Erik Saar
Appearance
A United States Army enlisted intelligence soldier, Sergeant Erik R. Saar was the co-author of the 2005 Inside the Wire : A Military Intelligence Soldier's Eyewitness Account of Life at Guantanamo, together with Viveca Novak.[1]
He had worked as an Arabic translator for six months from December 2002 to June 2003 at the Guantanamo Bay detainment camps[2] which he later described as a "dysfunctional facility where prisoner abuse was all but inevitable".[3] He described faked interrogations, sexual interrogation techniques and physical assaults of prisoners.[4][5]
References
[edit]- ^ "About the Author - Erik Saar". eriksaar.com. Archived from the original on July 31, 2010.
- ^ "Inside the Wire: A Military Intelligence Soldier's Eyewitness Account of Life at Guantanamo". Democracy Now!.
- ^ Roychoudhuri, Onnesha (May 24, 2005). "Inside the Wire: An Interview With Erik Saar". Mother Jones. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
- ^ Harris, Paul (8 May 2005). "Soldier lifts lid on Camp Delta". The Guardian.
- ^ Tate, Julie (8 May 2005). "Erik Saar and Viveca Novak's Inside the Wire". Washington Post.
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