In all the reporting about the CIA documents that prove abuse, torture and other types of violence on the part of the CIA against “terror suspects,” the one thing I would really like to point out is how women’s bodies were used (and presumably are still being used) in the “war on terror.”

From the BBC News:

The declassified document released by the justice department said that one agent told key terror suspect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed that “we’re going to kill your children” if there were further attacks on the US.

Another agent allegedly told Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a suspect in the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000, that his mother would be sexually assaulted in front of him. The agent has denied the allegation.

In other incidents involving Mr Nashiri, he was allegedly threatened with an unloaded gun and had a power drill held near him which was repeatedly turned on and off.

Another incident involved an agent pinching an artery in a detainee’s neck. As the man was passing out, the agent shook him awake, then repeated the action twice.

I read this and thought–hm, aren’t these U.S. interrogators acting in the name of the same nation/state that said the reason we had to invade Iraq and Afghanistan is because women were treated like shit in Muslim nations?

On a side note, I also want to ask, if this is how women are being used in the war on terror, how are they being used AND TREATED in immigration detention centers? Or just regular old prison/jail?