captured terrorist in mumbai to be given "truth serum"

[Amby 490]

Indian police interrogators are preparing to administer a "truth serum" on the sole Islamic militant captured during last week's terror attacks in Mumbai to settle once and for all the question of where he is from.

The mystery of the man dubbed "the baby-faced gunman" has weighed heavily on India's relations with Pakistan as the nuclear-armed neighbors dispute each other's accounts of his origin.

Police interrogators in Mumbai told The Times that they have "verified" that Azam Amir Kasab, who was captured after a shoot-out in a Mumbai railway station on Wednesday night, is from Faridkot, a small village in Pakistan's impoverished south Punjab region. They say that the nine dead gunmen are also Pakistani.

Disputing that account, President Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan was quoted by cable news as saying, "We have not been given any tangible proof to say that he is definitely a Pakistani. I very much doubt it -- that he is a Pakistani."

He added: "The gunmen plus the planners, whoever they are, [are] stateless actors who have been holding hostage the whole world."

Proof that the militants were Pakistani would rapidly escalate the pressure on Mr Zardari's government to take action or risk a backlash from allies including the United States.

Police interrogators in Mumbai told The Times that they are poised to settle the matter of Kasab's nationality through the use of "narcoanalysis" -- a controversial technique, banned in most democracies, where the subject is injected with a truth serum.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,461067,00.html

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

Is "truth serum" code for a steel toed boot?

[Otto 83]

Is "truth serum" code for a steel toed boot?

...was thinking it was code for 'water boarding'...

[spookyturtle 9,466]

I suggest a hot beef injection, that'll make him sing like a canary.

[Ban Hammer 13,349]

I suggest a hot beef injection, that'll make him sing like a canary.

he'd have a voice like barney frank's

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Good to know that the guy will be getting a useful interrogation.

After all - truth drugs are notoriously reliable. Not.

I guess its going to be "tell me what I want to believe"

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[William33 110]

Good to know that the guy will be getting a useful interrogation.

After all - truth drugs are notoriously reliable. Not.

I guess its going to be "tell me what I want to believe"

They could try LSD again....like in the 60's....

[john & jean 37]

Good to know that the guy will be getting a useful interrogation.

After all - truth drugs are notoriously reliable. Not.

I guess its going to be "tell me what I want to believe"

They could try LSD again....like in the 60's....

yeah or maybe battery acid

[Heracles 417]

Is "truth serum" code for a steel toed boot?

...was thinking it was code for 'water boarding'...

Most other countries don't publish their method of information extraction. Anyone captured by them would be begging for water boarding and a lifetime in Guantanamo rather than those nations 'information extraction' techniques. Imagine the Russians caught this guy.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Is "truth serum" code for a steel toed boot?

Hey, whatever it takes.

[William33 110]

Is "truth serum" code for a steel toed boot?

...was thinking it was code for 'water boarding'...

Most other countries don't publish their method of information extraction. Anyone captured by them would be begging for water boarding and a lifetime in Guantanamo rather than those nations 'information extraction' techniques. Imagine the Russians caught this guy.

Techniques applied in the ME region are much more effective....

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

All the hand wringing over technique is a little silly. Let law enforcement decide what works and what doesn't and let them not have to worry about our tender little sensibilities.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Is "truth serum" code for a steel toed boot?

...was thinking it was code for 'water boarding'...

Of course...because water boarding and other forms of torture have been proven in getting reliable information...................not.

[William33 110]

All the hand wringing over technique is a little silly. Let law enforcement decide what works and what doesn't and let them not have to worry about our tender little sensibilities.

Don't dismiss the reality that intel will be managing this operation. That ain't law enforcement, rest assured of that.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

All the hand wringing over technique is a little silly. Let law enforcement decide what works and what doesn't and let them not have to worry about our tender little sensibilities.

I think its fairly well established that "truth drugs" don't work. Torture doesn't work either - except as a means to get people to sign staged confessions to promote pre-meditated agendas.

As far as sensibilities go I would imagine that getting useful information to further an investigation is more useful than simply assuming the conclusions and going through the motions. That line of reasoning is what got us into Iraq.