Under orders, he - along with countless other soldiers - abused and terrorized dozens of Iraqis by adding "enhancements" to "Fear Up Harsh," an official tactic designed to frighten prisoners into revealing information."

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Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
by Jeremy Scahill
ISBN-10: 1-56025-979-5; ISBN-13: 978-1-56025-979-4 (hardback); US $26.95 (new)
Published by Nation Books, an imprint of Avalon Publishing Group
2007
"Jeremy Scahill's exposé of the Blackwater mercenary firm forcefully demonstrates the grave dangers of outsourcing the government's monopoly on the use of force." - Joseph Wilson, former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq