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How to Make Terrorists Talk
Time ^ | 5/29/09 | Bobby Ghosh

Posted on 05/29/2009 8:21:20 PM PDT by sig226

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.

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"He was a diabetic and couldn't eat anything with sugar in it." At their next meeting, the Americans brought him some sugar-free cookies, a gesture that took the edge off Abu Jandal's angry demeanor.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: abujandal; bleedingheartattack; cookietorture; jandal; tm
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Well, almost. Any diabetic can tell you that it's not the sugar, it's the carbohydrates. Sucrose, the sugar typically found in a cookie, is converted into glucose by the body. Starch and other nutrients are likewise converted to glucose. Excessive blood sugar is called hypglycemia, from the Greek root glyks, the same as glucose. It means sweet.

So, sugar cookies, popcorn, figs, whatever - food raises blood sugar. Most diabetics know this. Most non diabetics do not, and think they can impress people by using this generalization.

I have a big problem with this story as it is presented. The TIME presentation of it is typical of their editorializing.

1 posted on 05/29/2009 8:21:21 PM PDT by sig226
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So, if we give Islamofascist terrorists some cookies, they’ll tell us everything we need to know? Awesome! Imagine what we could get with a couple of Klondike bars.


2 posted on 05/29/2009 8:26:02 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Gibbs needs to be "exceedingly careful" when threatening the American people.)
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To: sig226

Oh, please. I suppose they were singing Kumbaya when they offered him the cookies, and that calmed him down, too. Time magazine is so stupidly transparent in pushing its agenda that it’s no wonder no one reads it and it is in financial deep do-do.


3 posted on 05/29/2009 8:26:25 PM PDT by La Lydia (.)
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To: sig226

That’s cookie boarding!


4 posted on 05/29/2009 8:27:17 PM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it!)
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To: sig226

my way.....blindfold the terrorist son of a bitch. tie him securely, standing nude upright, between a pair steel poles. set a lit blowtorch on a table, close enough where he can hear/feel the thing. wait 10 minutes. take off the blindfold. he will then talk. if for some reason he thinks he’s a tough guy, cook his ass. if he still doesn’t talk, kill ‘im and repeat the process with terrorist number 2.


5 posted on 05/29/2009 8:29:39 PM PDT by bobby.223
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To: La Lydia

Good... all we need is more cookies. POtuS might be able to pull that one off................ with some help.


6 posted on 05/29/2009 8:29:43 PM PDT by ataDude (Its like 1933, mixed with the Carter 70s, plus the books 1984 and Animal Farm, all at the same time.)
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To: sig226

The key to “Peace” in the Middle East might be to just send Mikey Jackson over there for a sleepover with some “warm milk and cookies?” Time might be on to something here.


7 posted on 05/29/2009 8:33:32 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Gibbs needs to be "exceedingly careful" when threatening the American people.)
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To: sig226

Call Ziva David!


8 posted on 05/29/2009 8:34:48 PM PDT by lilylangtree (Veni, Vidi, Vici)
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To: sig226

I find sugar free stuff raises my blood sugar nearly as much as sugary treats, esp. the candies.


9 posted on 05/29/2009 8:38:52 PM PDT by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL.)
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Has anyone ever been tickled? Under duress of tickling I will do just about anything to make it stop. I wonder if we’ve tried that.


10 posted on 05/29/2009 8:45:09 PM PDT by exist
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Oh geez...cookies?? This is the best that those lily-bellied libs could come up with? And I thought bringing them to McDonald’s would make them talk (sarc/)


11 posted on 05/29/2009 8:45:56 PM PDT by max americana
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Manilow. 24/7.

Wait. Liberals will claim it’s worse torture than waterboarding! Scratch that, back to the drawing board!


12 posted on 05/29/2009 8:51:09 PM PDT by pillut48 (CJ in TX --"God help us all, and God help America!!" --my new mantra for the next 4 years)
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To: La Lydia

Of course they were singing Kumbaya. That’s how the civilized liberals do it.


13 posted on 05/29/2009 8:54:30 PM PDT by bboop (obama, little o, not a Real God)
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To: sig226

I have a plan:

It involves IVs and draining blood, explaining what is going to happen before it is done. (Anyone donating blood should remember how weird it feels, and that’s when they’re trying to be ‘nice’.)

It also could involve some alcohol in such a low-blood state... it’ll be quite effective. (Yeah, there is that No Alcohol thing in the Koran.)

Finally, it involves returning their own blood, and if the psychological hit is needed, inform him that it’s pig’s blood being put into him.

Yeah, I’m cruel at times.


14 posted on 05/29/2009 8:56:27 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: exist

withhold chocolate and i will confess to being responsible for everything that has ever gone wrong from the beginning of the world to date. give me chocolate and no one gets hurt.


15 posted on 05/29/2009 9:00:37 PM PDT by madamemayhem (there are only two places in the world: over here and over there.)
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To: bobby.223

i would add that making terrorist number 2 watch the process with terrorist number 1 could make the 2nd more talkative.


16 posted on 05/29/2009 9:02:04 PM PDT by madamemayhem (there are only two places in the world: over here and over there.)
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To: madamemayhem

great point, I will add that to the procedure’s SOP.


17 posted on 05/29/2009 9:18:56 PM PDT by bobby.223
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To: lilylangtree

lol
From the last episode, she looks to be in trouble.


18 posted on 05/29/2009 9:46:43 PM PDT by ozaukeemom (It's Obama's fault.)
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To: exist
Has anyone ever been tickled? Under duress of tickling I will do just about anything to make it stop. I wonder if we’ve tried that.

To think like a Muslim you could take that to a great type of torture.
Let a woman tickle his balls with a feather.
Muslim men would find having a woman have a power over them worse than any REAL torture. They would get so outraged that water boarding would be nothing. They would go into such a rage they could not control themselves and consequently would spill all the beans (so to speak).

19 posted on 05/29/2009 10:16:40 PM PDT by jongaltsr (Hope to See ya in Galt's Gulch.)
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To: sig226

Terrorist: “Ahhh This is great soup!!! What is in it???

Interrogator: “Pork”


20 posted on 05/29/2009 11:10:53 PM PDT by Safrguns
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