[steve-b]

Interesting insights from somebody who actually knows what's up.

[rightinthemiddle]

Alexander: “I listened time and time again to foreign fighters, and Sunni Iraqis, state that the number one reason they had decided to pick up arms and join Al Qaeda was the abuses at Abu Ghraib and the authorized torture and abuse at Guantánamo Bay.”

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Thanks to the Media!

[fishtank]

bflr = bump for later reading

[I see my hands]

"Interesting insights from somebody who actually knows what's up"

Maybe he knows what's up but that doesn't make him honest. The man is motivated by ego and BDS. The only insight he provided in the interview was that he is not to be trusted.

[Retain Mike]

I have no evidence to offer for belief of this idea, and I should be castigated for never taking a text to determine if I have the “conspiracy theory” gene. However, I have always wondered whether bin Laden had put a hit on Abu Musab al Zarqawi after the Jordan attack.

[TalonDJ]

Isn’t Harpers a far left rag?

[tsomer]

...I convinced the man who led us to Zarqawi to cooperate after only six hours of interrogation using a relationship-building approach. The old methods of interrogation had failed for twenty days to convince this man to cooperate...

He's taking full credit for what was part of the standard good-cop bad-cop routine.

It's easy to talk nice when a gorilla is backing you.

Another thing I'm not buying: that Abu Graib & Quantanamo made everyone want to be a terrorist. This confuses reasons with excuses.

[Tallguy]

One of the things that bothers me about simply asking a detainee, “why did you take up arms” is the truthfullness of the answers that you get. How do we know that they are playing straight with us? They can say anything.

I think that there is a fair amount of “manipulating the interrogator” going on here. Everybody watches CNN, so the terrorists know how to hit the talking points.

[Eagles6]

"When my group of interrogators reached out to these Sunnis and offered them an alternative to fighting against us –fighting with us–they were easily convinced to cooperate and rejected Al Qaeda. Sometimes all it took was an apology from an American for the mistakes we made at the beginning of the war."

I see this guy traveling the circuit with james yee. Does he think that maybe the Defense Dept. redacted the story of how he "broke" the terrorist for info on zarqawi because they didn't want the bad guys to know of the technique, which they will now know and be able to prepare for.