Posted on 03/04/2003 7:03:09 AM PST by shortstop
It's not a question of whether we should kill him, it's whether we should torture him first.
I'm talking about Khalid Shaikh Mohammed.
The "mastermind" of Al Qaeda, the guy who came up with September 11.
The guy who helped bomb the World Trade Center in 1993.
And who wanted to blow up 11 U.S. jetliners and crash another one into the CIA headquarters. The guy who blew up our embassies in Africa and who attacked the USS Cole and who killed Daniel Pearl and blew up that Tunisian synagogue.
That guy.
We all know how his story is going to end. He will die at the whim of the United States government.
The question is: What do we do with him until then?
Should we hook the generator to his testicles and let it rip? Do we put him in thumb screws? Do we turn him over to his countrymen and let them use their magic on him? Do we beat him with rubber hoses?
In short, do we treat him the way he has treated us? Short answer: Not exactly.
Long answer: Physical torture is not the American way, but using any means necessary to get information from a man who may know about looming terrorist attacks is the wisest and only course of action.
Because right now the issue isn't punishing Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, it is pumping him dry. By hook or by crook, every retrievable bit of useful information must be pulled from him. American lives are at stake and they are all that counts.
Presumably, he is not going to eagerly cooperate.
Presumably, he has contemplated his eventual capture for years. Presumably, he has steeled himself against the pressure of interrogation.
But presumably he's no match for the CIA.
Again, nobody is recommending or condoning physical torture. But physical discomfort along with disorientation and psychological torture and manipulation, even the use of drugs, are all things that should be considered and used. Put another way, we should screw with his head big time. We should befriend him, threaten him, confuse him, deceive him, whatever we need to to turn him to our purposes.
We should remember that he is a tool, not only in our own defense, but in the attack against his people and fellow-believers. Theirs is a war of slaughter and terror, they seek to create fear as well as mayhem. So we should use him to cause as much fear among them as possible.
And, no, he doesn't get a lawyer.
Not for a long time.
And when he does, that lawyer should wear an American military uniform. This fellow is why they have military tribunals.
And cemeteries.
We use him for everything he's worth, we exploit his name, face and mind, and then we throw him away. We make him an example for those who would follow him. This man -- as a college student in the United States -- knows all about the hospitality of our country. Now it is time for him to learn of our might. And our resolve.
He is not an accused American criminal, he is an apprehended enemy combatant. Actually, he is less than that. He does not represent an organization or state that signed the Geneva Conventions, he has no protections under international law.
He is, technically, screwed. And nobody should realize that more than he.
We all know what's going to happen. Now it's just a question of whether it's the easy way or the hard way.
Put him on trial and convict him of terrorism and mass murder and send him to prison. My custom made prison, just for him and his fellow-jihadis.
His uniform jumpsuit and bedding will be woven out of Owens-Corning fiberglass insulation.
The light in his cell will be provided by one fluorescent fixture that will be on 24/7, and set behind a lexan panel so it can't be broken. One tube will flicker, giving off a constant buzz.
The sink and toilet fixture in his cell will be stainless steel, and the tap will have a slow drip. The toilet will overflow at odd intervals, even when he hasn't flushed it, and the backpressure will spew the contents of the trap out to cover a radius of four or five feet. It will be placed at the head of his bed.
His bed will be a concrete slab set into the wall so that it slopes downward at a 15 degree angle.
The floor of his cell will have an electrical grid that will energize with house current from time to time.
"Afternoon Delight" by the Starland Vocal Band will blast at 124dB from speakers in his cell, sometimes just a snippet of the song, sometimes over and over for hours.
Rats and roaches will crawl up from the floor drain to build nests in his nostrils while he sleeps.
The NYPD ESU will practice cell extractions in his cell.
After a year or so of this treatment, when he has developed a constant twitch and messes his fiberglass jumpsuit at every movement, sound or flash of light, he will be transported to the lawn in front of the section of the Pentagon damaged in the 09.11.01 attacks, and he will be beaten to death by the bare hands of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
Only then will he be fed to pigs.
All of this will be broadcast live worldwide via satellite. Commercial free.
2. While he is unconscious implant some speakers in his ear. Get him delirious and start broadcasting in such a way as to make him think God is talking to him. Of course this particular "God" would definitely be displeased with him and inform him that he was following Satan's wishes all along.
This demonic beast does not deserve a quick death, its much too easy for the likes of him. He should be kept alive as long as possible, in a state of agony.
There is nothing we can do to him that is as horrible as what he has done to us, but this is as close as we'll come.
Set him on fire, first.
Perhaps, but there is an incredible amount of frustration at 9/11, have to vent it somehow... The thought of him reaping what he has sown makes me happy, and I'm not ashamed of that. Just what would you propose to do to this guy?
After a bit of "recuperation", bring him to Friday services. The service will consist of breast-beating and self-flagelation about the evil heritage of 20th-21st century Islam -- imagine a lecture on American history written by Noam Chomsky and do a few obvious conversions -- interspersed with self-righteous lectures about the duty of all Moslems to give special rights to women, gays, and infidels to make up for the sins of their wicked ancestors.
Smear his eys and privates with honey and stake him to a large army-ant bed.
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