Iraq Visual Language Survival Guides for Military Personnel

by Haitham Sabbah on 09/28/2004

It may look like a manual for fetishists, designed by a down-on-his luck coloring book designer. But, really, it's a "visual language survival guide," used by coalition soldiers and contractors in Iraq.

A company named Kwikpoint makes them, and the military hands them out to personnel. The guides help English-speaking personnel communicate with prisoners, would-be-detainees, interrogatees, and so on. Don't speak Farsi or Arabic? Need to tell a prisoner to drop trou and get horizontal beneath your boot, pronto?

Strange, strange stuff. Be sure to catch the "two-part diagram where a man is asked to remove his toupee so the interrogator can determine whether or not any weapons are stashed beneath."

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1 Eman September 29, 2004 at 10:58 am

This is sick, really. I understand that each person has the right to protect himself, and better safe than sorry, but still there are limitations, there are red lines, and there should be some respect.

2 Haitham September 29, 2004 at 6:53 pm

And who can stop them? Human right does not exist anymore. That a talk of history!

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