We Have Ways of Making You Talk
Newsweek
The United States figures it can get plenty out of the newly captured Chemical Ali. But how? And are these ‘interrogation’ techniques being readied for American citizens?
"we could use] a torture warrant, which puts a heavy burden on the government to demonstrate by factual evidence the necessity to administer this horrible, horrible technique of torture. I would talk about nonlethal torture, say, a sterilized needle underneath the nail, which would violate the Geneva Accords, but you know, countries all over the world violate the Geneva Accords. They do it secretly and hypothetically, the way the French did it in Algeria."
A choice among evils Should the US torture al-Qaeda mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed in a bid to head off more terrorism? The answer, says jurist ALAN DERSHOWITZ, looks into the very heart of America
We have your sons: CIA Two young sons of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the September 11 attacks, are being used by the CIA to force their father to talk.Yousef al-Khalid, 9, and his brother, Abed al-Khalid, 7, were taken into custody in Pakistan in September when intelligence officers raided a flat in Karachi where their father had been hiding.
WASHINGTON TIMES: "The ethics of torturing KSM should not be an issue. As a practical matter, the question is: How to torture him in such a way that it takes hours, not days or weeks, for him to break"
The report said "blunt force trauma" had contributed to the deaths.
FLASHBACK: CIA accused of torture at Bagram base
Fears that US will use 'torture lite' on al-Qaida No 3 The White House denied he was being tortured, although there is speculation that a variety of techniques known in the intelligence community as "torture lite" would be used to get information from him.
