Monday, October 22, 2007

Back Atcha...

Fascinating (and frightening) tale of coerced confessions and a lesson of just how useless they ulimately are...


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Shortly after 9/11, an Egyptian national named Abdallah Higazy was rounded up by the FBI and told to confess that he had been part of the plot. If he didn't, he was warned, things would go badly for his family [....]



Further thoughts on the same topic -


Torture and Confession



Awhile back, I wrote a post for The Moderate Voice about the torture debate in this country. A few days after putting the piece up, I noticed a comment by a man who went by the pseudonym “mondliath.” He had written the response after much of the discussion had died down, so I doubt that [...]



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