He was detained incommunicado for 97 days at one of the notorious US prisons in Iraq, deprived of sleep with fluorescent lights in his cell never turned off, handcuffed and shackled and deafened by heavy metal music.
The maltreatment episode might not sounds new in light of the several US abuse scandals in Iraq and elsewhere had it not been for the fact that the detainee was Donald Vance, a 29-year-old Navy veteran and an FBI informer.
"Even Saddam Hussein had more legal counsel than I ever had", Vance told The New York Times on Monday, December 18.
He recalled with bitterness his ordeal as detainee no. 200343 at Camp Cropper, the US military’s maximum-security detention site in Baghdad where the ousted Iraqi leader as held.
Vance was working for an Iraqi security firm protecting US reconstruction organizations.
He was also an FBI informer, passing information about suspicious activities including possible weapons trafficking.
US troops raided the firm at tips-off give by Vance himself to the FBI in Chicago about two massive weapon caches.
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The maltreatment episode might not sounds new in light of the several US abuse scandals in Iraq and elsewhere had it not been for the fact that the detainee was Donald Vance, a 29-year-old Navy veteran and an FBI informer.
"Even Saddam Hussein had more legal counsel than I ever had", Vance told The New York Times on Monday, December 18.
He recalled with bitterness his ordeal as detainee no. 200343 at Camp Cropper, the US military’s maximum-security detention site in Baghdad where the ousted Iraqi leader as held.
Vance was working for an Iraqi security firm protecting US reconstruction organizations.
He was also an FBI informer, passing information about suspicious activities including possible weapons trafficking.
US troops raided the firm at tips-off give by Vance himself to the FBI in Chicago about two massive weapon caches.
(MORE)
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