Posted on 10/22/2001 3:55:35 AM PDT by spycatcher
Certainly. You've convinced me you're a posturing windbag. You are one whether the story is true or not.
Chorus: "Two people had to hold me back from beating the snot out of him."
If smallpox is next we may not be around to debate it.
These guys gave up any right to being treated like humans when they fried and crushed 6,000 people in an office building
I say kill them, once you get what you want. After they tel you who their accomplices are, kill them. And then kill the families of the terrorists, so that the very idea of of being a terrorist has such a stigma that no one will ever want to do it.
TG, you fail to see that there is no grey area. This is not a post-modern academic argument.
If you think what I have proposed is extreme, let me tell you: that's what the terrorists want to do to you.
"There's no doubt that torturing terrorists and their associates for information works. In 1995, Philippine intelligence agents tortured Abdul Hakim Murad, whom they arrested after he blew up his apartment making bombs. The agents threw a chair at Murad's head, broke his ribs, forced water into his mouth, and put cigarettes out on his genitals, but Murad didn't talk until agents masquerading as the Mossad threatened to take him back to Israel for some real questioning. Murad named names. His confession included details of a plot to kill Pope John Paul II, as well as plots to crash 11 U.S. airliners into the ocean and to fly an airplane into the CIA headquarters in Langley, Va. His co-conspirator Ramzi Yousef was later convicted for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Similarly unappealing methods helped the CIA uncover the millennium bomb plot of 1999, after al-Qaida terrorists were questioned in Egypt and Jordan."
From what I understand, most US POW's will and have talked under torture without shame. The ones who end up despised by peers are the ones who simply tell everything when asked. Not sure how this compares with your training but here's the CIA torture manual
---max
In September 99 the Israel Suprume Court said NO to the "ticking bomb" excuse. All forms of torture are illegal without exception. However, an interrogator can plead "ticking bomb" and take his chances with the court. JUDGEMENT HERE
But let me ask you in the event of someone close to you having been kidnapped and the police have one of the kidnappers who know where they hostage is being held but won't talk even after truth serum has been tried.
What do you suggest next given that there is no way the kidnapper's demands can be met.
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