'Haunted' Abu Ghraib interrogator describes same interrogation regime as 'Hooded Men' as torture

IN AN UNCANNY ECHO of what 'The Hooded Men' suffered during internment without trial at the hands of the British Army, the RUC and British Intelligence 45 years ago in the North of Ireland, a former US interrogator at the notorious Abu Ghraib Prison in Iraq describes the same “enhanced interrogation” techniques but Eric Fair uses another word – torture.

Eric Fair served as an interrogator in Iraq working as a military contractor for the private security firm CACI. He was stationed at the Abu Ghraib Prison and in Fallujah in 2004.

In a new memoir, Fair writes about feeling “haunted” by what he did, what he saw and what he heard in Iraq, from the beating of prisoners to witnessing the use of sleep deprivation, stress positions and isolation to break prisoners – exactly the techniques used against 'The Hooded Men'.

The US military described such actions as “enhanced interrogations” but Eric Fair uses another word – torture.

● Eric Fair’s book is titled Consequence: A Memoir.

● A US interrogator 'at work' in Abu Ghraib Prison, Iraq