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Former Dictator's Defiance Calls for the CIA's Sophisticated Psychological Tricks
From www.abcnews.com
Interrogation Strategies
U.S. officials say there are a variety of methods the CIA will likely try to make Saddam talk.
Interrogators may wake him up at odd hours in order to disorient him and weaken him. They may show him torture videos - the same ones he sent to relatives of his victims - to prove just how strong a case the United States has against him for a trial on charges of crimes against humanity.
Interrogators could "potentially really scare him by revealing a lot of the evidence about his atrocities and other things, and then sort of maybe offer him a way out," said Vickers.
Although the 9/11 attacks reignited a debate on the use of torture, for which a substantial part of the population has a lingering fondness derived from watching "NYPD Blue," officially its use is forbidden. The CIA, however, is reported to be aggressively pushing the envelope of allowed methods, using methods that stop just short of torture:
--Depriving him of food for a day, then knocking on his cell door announcing "Pepperoni Pizza for the Man responsible for Gassing the Kurds!"
--Putting cricket in cell. If he kills cricket, pipe in cricket sounds
--Putting mime in cell. If he kills mime, pipe in "mime sounds"
--Tell him he's no longer Saddam; now he's "number six."
--Using trick questions like "Anyone who wasn't responsible for not failing to give the order that did not stop his thugs from killing 10,000 marsh Arabs, raise your hand to deny you're that person."
--Trading privileges for info: If he reveals WMD stocks, they let him torture mice in cell.
--Showing him "Survivor" and withholding final episode until he talks
--If he cooperates, substituted conjugal visits with harem girl for conjugal visits with angry Kurds
--Get to know him, then say "We're having some trouble committing genocide against the Afghans ... do you have any tips for us?"
--The comfy chair.
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