Forget Waterboarding, Try Sugar-Free Cookies!
Liberals, Media Bias, Terrorism — By Harrison on June 2, 2009 at 12:00 pm
The brand terrorists most prefer!
I first read about this story at Gateway Pundit and I couldn’t believe it, I actually had to go to the source listed to see with my own eyes:
The most successful interrogation of an Al-Qaeda operative by U.S. officials required no sleep deprivation, no slapping or “walling” and no waterboarding. All it took to soften up Abu Jandal, who had been closer to Osama bin Laden than any other terrorist ever captured, was a handful of sugar-free cookies.
Abu Jandal’s guards were so intimidated by him, they wore masks to hide their identities and begged visitors not to refer to them by name in his presence. He had no intention of cooperating with the Americans; at their first meetings, he refused even to look at them and ranted about the evils of the West. Far from confirming al-Qaeda’s involvement in 9/11, he insisted the attacks had been orchestrated by Israel’s Mossad. While Abu Jandal was venting his spleen, Soufan noticed that he didn’t touch any of the cookies that had been served with tea: “He was a diabetic and couldn’t eat anything with sugar in it.” At their next meeting, the Americans brought him some sugar-free cookies, a gesture that took the edge off Abu Jandal’s angry demeanor. “We had showed him respect, and we had done this nice thing for him,” Soufan recalls. “So he started talking to us instead of giving us lectures.”
Will the Liberal media stop at nothing to make us believe that terrorist intent upon killing innocents will change their ways if they are simply given a little respect and sugar-free cookies? Did the Vietnamese try this technique on John McCain when he was a POW?
Those who would deny our right to learn the plans about terrorist activities would rather perpetuate a myth that kindness will get you anywhere you need to go.
I suppose their idea about “harsh” interrogation techniques would be to give a diabetic sugar cookies and threaten to withold insulin before they go into diabetic shock? No, that would be too dangerous.
Maybe the next time someone breaks into your house and tries to rob and murder you the correct response should instead be to offer to heat up some leftovers because maybe the robbery is motivated by hunger, not evil.
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Did the Vietnamese try this technique on John McCain when he was a POW?
Nope, they tortured him.
That’s too bad. Some sugar-free cookies probably would have done it!
So you’re okay with them torturing John McCain?
phuckpolitics’s last blog post..This country is full of morons
I think on his treatment by the Viet Cong he and I are in agreement.
So that means your against torture?
It means I’m against what the Viet Cong did to McCain.
What did the Viet Cong do to John McCain?
phuckpolitics’s last blog post..This country is full of morons
You can read about it here if you don’t know:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCain#Prisoner_of_war
Thanks for the link. Looks like the Viet Cong tortured the shit out of John McCain. Wouldn’t you say so?
phuckpolitics’s last blog post..This country is full of morons
Hanoi Hilton not known for customer service.
Osama bin Laden’s bodyguard, Abu Jandal, was a prime candidate for waterboarding, according to Dick Cheney’s manual of interrogation techniques. But, according to a Time magazine report, former FBI interrogator Ali Soufan gave him cookies instead. It seems that Abu Jandal is a diabetic, and he gave up valuable information about al Qaeda, including the identities of seven of the 9/11 terrorists, after being given sugar-free cookies. But what about the “ticking time-bomb scenario?” We only have minutes to stop the hypothetical ticking time-bomb, as seen in movies and TV shows like “24″. In this case, let’s say we don’t have access to baked goods. Recent reports indicate that interrogators used bottled water to torture terrorist suspects. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times. In other words, the first 182 times were unsuccessful, and the 183rd gave us this information: A water bottle was brought in without the label removed, he told the Red Cross, and it was a brand made in Poland, where he was being held at the time.
Paul Solomon’s last blog post..Waterboarding Vs. Cookies
Each waterboarding “session” lasted 2-3 seconds.