27/09/11: The War Against al-Qaeda: Ali Soufan

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DATE : Tue, 27 Sep 2011 04:00:00 GMT
Entered in Database : 2011-09-27 04:00:00
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It is clear that the CIA got hold of Ali Soufan's book. His chronicle of the investigation and interrogation of Islamic terrorist suspects is peppered with thick black lines blanking out words . .. whole sentences .. whole paragraphs .. or even whole pages. Ali Soufan was an FBI special agent whose interrogations - literally hands off - aborted several terrorist plots but who left the agency after the CIA insisted on using what it called 'Enhanced Interrogation' and others called torture. Today we speak with Ali Soufan on how to coax a terrorist to talk, why torture backfires and what we should know about terrorist threats.

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