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Arabia
Saudi Interrogators Try Gentler Approach
2003-12-01
EFL & Sh*ts & Giggles.
Re-run from yesterday, for those who don't read on the weekends...
Saudi Arabia, known for harsh criminal penalties such as beheadings, is trying a gentler approach to get information from some al-Qaida captives. Saudi interrogators often bring clerics and a Quran to their prison interviews to establish a religious fervor connection, a technique that has proved successful in eliciting violence information from terrorist suspects and reorienting them to less violent religious beliefs.
Hmm...
The tactic, similar to the way cult deprogrammers work in the United States, has impressed American counterparts enough that Saudi intelligence was permitted to use some of the principles on their citizens being held at the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Saudi officials said. The technique and missing fingers is being credited in part for the extraordinary public renouncement of violence by two former militant Saudi clerics, Nasser al-Fahd and Ali al-Khudair. They went on state-owned television in the past few weeks to recant their religious edicts promoting violence. "We see this as an important development, one that is getting the attention it needs to get inside Saudi Arabia," U.S. embassy spokesman Carol Kalin said in a telephone interview from Riyadh, the Saudi capital. The religious reorientation is markedly different from some hard-core interrogation tactics that can use sleep deprivation, alternate rewards and punishment and other methods to elicit information.
They almost sound civilized.
Posted by:Dragon Fly

#2  The Koranb approach can make wonders on Jihais. Tajke the BIG annotated edition on thick paper and with heavy covers (preferrently reinforced with metal). Then thump the Jihadi on the head with the Koran until he speaks.
Posted by: JFM   2003-12-1 12:54:14 PM  

#1  I guess anything's worth trying - but the Koran also says it's OK to lie their butts off to infidels until it's safe to reveal their true beliefs. And Muslims who don't agree with them on proselytization methods (that apparently involve mass murder) can be classified as infidels.
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2003-12-1 9:55:24 AM  

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