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US troops tell of prison sex shows May 14, 2004 - 12:00PM Sex and alcoholism were commonplace among guards at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison even though they were forbidden, and soldiers set up a candle-lit room for sex shows, US troops who served there say. "There was lots of affairs. There was all kinds of adultery and alcoholism and all kinds of crap going on," said Dave Bischel, a National Guardsman with the 870th Military Police unit who returned home last month after service at Abu Ghraib. "There was a bed found in one of the abandoned buildings, there was a mattress on the ground, they had chairs all circled around it and candles all over the place," he said. "Chairs (were) around it obviously for an audience." Behind closed doors yesterday, members of Congress saw more than 1,200 images of prisoner abuse that also included photos of consensual sex, members said. Many of the abuse photos made public have a sexual nature, including one in which Private Lynndie England points at naked Iraqi prisoners simulating masturbation. Advertisement Advertisement Sex rumours were rampant among those serving in Abu Ghraib. "One of the female soldiers supposedly had sex in a gang bang," said Terry Stowe, another California MP who has since returned home. "From time to time things like this would happen." Added Bischel: "There's all sorts of nooks and crannies you could duck into. And depending on your cellmate, if you have a roommate (and) if you guys are on the same sheet of music you're not going to care what the other guy is doing." Sgt Mike Sindar said there were also whispers that some soldiers had sex with Iraqi inmates. "They were not supposed to have sex," said Lieutenant Antoine Brooks, one of the 870th's officers. "No type of fraternisation or anything. You do not want to have female soldiers getting pregnant. It's a hindrance to the mission." US military spokesman Captain Patrick Swan in Baghdad described by telephone a "no sex policy in theatre," which means soldier sex is forbidden anywhere in Iraq. Lust apparently led to the dismissal of the 870th unit's first commander, Captain Leo Merck, on charges he photographed his female soldiers as they showered. At least one soldier said others had photographed naked female soldiers in the showers. The 870th had just six women out of 124 MPs, but other US units serving at Abu Ghraib had higher ratios of women. At least officially, commercial pornography was also barred. "It is illegal to have pornographic material in Iraq, by Iraqi law and the US military enforces it also," Michael Drayton, who succeeded Merck as 870th MP unit commander, said in an interview. "You can buy for example a Maxim magazine or one of those magazines at the post exchange," he continued. "But female wise there was no way you could get nude pictures." The many US military restrictions may have created a premium for images created at Abu Ghraib. "They put these pictures on disk and they were pretty proud of it although it was very sick what they did," Drayton said of the now infamous abuse photos. Reuters --------------------- |
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