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WASHINGTON - Soon after he arrived at Afghanistan's Kandahar Airfield in December 2001, Army Sgt. 1st Class Chris Mackey discovered that the training he and his fellow interrogators had received at the army's top intelligence school was useless in persuading supporters of al-Qaida and the Taliban to talk.
The captives easily rebuffed the textbook approaches taught at Fort Huachuca, Ariz. Confident that Americans would treat them with restraint, hundreds of prisoners simply repeated the same implausible cover stories. They'd come to Afghanistan to live a purer Islamic life. They were looking for a good Muslim bride. They were studying the Quran.See the full content of this document
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Book Reveals Interrogation Tactics
They said they couldn't remember names, dates or places.
The creative use of props and psychological ploys yielded some ...See the full content of this document
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