How The CIA Got Khalid Sheikh Mohammed To Talk
September 14, 2007 by national
Filed under Homeland Security News
When Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was strapped down to the water-board, he felt humiliated — not by the treatment but by the fact that a woman, a red-headed CIA supervisor, was allowed to witness the spectacle, a former intelligence officer told ABC News.
The al Qaeda mastermind, known as KSM, stubbornly held out for about two minutes — far longer than any of the other “high-value” terror targets who were subjected to the technique, the harshest from a list of six techniques approved for use by the CIA and Bush administration lawyers, sources said.
Then KSM started talking, in idiomatic English he learned as a high school foreign exchange student and polished at a North Carolina college in the 1980s, sources said.
This is very interesting. Perhaps female red-heads should be our new weapon in the war on terror? I could dye my hair and volunteer. ha
Seriously, we keep educating our enemies. Shouldn’t we check out these foreign students a little closer?
Of course “water-boarding” is torture, and torture is an abomination. Yet, we live in a world where there are those who seek to inflict a form of torture against our society by taking innocent lives. We also live in a society that demands a great deal from it’s government. Among the more unreasonable expectations is that of demanding the government acquire sufficient information to avert acts of terrorism directed against us. This society has attempted to place the blame for the 9/11 attack squarely on the shoulders of the intelligence community, yet we condemn them and their techniques in a sanctimonious effort to deny our own guilt in the knowledge that we would do this and much worse if it meant the safety of our own family. For my family, and for my brothers and sisters-in arms, God Forgive me, I would do much worse.