REPORT: Cookies Work Better Than Torture On Al Qaeda
From Time Magazine
The most successful interrogation of an Al-Qaeda operative by U.S. officials required no sleep deprivation, no slapping or “walling” and no waterboarding. All it took to soften up Abu Jandal, who had been closer to Osama bin Laden than any other terrorist ever captured, was a handful of sugar-free cookies.
Abu Jandal had been in a Yemeni prison for nearly a year when Ali Soufan of the FBI and Robert McFadden of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service arrived to interrogate him in the week after 9/11. Although there was already evidence that al-Qaeda was behind the attacks, American authorities needed conclusive proof, not least to satisfy skeptics like Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, whose support was essential for any action against the terrorist organization. U.S. intelligence agencies also needed a better understanding of al-Qaeda’s structure and leadership. Abu Jandal was the perfect source: the Yemeni who grew up in Saudi Arabia had been bin Laden’s chief bodyguard, trusted not only to protect him but also to put a bullet in his head rather than let him be captured.
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..maybe just blind.. cuz der is a link sayn ‘read whole story’ ..where dey say dat abu jandal is diabetic n da gesture from da american guards to serve him sum sugar-free cookies changed his way of seein dem..
Maybe I’m just deaf, dumb and blind…but what in the world does sugar free cookies have to do with any of this? It doesn’t say in the article why the guy broke down for some cookies. Does anyone proof read these articles before they are posted?
camui:
Ditto. If you say you are morally superior to terrorists then conduct yourself as such.
SMH @ Bin Laden isnt real. Is there a conspiracy that black peopel DON’T believe in?
Regarding torture, a FBI interrogator whose name I can recall said: “If you torture someone, they will tell you where the safehouse is. If you use rapport building techniques they will tell you the safehouse is boobytrapped”
Torture is just bad policy everyway u look at it
dont say he isnt real. they wont even listen. and then they will visit ur profile and take shots at u. people are stupid. dont they know 9/11 was planned from the inside?
BIN LADEN ISNT REAL NUKKAS
this is really sad. if they only treated these people like human beings instead of rabid animals, maybe we could have had bin ladin by now. it wasn’t that he was given cookies, it was just that he was treated with decency. something that everyone wants to be treated with. if extremists think americans are infidels, then acting like barbarians is only adding to their argument and hatred.
cookies all they had to do was give him cookies???? wow
lol
LOL@cookies and cream
now just any kinda cookies..diabetic cookies !! dude spilled da beans, because the same terrorists that planned it out, happened to be the same ones that ran his family away from his home..and then he started to cry && the dude interrogating him told him how sorry he was..&& the info was actually somethin we could U S E ! still, cookies? lol
I LIKE COOKIES! HOW BOUT ICE CREAM TOO NEXT TYME!?