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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
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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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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"...the people at the very top to commit these rituals of torture in order to turn the initiates into slaves. And those who are..."
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"...Saturn or Satan is giving them the strength in order to torture the, okay? these initiates. So these initiates become their slaves for life...."
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"...So, this is just shocking. It's, it's, it's a mutilation. It's torture. All right. So, now we move to the end of the Iliad...."
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"...reporter for New Yorker and spent years looking into why this torture happened. And what she argued is it's an experiment to change the..."
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"...figure out how to do this to anyone using drugs using torture using ritual abuse okay so all these Isis fighters they're robots controlled..."
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"...up a network of spies to identify these counterfeiters, sometimes to torture them for information, and for the most egregious offenders, they would be..."
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"...Even if you were poor, you could still sue. He abolished torture in the military, and this was revolutionary at this time, because it..."
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