Pentagon: Guantanamo Inmates Yield 'Valuable' Data

[Judi Lynn]

Pentagon: Guantanamo Inmates Yield 'Valuable' Data

Mon Apr 18, 2005 04:35 PM ET

By Will Dunham
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Interrogations of inmates at Guantanamo Bay have yielded "valuable insights" into the al Qaeda network, including its quest for powerful weapons, a Pentagon document stated, but rights activists on Monday called the document self-serving and untrustworthy.

The Pentagon released an unclassified summary of more than 4,000 interrogation reports from the prison for foreign terrorism suspects at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Detainees have given information to interrogators on people involved in al Qaeda's pursuit of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons, it stated, but provided scant detail.
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Amnesty International official Jumana Musa noted the document does not specify whether U.S. jailers used coercive interrogation techniques to extract information.
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http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=8216259

[ReadTomPaine]

1. Data such as how long you can hold innocent people...

before turning them into terrorists yourself via mistreatment and torture.

RTP

[LiberallyInclined]

2. what kind of useful info could they really be getting?

even the ones who are/were actually Al Kay-da have been pretty much out-of-the-loop for at least 3-4 years...wouldn't what they know/knew be a little out-dated by now?

[FloridaPat]

3. That's why bin Ladin is behind bars, the WMD were found in Iraq,

Afghanistan is a totally free democracy, and we're on our way to Iran.

[Inland]

5. LOL!

Oh, you were thinking of THAT type of valuable information.

They were talking about the valuable information of how long a Pakistani can stay awake before hallucinating.

[DELUSIONAL]

4. They will repeat whatever their captors want to hear

This is very primitive Skinnarian stimulus/response. Stop the negative stimulus (physical or psychological) by saying whatever it take to get positive "reinforcement".

Little IF ANY information gotten from these slaves is useful information -- in my humble opinion. And it is costing the taxpayers millions if not billions for these sadistic rituals to be played out on these often ignorant, uneducated people who were captured by the Afghan warlords and SOLD to the Americans. (Thus I call the captives in Gitmo -- slaves.)