"Keep them naked if they do not follow commands."

Get them naked," the PowerPoint aid says. "Keep them naked if they do not follow commands."

Naked power ! That was, and  is, the point of it. The power to command. Command the world's wealth.  Its resources and its  People . All through the use of the most brutal power at mankind's, not so kind, command.

The brutality of the powerful is not called to be called Torture, of course.That is a term reserved for what the Others do. The weaker Others. Others  like the Nepali colonel that Britain has arrested and aims to try even as it joins the Americans  in covering up its own brutality. Its own Torture. 

Selective Lawfare  - that is  the name of the new warfare on the world's poor and on  their incredible wealth. The resource wealth that the West wants to control. 
  

An Iraqi detainee in al-Ma'aqal prison, Basra, in 2004. More than 1,000 former prisoners say they were severely mistreated by the British military during the five-year occupation. Photograph: Hani al-Obeidi/AFP/Getty Images

Allegations that British troops in Iraq were responsible for the widespread and systemic abuse of detainees through "terrifying acts of brutality, abuse and intimidation" were raised in the high court today as lawyers representing hundreds of former prisoners demanded a public inquiry.

More than a thousand former prisoners complain that they were severely mistreated after being detained by the British military during the five-year occupation of the south-east of the country, while others – including women and children – say they were abused when their male relatives were being detained.

"Enough is enough," said Michael Fordham QC, for the former prisoners. "There must be a public inquiry in relation to credible and prima-facie cases of human rights violations perpetrated by the British military in Iraq between 2003 and 2008."

Many of the individual claims investigated by IHAT have resulted in the payment of substantial sums in compensation. Last month the department announced that it had paid a total of £14m to 205 claimants. A further £1.1m was paid to 22 more people in recent weeks. Payments to about 180 more former prisoners are being negotiated, and further 700 cases are thought to be in the pipeline.

Former JFIT prisoners allege that in between the video-filmed interrogation sessions they would be blindfolded and dragged by their thumbs around an obstacle course while being kicked and struck with rifle butts. One former JFIT guard has confirmed to the Guardian that this was routine practice.

The court has heard that custody records show guards were ordered to wake prisoners every 15 minutes: a practice known as Operation Wide Awake.

There are also allegations that JFIT's prisoners were beaten and forced to kneel in stressful positions for up to 30 hours at a time; held for days in cells as small as one metre square; that some were subjected to electric shocks; and that others suffered sexual humiliation by female soldiers.

A PowerPoint training aid created in 2005 and a manual dating from 2008 instructs trainees that they should use threats, sensory deprivation and enforced nakedness in an apparent breach of the Geneva conventions. "Get them naked," the PowerPoint aid says. "Keep them naked if they do not follow commands."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/29/iraqi-detainees-demand-uk-inquiry