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Reference to Manning should be as Chelsea, not Bradley.

Neil Smith, a 20-year-old medic who was based in Samarra, remembers what low ranking US soldiers in the canteen said. "What was pretty widely known in our battalion, definitely in our platoon, was that they were pretty violent with their interrogations. That they would beat people, shock them with electrical shock, stab them, I don't know what else ... it sounds like pretty awful things. If you sent a guy there he was going to get tortured and perhaps raped or whatever, humiliated and brutalised by the special commandos in order for them to get whatever information they wanted."

He now lives in Detroit and is a born-again Christian. He spoke to the Guardian because he said he now considered it his religious duty to speak out about what he saw. "I don't think folks back home in America had any idea what American soldiers were involved in over there, the torture and all kinds of stuff."

Through Facebook, Twitter and social media the Guardian managed to make contact with three soldiers who confirmed they were handing over detainees to be tortured by the special commandos, but none except Smith were prepared to go on camera.

"If somebody gets arrested and we hand them over to MoI they're going to get their balls hooked, electrocuted or they're going to get beaten or raped up the ass with a coke bottle or something like that," one said.

He left the army in September 2006. Now 28, he works with refugees from the Arab world in Detroit teaching recent arrivals, including Iraqis, English.

"I suppose it is my way of saying sorry," he said.

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Raveolution - Is this the Real Life? (on Wattpad) https://www.wattpad.com/1062070622-raveolution-is-this-the-real-life?utm_source=web&utm_medium=tumblr&utm_content=share_reading&wp_uname=TheRaverJ&wp_originator=D9d7g9%2B%2BFKpA7%2BXf1Z3KF5MuWKLhaZT7IaOpFzKR6NBqc1hiVYsbQA3hHCQee24g6y72HCJ8deiEyazCohgKXX50VAjJ7pnHD95JgmNDhAtYLTdYXGMGnLyjoqm1ZFY5 What happens when you're working for the "bad guy" and then go to a rave where your heart is blasted open in spiritual ecstasy? Well, for Jivana (who will turn into Raver J), it might involve a bit of a psychological crisis, the taking to an ancient prophecy, several parties, and a final choice. Should she stay the path of material success as a corporate jockey or follow her heart and risk everything to join the raveolution?

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One day you will know why I need to go here ;)