Posted on 02/07/2002 10:53:24 AM PST by ppaul
GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba — Many of the al Qaeda and Taliban captives imprisoned at the U.S. naval base here are locked in a war of wills with their American captors, resisting giving information as interrogators devise ways to get them talking, such as engaging them in discussion about the Koran, U.S. government officials said.
AT THE SAME TIME, U.S. questioners have begun to make progress in unearthing intelligence information from some of the alleged terrorist prisoners, especially a few of the younger ones, sources said. Government officials said the strategy is to make the detainees feel comfortable with their treatment, while applying subtle psychological pressure.
Informed government officials said that U.S. personnel are carefully observing the behavior of each of the 158 prisoners - down to how much food they eat, and how long they pace in their cells - and that each presents a different psychological profile.
“There are some very hardened, trained individuals who are watching us and biding their time,” said a knowledgeable U.S. government official. “Others are just resisting.”
The U.S. military has been interrogating 324 other prisoners in two prisons in Afghanistan, and an undetermined number from that group were being flown to Cuba yesterday aboard an Air Force C-17. Officials said most of the rest are likely to be moved here in coming months. It is unclear how officials decide on whom to move first. Of the 158 prisoners in Cuba, the largest group of about 50 are Saudi.
Both the prisoners and the U.S. guards were extremely tense in the first weeks after the first prisoners arrived Jan. 11, but the atmosphere soon eased once U.S. officials allowed the detainees to start talking, U.S. personnel said.
Many captives speak in English or their own language. But officials said they are wary that some of the most talkative and seemingly cooperative detainees are angling to lull the Americans into slipping up somehow. Officials think that while detainees may harbor fantasies of escape, the real goal of some is simply to kill or maim a guard.
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Engaging them in discussions about the Koran.....Officials think that while detainees may harbor fantasies of escape, the real goal of some is simply to kill or maim a guard.Experts in the "Religion of Peace".....Terrorists. Cutthroats. Murderers.
What????? No rubber hoses on Gitmo?
Maybe if the army sponsored a day when the family members of the WTC and Pentagon victims go to visit and play some baseball (no ball, no gloves...just lots of large baseball bats!) perhaps they could "open-up" a dialog (among other things) with the terrorist detainees.
I tend toward the Billy Ray Cyrus approach. Closed cell, good stereo, non-stop "Achy Breaky Heart" for 24 hours. That would break ANYBODY. Toss in some good pork bobby-q for good measure.
Michael
Then crank up the voltage.
I agree with you 100%. Next issue. After we have gotten the truth with the proper methods, what is your position on torture?
No way! Then they'd be brainwashed into becoming flaming liberal demoncrats!
Give the prisoners Scoplalmine and Versed to wring all of the information out of them cleanly,and then an hour to be with Allah before making them work on Sheila Jackson Lee's 2004 White House campaign.(Boy,that'll get ACLU and Amnesty International screaming.......)
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