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9/9/2006: "recipe for terror"

One day before the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 bombings, and in the context of the internet being feared as a means by which radical extremist groups can disseminate knowledge useable for terrorist acts, here is a gem from the New York Times:

Mr. [Abu] Zubaydah dismissed Mr. [Jose] Padilla as a maladroit extremist whose hope to construct a dirty bomb, using conventional explosives to disperse radioactive materials, was far-fetched. He told his questioners that Mr. Padilla was ignorant on the subject of nuclear physics and believed he could separate plutonium from nuclear material by rapidly swinging over his head a bucket filled with fissionable material.

Some hilarious images come to mind here. But far less laughable are the allegations of secret CIA prisons and harsh interrogation techniques used on suspects. Sure - I'm not such a head-in-the-clouds idealist to think that there is no excuse for torture, even when authorities are certain that they've caught a terrorist who knows the location of a dirty bomb that's going to explode in a crowded city in ten hours' time. But the price of such pragmatism is, of course, what happens to innocent people apprehended as terror suspects and subjected to what is blithely termed "non-standard interrogation". That's not counting the more intangible cost to the US' claims to having the moral courage to be different from its enemies. Another interesting point in that article - according to accounts by former CIA agents, the US had consulted "foreign governments" to identify successful techniques beyond standard interviews. It'd be good to know which countries were consulted - who has the "best practices" on this sort of thing these days.

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