Sad that the neutered DoD will only allow the "comfy chair" type of interrogation.
Posted on 03/02/2016 9:44:17 AM PST by SeekAndFind
WASHINGTON — An elite American Special Operations force has captured a significant Islamic State operative in Iraq and is expected to apprehend and interrogate a number of others in coming months, ushering in a new and potentially fraught phase in the fight against the extremist Sunni militant group.
American defense officials described the capture as a crucial development in battling the Islamic State but said it also raised questions about handling what is likely to be a growing group of detainees.
Although American commandos have captured a handful of Islamic State fighters in Iraq and Syria in discrete operations in recent years, the Pentagon is now faced with the prospect of detaining a larger group of captives and potentially reprising some of the darkest images of the war in Iraq, particularly the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison.
The American military has largely fought the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, from the sky, and large numbers of Islamic State fighters have been killed in Iraq and Syria by American airstrikes. The 200-member Special Operations team, made up of many Delta Force commandos, arrived in Iraq in recent weeks and is the first major American combat force on the ground there since the United States pulled out of the country at the end of 2011.
Defense officials said the team had set up safe houses and worked with Iraqi and Kurdish forces to establish informant networks and conduct raids on Islamic State leaders and other important militants.
Officials said the detainee, whom they declined to identify, was being interrogated by American officials at a temporary detention facility in the city of Erbil in northern Iraq. They said the plan was to eventually turn him over to Iraqi or Kurdish officials.
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Now that waterboarding is not allowed, what other interrogation techniques are available to make them squeal?
Obama will let him go after they pray to Mecca together.
Now that waterboarding is not allowed, what other interrogation techniques are available to make them squeal? ...
Perhaps panties on the head. That used to work also.
what other interrogation techniques are available to make them squeal?
Make them listen to Hillary!’s speeches?
Let him go in the WH basement.
So, I guess GITMO is out of the question...
Keep John Kerry away from him, it’s too early to surrender.
How serious can this be if it’s a secret war fought by using press releases?
They should be sent to Gitmo.
Shoot, Shovei, Shut up.
I’m still trying to figure out why it took 3 people to write 825 words. Must be a union shop. : ^ )
A friend of mine was an Army interrogator for decades. He says the single most effective interrogation technique is being their friend. That’s where real, reliable, useful information comes from.
Trump will torcher the operative, his relatives and friends and raise their houses and mosques.
...at least I hope he will.
There’d be no ISIS without Bush 43’s secular evangelical crusade. Sadaam was terrible, but dumping him served no strategic interest apart from oil speculation. The oil companies and the CIA should have taken account of the historical fact that the only thing valuable about oil is restricting its distribution, a poor basis for more than a century of international foreign policy.
Sad that the neutered DoD will only allow the "comfy chair" type of interrogation.
All detainees should be released immediately . . . from 35,000 feet.
raze
shovel.
Stoopid auto-correct on phone.
Blindfold them, put them in a Blackhawk and fly around for an hour. Then hover 2 feet off the ground and threaten to throw them out if they don’t talk.
When they refuse throw one out. Have all of them on headsets so they can hear the first one screaming as he falls all of 4 feet. (obviously turn the intercom off before he hits the deck)
Go back to base, taking the first one to another location. Repeat with the others the next day.
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