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2004-05-16 Iraq-Jordan

Start co-operating or weâll hand you over, Saddam told

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Posted by rex 2004-05-16 5:52:26 AM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 They should give him a countdown clock to 0001 July 1.

Posted by Mr. Davis 2004-05-16 3:11:46 PM|| 2004-05-16 3:11:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 #1, they already have, at least implicitly.

Rex, I'm not as critical of the CIA as you. Saddam is a psychopath, and psychopaths are notoriously difficult to interrogate. The fact that he hid in a dirt hole and ate candy bars when necessary doesn't contradict the fact that when he was in power he was very obsessed with his appearance and with hygeine. He's already got a lawyer & expects to have a chance to use his powers of pursuasion soon, but fears being turned over ... yes, none of that is news, but the potential immediacy of either his chance to grandstand or of retribution means the CIA may have an opening to shift him a bit.

If you think getting info from him should have been easy, you haven't got a clue LOL.

Posted by rkb 2004-05-16 3:19:21 PM|| 2004-05-16 3:19:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 He really, really doesn't want to go back to the people who wouldn't think twice about using his own methods against him.

On the other hand, maybe he does; no one ever accused him of being smart.

Posted by The Doctor 2004-05-16 4:02:31 PM|| 2004-05-16 4:02:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Speaking of his mouthpiece, maybe now would be a good time for a legal revolution: the lawyer gets the same penalty as his client. Sure would cut down of weak defenses.

Think of it as evolution in action

Posted by mojo 2004-05-16 4:16:21 PM|| 2004-05-16 4:16:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Denunciation of this interrogation tactic as "humiliation" and "torture" by Teddy Kennedy, Pelosi, and the rest of the LLL moonbat brigade in 5, 4, 3.....

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2004-05-16 4:18:55 PM|| 2004-05-16 4:18:55 PM|| Front Page Top

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