Al Qaida Interrogation Cookies: All It Took To Soften Abu Jindal

Editor & Publisher:

Fascinating piece coming in tomorrow's TIME magazine. Reporter Bobby Ghosh writes, "The most successful interrogation of an al-Qaeda operative by U.S. officials required no sleep deprivation, no slapping or 'walling' and no waterboarding. All it took to soften up Abu Jandal, who had been closer to Osama bin Laden than any other terrorist ever captured, was a handful of sugar-free cookies."

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Comments

[research]

My God Man!,

You are coddling terrorists!

Which works.

Trying to force info from suspects

Doesn't work.

[Mustang Sally]

"Have a cookie, kiddo. Now, tell me about the planned attack on...."

[Wiseronenow]

Next time, Cheney is given TV time to spew his mantra on torture, as soon as he starts talking someone should really just offer him a chocolate chip cookie and say, "Go on, please, tell us what you know".

[rbenjamin]

Amateurs! Potato chips are the ticket. Nobody can eat just one.

[Telemachus]

Oooooh, "repeated potato chipping." Their training didn't prepare them for that!

[foofoobunny]

ahh, but even better are chocolate covered potato chips...really. try one.

[elmerfude]

But this isn't nearly as much fun for the troglodytes and neanderthals who like to torture people. The inquisitors during the Spanish Inquisition used waterboarding and they knew it didn't work to get the truth. But it did get false confessions and a reign of fear. This is what they wanted so they could steal wealth, take the women they wanted and burn whomever they pleased including sometimes their own brothers.

[MilitantlyPassive]

Have them smoke a doob and THEN wave the chocolate chip cookies under their noses.

[Telemachus]

"No munchies 'til you give us TWO more names ... and Daffy Duck won't do it; we've already got him in custody."

[Pupadup4oBama]

Oh man.....see, if EVERYONE just toked up....this world would be a much better place.

[scottyknows]

Oh, yeah, I believe this.

Really. No, really. I'm not kidding, now...

[Grunty1]

We already know that you have a problem accepting reality.

But no problem believing Ch3n3y, despite hundreds of years of evidence to the contrary.

[Wiseronenow]

Mrs. Fields!!! Where were you when we needed you??

[WTxIndependent]

Cheney's policy foiled by a cookie... amazing.

yet another example of Cheney's inhumane nature and stupidity!

[1088]

A good cheese burger will do the trick for me! I would spill my guts!

[Pupadup4oBama]

give me a plate of spaghetti and meatballs and i'm jelly!

[BlackWidowPilot]

Curses!! Chocolate chip cookies!! I am undone...

If the interrogator offers me Earl Gray with the cookies, I'll defect, and bring half of Langley with me...

Leland R. Erickson

Citizen

[RJII]

COOKIES! Republicans are gonna be so mad about this. Its not mean and destructive enough.

[jazzycafe]

Hannity will have a fit!

A few chocolate cookies with your next tea party Sean?

[HST]

Maybe if they waterboarded the cookies American cities would be saved from the ticking bombs...

[Tyler Brown]

Denying cookies to someone is torture, clearly!

[BlackJAC]

How 'bout a Victoria's Secret catalogue? One photo of Marisa Miller in a bikini and they'll rat out bin Laden's location just for a chance to touch her hair.