Guantanamo Confessions

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is any of this shit even remotely believable? Suspects tortured for three years will tend to say just about anything.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:58 (eighteen years ago)

"secret CIA prison network"

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 15 March 2007 15:59 (eighteen years ago)

new HBO series?

― kingfish, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:04 (eighteen years ago)

You'd think the administration would have released better pictures of what-his-face by now.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:04 (eighteen years ago)

After reading the MIMS thread on ilm i totally read this as 'guacamole confessions'

― deej, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:05 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.ilxor.com:8080/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=40&threadid=52739#unread

― That one guy that quit, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:27 (eighteen years ago)

is there anything KSM hasn't taken credit for? (the Cole bombing?)

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 15 March 2007 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

I saw the headline this morning in the newspaper and my first thought was 'a tortured confession is worthless' and my second thought was 'show trial'. If Bush, Cheney, Rumsfled et. al. couldn't see that problem coming when they first signed off on the idea of torture, it was because they were willfully blind to it. It's like a blinking neon sign. We are ruled by crack heads.

― Aimless, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:07 (eighteen years ago)

is there anything KSM hasn't taken credit for? (the Cole bombing?)

As far as we know, he had nothing to do with Jennifer Hudson being eliminated on American Idol.

― o. nate, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:13 (eighteen years ago)

I hate to state the obvious here, but the only reason the Pentagon released these transcripts today is to get Abu Gonzales off the top of the front page.

― Hatch, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:18 (eighteen years ago)

well duh

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:19 (eighteen years ago)

Abu Gonzales?

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:19 (eighteen years ago)

It's a pretty widely-used nickname, innit?

― Hatch, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:22 (eighteen years ago)

As in Alberto Gonzales' asinine legal advice--in the January 25, 2002, "torture memo"--was responsible for the kind of prisoner abuse that we saw in the Abu Ghraib photos. And, come to think of it, the torture (waterboarding et cetera) that undoubtedly led to KSM's confession to every crime ever commited in the history of the world.

― Hatch, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:31 (eighteen years ago)

wasnt this on showtime hosted by david duchovny

― and what, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:32 (eighteen years ago)

haha okay yeah I just hadn't heard that one.

I hear KSM was on the grassy knoll

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:32 (eighteen years ago)

I'm losing my edge.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:33 (eighteen years ago)

We need gear here to perform his JFK shtick.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:33 (eighteen years ago)

thread title sounds like a red shoe diaries entry.

― Edward III, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:37 (eighteen years ago)

top ten things Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will confess to next

1. shot Biggie and Pac
2. Zodiac killer

― dmr, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:41 (eighteen years ago)

3. ANTHRAX

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:42 (eighteen years ago)

(I love how everyone's totally forgotten about that shit)

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:43 (eighteen years ago)

4. stop! or my mom will shoot!

― Edward III, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:44 (eighteen years ago)

thread title sounds like a red shoe diaries entry.

Edward III on Thursday, March 15, 2007 12:37 PM (11 minutes ago)

wasnt this on showtime hosted by david duchovny

and what on Thursday, March 15, 2007 12:32 PM (16 minutes ago)

― and what, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:49 (eighteen years ago)

haha thought you was referring to a documentary or something

sonned in softcore beef

― Edward III, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:54 (eighteen years ago)

http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f122/robhatchmiller/bigdeal.gif
(inspired by a comment on Wonkette)

― Hatch, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:54 (eighteen years ago)

5. global warming

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:55 (eighteen years ago)

6. Ron Jeremy

― brownie, Thursday, 15 March 2007 18:01 (eighteen years ago)

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed might be the Zelig of terrorism

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 15 March 2007 18:03 (eighteen years ago)

7. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/db/Newcoke-can.jpg

― dmr, Thursday, 15 March 2007 18:03 (eighteen years ago)

8. The framing of Roger Rabbit

― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Thursday, 15 March 2007 18:07 (eighteen years ago)

how does the military carry out capital punishment? do we still have firing squads?

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 15 March 2007 18:14 (eighteen years ago)

As of WWII, we did. Hard to say about today.

― Aimless, Thursday, 15 March 2007 18:16 (eighteen years ago)

Won't they just farm it out to a federal pen? Maybe not even say which one (citing "security concerns") so there won't be a visible protest/media

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Thursday, 15 March 2007 18:21 (eighteen years ago)

but then I won't be able to watch it on my cellphone

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 15 March 2007 18:22 (eighteen years ago)

like a true patriot

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 15 March 2007 18:23 (eighteen years ago)

Get him drunk at a club, stick him in a cab for two hours, see what the cameras capture

― kingfish, Thursday, 15 March 2007 19:22 (eighteen years ago)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070315/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/terrorist_plots

gee, ya think?

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 15 March 2007 23:17 (eighteen years ago)

this thread on dick destiny yay

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:24 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

From today's NYT:

The military trainers who came to Guantánamo Bay in December 2002 based an entire interrogation class on a chart showing the effects of “coercive management techniques” for possible use on prisoners, including “sleep deprivation,” “prolonged constraint,” and “exposure.”

What the trainers did not say, and may not have known, was that their chart had been copied verbatim from a 1957 Air Force study of Chinese Communist techniques used during the Korean War to obtain confessions, many of them false, from American prisoners.

Brilliant.

― Super Cub, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 02:31 (seventeen years ago)

Well, you see, the US armed forces didn't have a lot of practise teaching torture techniques and were kind of winging it.

― Aimless, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 03:55 (seventeen years ago)

Ever resourceful

― Super Cub, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 04:16 (seventeen years ago)

aimless otm except for SERE school, which trains aircrews to resist exactly the stuff in the 50s/60s communist manuals

I just want to track down the officers who disobeyed the code of conduct and the UCMJ by passing this shit down and give them just desserts. They should at least be named and shamed even if they don't get convicted of a war crime

― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 04:22 (seventeen years ago)

imo enlisted folks shouldn't get a pass for obeying unlawful orders either but bit of an idealist over here

― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 04:22 (seventeen years ago)

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