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To: Brumar89 who wrote (1144)	12/28/2002 3:27:09 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 15987

?Stress and duress? tactics used on terrorism suspects I am delighted to hear this. As far as I am concerned, they can "Hook up the Battery Cables." This is not a conventional war were we take normal prisoners and have a surrender ceremony at the end. We are not "Reading them their rights" and trying them in court. This is "War to the Knife" with Terrorists who will continue to kill us at every opportunity. The only way you can get at them is with intensive interrogation. This is just realistic, not bloodthirsty.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1144)	12/28/2002 5:27:17 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 15987

We used to be treated to the USA haranging China about human rights. The whining seems to have gone quiet as the Al Qaeda supports are interrogated, or 'rendered'. <THOSE WHO refuse to cooperate inside this secret CIA interrogation center are sometimes kept standing or kneeling for hours, in black hoods or spray-painted goggles, according to intelligence specialists familiar with CIA interrogation methods. At times they are held in awkward, painful positions and deprived of sleep with a 24-hour bombardment of lights — subject to what are known as “stress and duress” techniques. Those who cooperate are rewarded with creature comforts, interrogators whose methods include feigned friendship, respect, cultural sensitivity and, in some cases, money. Some who do not cooperate are turned over — “rendered,” in official parlance — to foreign intelligence services whose practice of torture has been documented by the U.S. government and human rights organizations.> Human rights are only needed for Americans it seems. If China's police did the same sort of thing to people they object to, the whining from King George II and courtiers would be like a fleet of 747s. Mqurice