Interrogating KSM

Washington Times ^ | 3/05/03 | Jack Wheeler

[kattracks]

With the capture of top al Qaeda terrorist Khalid Shaikh Mohammed (known as "KSM"), getting him to disgorge the contents of his brain quickly and truthfully is critically necessary before his network has a chance to vanish undercover.

What, then, would the most efficient and effective form of interrogation be? In 1995, the Philippine State Police captured an al Qaeda agent. They knew he was planning some terrorist act, but didn't know what. So they tortured him

[MHGinTN]

Suffocation is a useful tool, but I suspect there are better ways than Pavulon to accomplish the paralysis of the diaphram and allow the mouth and larnyx to work.

[vbmoneyspender]

Now the interrogation begins. KSM is asked a series of questions to which the answers are known (e.g., Are you a Muslim? Would you like a drink of pig grease?). If he lies, the respirator is turned off. Few experiences are more terrifying than that of suffocation. After a sufficiently terrifying period of suffocation, the respirator is turned back on, the question is asked again, and the process repeated until he tells the truth. Once you have the regions in KSM's brain clearly distinguished that light up when he is lying or telling the truth, the serious questioning starts. It will not take long, an hour or two at the most, before KSM is singing like a full chorus of canaries.

Wow!

[Husker24]

disgorge the contents of his brain quickly

cant argue with that!

[fooman]

I have been argueing for use of fmri and torture for some time on these forums.

I was wrong about the truth serum though.

I would like weenies try to refute this...

[nevergiveup]

This is a very disturbing and reckless article. Doesn't Jack Wheeler know how expensive it is to overnight Fed Ex an MRI unit. They are very very heavy. Instead, I recommend that we just send it via UPS Blue Label. It would only add an extra day to deliver but is much cheaper. And we can use that extra night to start sleep deprivation.

[MHGinTN]

I'm thinking direct injections to the diaphram would be in order, rather than SCC or Pavulon ... you want his larnyx and mouth to work well while having to depend entirely on the operation of the respirator to breath ... total dependence on the interrogators to stay alive.

[MHGinTN]

You don't want the demonic bastard to have a heart attack either and cheat the interrogation process.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

How could he talk if his diaphragm (and presumably other muscles) is paralyzed? This makes little sense... and is a rather freakish piece to begin with.

[MHGinTN]

Of course a plastic bag is a lot cheaper than the machinery and more readily available. The mob has been using the technique for decades.

[Conservative4Ever]

Yeah...Wow.

Red

[jlogajan]

by an M.D. anesthesiologist of SCC into the nerve tracts leading to the diaphragm will paralyze the muscles needed for breathing.

This is crazy. You don't mess with a near death situation since the risk is you'll lose your prized source of info. Nonsense.

[The Red Zone]

Good idea. With this augmentation: out of sight of the victim, have a couple of tubes noiselessly feeding oxygen into the bag and pulling stale air out, enough so that he really does not suffocate.

[dk/coro]

Works for me.

However, as an economical anf foolproof alternative, we might want to utilize My Wife as an interrogator: Unquestioned utility and flawless results in a timely manner !!

You see, in my younger days, everytime I lingered a bit too long at the "19th Hole" with the boys -- or overstayed my Friday Happy Hours at Old Breezy Point "O-Club" at NAS Norfolk, she would simply give me "The Look" (and cut me off for a few days, as well). *S*

A very effective tool, indeed. I would spill the beans and beg forgiveness at the same time!! OBL's boys had better never screw with a pi**ed-off Navy Wife. Not only would the Virgins be out of the question; the scumbag would have wished he had never been born !!

Go Bush !!! What a Profile in Courage !!!

[ninonitti]

You don't want the demonic bastard to have a heart attack either and cheat the interrogation process.

My thoughts exactly. From the famous photo of him in custody I'd be willing to wager that he hasn't missed too many meals while on the lam(b!). Put him on the treadmill for a stress test first.

Then wire him up to the crank telephone....."New York on the line for you Mo!"

[Theresawithanh]

Sounds good to me! No mercy for those who have no mercy. Never forget what this man is part of, the deaths of 300-plus innocents on our soil!

[Theresawithanh]

Oops, I mean 3000-plus

[Greybird]

Beyond parody, beyond sarcasm, beyond disgust.

No, I'm not just talking about Wheeler's dementia. I'm talking about the response above to it, as well.

Compared to this rationalizing, a thermonuclear device dropped on Baghdad would be a model of moral rectitude.

If we descend to this level of extrajudicial punishment, "justifying" it by doing so outside U.S. territory so that it's no longer constitutionally "cruel or unusual," the terrorists have won. That is, if turning our airports into mini-police-States hasn't handed them the prize already.

Are Americans to support torture? Can you let your adolescent sons or daughters read a suggestion such as this one (not the first from the despicable Wheeler) and say, with a straight face and a clean heart, "Forget what we've told you about following moral rules. Here, there are no rules"?

[Greybird]

Your comment: Suffocation is a useful tool, but I suspect there are better ways than Pavulon to accomplish the paralysis of the diaphra[g]m and allow the mouth and larnyx to work.

Your tagline: If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote Life Support for others.

Are you incapable of perceiving irony? Or even a mere contradiction? You seem to be.

[Ajnin]

I say just pull his eyeballs out of the sockets with dental tools. When they dry out and become itchy he'll tell.