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Down Under
Oz govt to consider deprogramming terrorists
2006-03-09
Foreign Minister Alexander Downer says the Federal Government will consider the use of a technique to "de-radicalise" terrorists in Australia. Australian Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty says the Government would have to change its policy to allow the technique, where extremists are "deprogrammed" with the help of Muslim clerics. Mr Downer says the Government has not made a decision. But he says the program has worked successfully overseas.
Not that we've heard about here...
"In Europe, in the Middle East and certainly in Indonesia, those governments have made an attempt to persuade extremists and terrorists who've been held in prison to change their point of view and to understand it's not the Islamic way to kill, it's not the Islamic way to murder," he said.
Yeah. They see the light, then run off to Iraq for jihad when they're sprung.
Commissioner Keelty says the technique involves using respected clerics or people previously connected with terrorist organisations to convert extremists and provide information to police.
Posted by:Fred

#18  EEPROM's are erased with sufficiently high voltage. Should work with Jihadis too. Remember to keep the amperage high as well.
Posted by: DMFD   2006-03-09 18:42  

#17  This idea is more evidence that the West is having a really tough time accepting the reality of the situation regarding Moslem extremists. They want to believe it can be fixed somehow, and that the jihadiis can be reformed. After all, who wouldn't want to live the way we do?

Well, guess who?
Posted by: ex-lib   2006-03-09 11:48  

#16  Â Start with the motor functions.

Autonomic, more like.

Deprogramming a computer is easily attained by doing a bit-wipe whereby all registers, buffers, memory blocks, toggles and flags are reset to zero. A similar approach should work splendidly with terrorists. Most people just happen to call it a lobotomy. Any long shank screwdriver should work right fine.
Posted by: Zenster   2006-03-09 11:48  

#15  wretchard has an excellent post about this subject at his blog
Posted by: tipper   2006-03-09 10:54  

#14  Deprogramming works, if you know how to do the Chinese water torture right.

It's more of an art than an exact science.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2006-03-09 10:46  

#13  I suggest ham-stringing(cut Achealies tendon,I think},see how much trouble they can get into crwawling around on thier hands and knees?
Posted by: raptor   2006-03-09 10:39  

#12  The Yemenis tried deprogramming captive terrorists, and found many got back into the game after the "cure."

Actually, the Yemenis in charge of the "deprogramming" were also the ones in charge of tunneling the jihadis out of prison.
Posted by: Robert Crawford   2006-03-09 07:35  

#11  Start with the motor functions.
Posted by: gromgoru   2006-03-09 07:28  

#10  The Soddies pronounced their deprogramming successful...just before the Abaqaiq oil facility nearly blew.
Posted by: Seafarious   2006-03-09 07:16  

#9  I agree with SPoD. This is a silly idea which has no factual basis. Note to Mr Downer and Mr Keelty: There are no respected clerics who've reformed. Either they're now apostates or you've been duped. And you might as well prepare to be further duped repeatedly - this will be the most popular program imaginable among the now-jailed jihadists. A sucker's born every minute.
Posted by: hunter   2006-03-09 05:00  

#8  This kind of deprograming/reprograming works on people who get brainwashed by cults. That isn't the problem here and it will not work. It's also very close to crossing the "torture" line it's self in certain instances.

It is useless against the mental disease these types have. 500 mics of chlorpromazine at meals and a 1000 mics at bed time. Close supervision in a locked down facility . No outside trips. No visitors. No lawyers, Sciencetologists or Imams allowed to visit.
Posted by: SPoD   2006-03-09 03:51  

#7  Hot lead, applied liberally, is the only sure fire method.
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2006-03-09 02:15  

#6  PC idiocy.
Posted by: phil_b   2006-03-09 02:06  

#5  2000 mics
beat the crap out of them and throw them out nude in the snow to wander a bit
then
200 mics every morning for 5 years.

Done.

tune in, turn on, Crap out forever. LOL!
Posted by: RD   2006-03-09 01:05  

#4  2000 mics
beat the crap out of them and throw them out nude in the snow to wander a bit
then
200 mics every morning for 5 years.

Done.
Posted by: 3dc   2006-03-09 00:59  

#3  
dittoes ed, pithing be the way.

/and no Ima not lisping!
Posted by: RD   2006-03-09 00:47  

#2  The Yemenis tried deprogramming captive terrorists, and found many got back into the game after the "cure."
Posted by: Listen To Dogs   2006-03-09 00:36  

#1  Deprogramming is best accomplished via an icepick through the eye socket.
Posted by: ed   2006-03-09 00:29  

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