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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (42848)5/8/2004 7:26:23 AM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) of 793743
 
Nadine, I read that something like half the prisoners were captured due to being in the wrong place at the wrong time, in "sweeps". Something like half have been released, I think it was.

So, there were certainly lots of people who were not really major league terrorists, with hot information, which was needed to prevent further carnage.

I do admit that I don't have much knowledge of interrogating people to get information from them, but "break the spirit of fanatical jihadis" seems like a cliche good for movies, but not necessarily transferrable to real life for random captives who might or might not have any useful information.

Some, or one, of the photographed prisoners seem to have needed some punishment as they were reported to have beaten up other prisoners, who were accused of talking to the interrogators. But stacking them up naked doesn't seem like a good idea. Some tit for tat of those belligerent prisoners was perhaps in order to show them that they couldn't just attack other people with impunity [if that's actually what happened].

It didn't look to me as though the captors were trying to break the spirit of fanatical jihadis in order to prevent the next suicide bomber. I don't think that had anything to do with it. Were their spirits "broken"? I don't think so.

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