How to Make Terrorists Talk

Time ^ | 5/29/09 | Bobby Ghosh

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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.

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Awww. Isn’t that cute? All it took to tame the big, bad terrorist was a plate of cookies.

We’ve been going about it all wrong!! Thanks TIME magazine!

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Just when you thought that “professional journalists” could not become sillier, they come up with something like this.

Just think. If would have sent Adolf Hitler a few Girl Scout cookies, he would have surrendered without a fight.

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Isn't Time great for this?

Terrorists cut our heads off without any want of information.
And we give them cookies. Oh Joy.

Soon Obama will invite all of them to the White House for cookies and insulin.

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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... ...It took more questioning, and some interrogators' sleight of hand, before the Yemeni gave up a wealth of information about al-Qaeda - including the identities of seven of the 9/11 bombers - but the cookies were the turning point...

All it took was a handful of sugar-free cookies ... some interrogators' "sleight of hand" and a full year in a miserable third world jail without a Michelin star rating ...and he finally gave up some year-old very dated info to an interrogator named "Ali Soufan."

Of course if the only interrogation method we ever used was cookies the liberals would still claim it was a "harsh technique" and "torture" - we'd be told the cookies weren't gluten-free, or Dick Cheney put peanuts in them knowing terrorists could have food allergies.