Somebody has their work cut out for them.
If he still fails to talk, drown one of his friends in a vat of pig blood.
And so on.
--Boris
In this case I would suggest that the word "severe" not be viewed in absolute terms, but relative to the pain and suffering he has inflicted. Let's see, what would be severe relative to being burned or crushed to death 3000 times?
Then when they are finished with him, bury him alive in a drum almost filled to the top with pig guts and blood.
Take the blindfolded perp into a running helicopter, rumble around a bit, then, when he doesn't talk, shove him out the door.
When he finally stops screaming, and realizes the chopper was still on or very near the ground, say, "Next time, we go up!" < LOL >
Easy. Find some six-foot tall, wiry special forces guy and cover him with a burqa. Have him walk into the room where the terrorist is being interrogated, and tell him that Janet Reno is naked under the burqa and they'll pull it off if he doesn't talk.
Somebody has their work cut out for them.
We ran the largest P.O.W. training camp in the military at the time. I worked as an interrogator in our camp for two years.........and was very, very well trained by active duty experts.
That experience stuck with me like you can't believe, lo these 25 years later.
Even in training, let me tell you that it all gets QUITE real to the "prisoners" very quickly. This was not long after Vietnam, and we had a fair number of former Hanoi Hilton residents (God bless 'em all) as on-site observers and advisors.
I can also tell you that, point blank, it is remarkably easy to make someone talk WITHOUT torture. I brought hulking beasts twice my size to tears..........literally sobbing tears............in less than half an hour without laying a hand on them. They were all given "stories" to protect, and I got every last tidbit out of 'em.
I was damned good at what I did (more than one former P.O.W. looked me in the eye after viewing one of my interrogations and paid me the supreme compliment: "You're quite an asshole. Reminded me too much of a couple guys in Hanoi. Great job.")...........but I can tell you that it was the TRAINING I received from the experts. I consider myself nothing more than an amateur at best, and I assure you that I could get these guys to sing like birds.
Trust me.........our REAL experts will know what these guys' mothers fed them for breakfast 20 years ago before they're through, and they won't utilize "torture" to do it.
Just gimmie a hammer 'n blow torch and I'll make anybody talk
Al Capone
Play this NON-STOP . . .
Make a tape of his two young sons. Put yamakas on their heads, and maorahs in their hands. Have them say this "Daddy, we have decided to become Jews. We love the Jews. When we grow up, we are going to teach our children to be good Jews.
The Muslims are so bad to the Jews, the Muslims must stop killing the good Jews and let the Jews live in peace in their city Jeruselum.
Mommy has become a good Jew and all of our family has decided to become good Jews. I miss you daddy. Have a nice day!"
I guarantee, this will shake up the Shake! He'll talk!
A friend of mine spent his time in Viet Nam on missions behind enemy lines. He taped a grenade to his equipment belt suspender so he wouldn't accidently throw his last one in the heat of battle. He saved one for himself and whoever got close to him if the need arose, in short he was not going to be taken alive because he knew he'd face a long painful road if he was. With all the publicity of the US outsourcing the POW interogations to countries that allow torture I can't see too many of these terrorists surrendering in the future.
They won't be able to shut him up!