NP the war on terror

[Otto]

At a Secret Interrogation, Dispute Flared Over Tactics
By DAVID JOHNSTON

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 — Abu Zubaydah, the first Osama bin Laden henchman
captured by the United States after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11,
2001, was bloodied and feverish when a C.I.A. security team delivered
him to a secret safe house in Thailand for interrogation in the early
spring of 2002. Bullet fragments had ripped through his abdomen and
groin during a firefight in Pakistan several days earlier when he had
been captured.

The events that unfolded at the safe house over the next few weeks
proved to be fateful for the Bush administration. Within days, Mr.
Zubaydah was being subjected to coercive interrogation techniques — he
was stripped, held in an icy room and jarred by earsplittingly loud
music — the genesis of practices later adopted by some within the
military, and widely used by the Central Intelligence Agency in
handling prominent terrorism suspects at secret overseas prisons.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/10/washington/10detain.html

German media are reporting that the music in question was from the
"Red Hot Chili Peppers":
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,436194,00.html

"When you are concerned that a hard-core terrorist has information
about an imminent threat that could put innocent lives at risk,
rapport-building and stroking aren't the top things on your agenda."
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/10/washington/10detain.html

Jack Bauer rides again!