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Jiang says the Abu Ghraib torture was not random rogue behavior but a program designed by psychologists paid by the CIA.
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Torture
A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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The lecture argues that torture radicalized prisoners rather than pacifying them, connecting US-controlled prisons and torture to ISIS recruitment and extremism.
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Jiang claims Abu Zubaydah's reported torture repeats the Egyptian script of force-feeding, strangling, coffin confinement, drowning, cutting, and sexual humiliation.
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He says the goal of torture is not to extract information but to turn people into programmable secret weapons.
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"So this is a prison in Iraq, Abu Ghraib, where they arrested terrorists. And they were doing strange things to these terrorists, as you..."
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"...is it doesn't actually work. Because after the CIA started to torture all these prisoners, they became ISIS. ISIS. Islamic State. ISIS is the..."
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"...ongoing, unchecked by Egyptian authorities and fueled in substantial part by torture and other abuse that pervade Egyptian prisons. So it's really strange how..."
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"But we have one man, Abu Zubanai, who remember what happened. He's a Saudi citizen who was captured and he told us what they..."
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"...these people they'll tell you everything no you don't have to torture them you torture them because you're trying to turn them into secret..."
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"...They were heaven's gates, praying to his high lord, despite the torture, to pardon those who were his persecutors. His look was such that..."
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"...the ditch and turned to look at me forgetful of their torture wondering then you who will perhaps soon see the sun tell fra..."
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"...why are the sins sons in prison i believe it's to torture count ugolino but i don't"
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"understand why they were subject to the same torture as ugolino did"
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"...out of that nightmare. And then from that whole month of torture is over. Like, if anybody swear to me, oh, there's no God..."
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"...he caught you kind of fitting, he would like basically, uh, torture you to death. Okay. It's a very serious thing. And so it..."
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"...arrogance that is not quenched, you're punished all the more. No torture other than your own master. Madness could offer pain enough to match..."
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