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Article: In the early days of the 200 ...
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- August 29, 2004
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In the early days of the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan, U.S.
interrogators had their work cut out for them. As Chris Mackey
(himself an Army interrogator) and Greg Miller (a reporter for the
Los Angeles Times) outline the situation in The Interrogators: Inside
the Secret War Against Al Qaeda (Little, Brown, $25.95), "many . . .
prisoners had been trained to resist, and our schoolhouse methods
were woefully out-of-date." The questioners had to ad-lib, making use
of any weaknesses they could discover in their prisoners. (Unlike
their counterparts in the later Iraq War, the authors note, these
interrogators resorted only to "intellect and psychology," not
brutality or physical humiliation.) One ...
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