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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...

AUSTRALIA may seek to interrogate captured al-Qaeda deputy Khalid Sheik Mohammed about the terror organisation's links in South East Asia. Foreign Minister Alexander Downer yesterday said the government was particularly keen to probe Khalid about his knowledge of the Bali bombing and planned attacks by the Indonesian-based extremist group Jemaah Islamyah. Khalid, 38, lived in the Philippines in the early-1990s, and is believed to have been instrumental in setting up extremist terror groups during that time. Mr Downer admitted Australia was unlikely to get access to Khalid for some time but he expected the US to share results of its...

MIDI - CABARET Khalid Mohammed is in our control…he'll talk, you're gonna see To get the info right away…make him do Hillary Sleep deprivation, I guess, is okay…but if it's up to me I wouldn't waste a moment, friends…make him do Hillary He'll spot her rear…you'll see his fear He'll realize that he's not dreaming…very soon we'll hear him screaming Though some may claim that it's too inhumane...there'll be no apology To get the info right away…make him do Hillary He'll spot her rear…you'll see his fear He'll realize that he's not dreaming…very soon we'll hear him screaming We'll...

A Reagan-era directive forbids torturing Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, but law enforcement sources say the urgent interrogation of the captured Sept. 11 mastermind now underway is far from gentle. The CIA is keeping the exhausted Mohammed awake with bursts of light in his cell, two sources said. "They will darken the room for a minute so he closes his eyes, then blast him with strobe lights," said one. "There are ways that information can be obtained without torturing someone," he added. The CIA also could threaten to hand Mohammed over to a foreign government that isn't restricted by a torture ban....

<p>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.</p> <p>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 — the old-fashioned way, right out of the movies with putting out cigarettes on his testicles, breaking his ribs, the whole brutal nine yards. It took two weeks and finally he broke, revealing a plot to hijack 11 airliners. By exposing and unraveling the plot, the torture saved hundreds, perhaps thousands of lives, so it was clearly justified.</p>

<p>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.</p> <p>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 — the old-fashioned way, right out of the movies with putting out cigarettes on his testicles, breaking his ribs, the whole brutal nine yards. It took two weeks and finally he broke, revealing a plot to hijack 11 airliners. By exposing and unraveling the plot, the torture saved hundreds, perhaps thousands of lives, so it was clearly justified.</p>