Posted on 04/13/2008 8:46:43 PM PDT by BGHater
Israel's internal security agency admits that, in order to extract confessions from Palestinian suspects, it has arrested prisoner's relatives on false charges.
A senior official of Shin Bet says the security agency should have used different methods, but he contends there was only one occasion when Israeli interrogators broke the rules set for them. He was reacting to a report about Shin Bet's interrogation techniques, prepared by the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel.
The anti-torture group says the security agency has arrested Palestinian suspects' family members, or pretended to arrest them, on a number of occasions to break down prisoners' resistance to questioning. It contends the tactic causes severe psychological suffering, and in some cases amounts to torture.
In one case, the rights group said, a subject who had been warned to cooperate was shown his weeping mother being aggressively questioned in another room.
The anti-torture committee said the mother was subsequently indicted on a marginal charge to justify what it called her false arrest. The group says such tactics illegally exploit detainees and should be explicitly prohibited.
The unidentified Shin Bet official, said to be the head of the agency's interrogation and investigation unit, said Israel no longer detains prisoners' relatives to force their confessions. He appeared at a public meeting in Jerusalem on Sunday convened by the Israeli parliament's constitution, law and justice committee.
Correct title: 'Israel's Shin Bet Admits It Held Palestinian Suspects' Relatives as Pressure Tactic to Win Confessions'
It isn't as if these people's (and I use the term loosely) family members were building bombs to blow up innocent Israelis.
Forgive me. I forgot. They were planning to blow up Jews and Jewish blood has always been cheap.
I’m going to loose sleep over this! </sarcasm>
Tell me, Mr. Robertson, what was Lt. Hancock’s reason for putting Boer prisoners on open cattle cars on the trains?
Well the Boers had been mining the lines and blowing up a lot of trains. He thought it might stop them.
Well, did it?
[Robertson looks at the prosecutor]
Did it?
Yes, but I don’t think...
> The anti-torture group says the security agency has arrested Palestinian suspects’ family members, or pretended to arrest them, on a number of occasions to break down prisoners’ resistance to questioning. It contends the tactic causes severe psychological suffering, and in some cases amounts to torture.
It’s tough to get worked in a lather over this — I’ve tried and failed. No orange jumpsuits, no naked pyramids, no underpants-on-head, no dogs barking...
Lucky thing, these PLO guys are getting off light compared with those poor souls in Gitmo and Abu Ghraib. Now *that’s* torture.
Shin Bet ought all to be fired: they’ve resorted to harsh language, which will never do. Whatever happened to their good manners?
Gee, “mean ole Shin Bat”! They didn’t talk real, real nice to the prisoners or their families. They didn’t get them a room at the local Hilton and ensure proper room service for them. Boo-effing-hoo. I’ll get the world’s smallest violin and see what tune I can play.
If these terrorists pulled a terrorist act in Iran, parts of Iraq and Afghanistan, Paksitan, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Libya, North Korea or Zimabwe, I think they’d have gotten a lot worse than having themselves and their relatives talked “mean to” by the interrogators!
Amalekstinians and their enablers are the world’s biggest bawl babies, except for San Francisco and various campuses.
> If these terrorists pulled a terrorist act in Iran, parts of Iraq and Afghanistan, Paksitan, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Libya, North Korea or Zimabwe, I think they’d have gotten a lot worse than having themselves and their relatives talked “mean to” by the interrogators!
If they had got stopped for speeding in Alabama or parts of Queensland they would have been in for a lot worse than getting talked “mean to” by the interrogators!
Like I said, these “Shin Bet” folks need to do some book learning if that’s their idea of “torture”/s
(Actually this publicity stunt by the Pallys is straight from the al Qaeda Field Manual, Lesson #18. They know dam’n well that this isn’t “torture” and they know dam’n well how to play the west like a harmonica. And they know that there are people in the West who a) are gullible enough and b) dislike Jews and Americans enough to believe them.
The Pallys can thank their Devil God that Shin Bet/or the Mossad and/or the CIA didn’t want to get playful with them. That would would really have spoiled their evening.)
Israel's internal security agency admits that, in order to extract confessions from Palestinian suspects, it LIED TO PRISONERS AND TOLD THEM has arrested prisoner's relatives on false charges.
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Palestinian Committee In Favor of Torture
Right on!!!!!!
Yes, but has the General Security Services admitted doing this to right-wing Jews?
Ahahaha. What a can of worms you’ve opened. ;)
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