West Bank - Son of executed female collaborator says he was tortured for confession

Associated Press | August 25, 2002

[PLMerite]

"The validity of any confession or information obtained under torture is in most respects worthless."

True. Except where it extracts information that only the guilty would know (and the "interrogators" don't).

Questions like "where did you plant the bomb?" etc.

Turn me loose on those [deleted] down in Git'mo with a pair of bolt cutters and a ham sandwich, and I'll get some information...

[FormerLurker]

True. Except where it extracts information that only the guilty would know (and the "interrogators" don't).
Questions like "where did you plant the bomb?" etc.

What if there WERE no bomb, or the person being "interrrogated" really doesn't know the anwser as he or she really IS innocent?

You'd get an answer eventually, although it'd more than likely be incorrect...

[A_perfect_lady]

Keep up the good work. We have to get this news about Arab culture out and make it visible. The only way to get these bleeding heart idiots among us on track is to make them see the truth. If the fact that Arabs like to blow up children isn't enough, show the world how they treat their own, including women, gays (read New Republic about the torture and murder of homosexuals), and animals (see CNN 'kill the doggie' tapes). If I know my liberals, dead Jews won't move them but dead gays and dogs will.

[TopQuark]

The same methods and mentality as that of the Soviets, particularly under Stalin. Not only we have not learned to recognize this mode of behavior, we once again find apologies for it.

[TopQuark]

That is not the problem: a savage will not kill unless threatened or hungry. This is evil. And very much planned and organized, much like Stalin was. At the time, a lot of people dismissed him as a savage. He stayed in power for much longer than his critics. A mere savage cannot do that, but an evil genius can. We should not repeat the same mistake: Islamic fanatics are not cowards, and their leaders are not savages. (Incidentally, most of them are educated either in Oxford of Massachusetts).

[tetelestai]

Why aren't these thugs identified as terrorists instead of militants? MSNBC labled them "Palestinian fighters." How are they any different than the Taliban?

[Polybius]

Would you turn in your own mother? Even under torture?

Of course not!

That's what mothers-in-law are for.