"Pamela" <
uklm@permabulator.33mail.com> wrote in message news:
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A theoretical question could be raised today about
recent events: would it have been justified to interrogate
a member of Hamas using all the methods available if it were
to have led to the prevention of the recent massacre in Israel?
Whereas a practical answer would be that any such interrogation
could only ever confirm what the interrogators should already know.
If they really got lucky, that is.
That to maintain utmost security Hamas like all such organisations
works on the basis of cells, a strict need to know principle
and strictly one way top down communication with plenty of cut-outs
So that each cell might contain anything from 3 to 100 members.
The only thing these people will know is possibly the names of fellow
cell members. Their only other knowledge of Hamas operations outside
of their cell, and of the wider organisation is the same as is everybody
else; what they see on the TV or read in the paper
In theory each cell is an active service unit held in a perpetual
state of readiness. In order to maintain morale and readiness
individual cells are occasionally instructed to launch attacks into
Israel - which the other cells will read about.
The decision to launch a co-ordinated attack - as happened here
and which was and is always a theoretical possibility - could probably
be taken at very short notice by only a very few people.
Clearly there will be one member of each cell who actually receives
the instructions who could possibly be compromised. So he will
most likely be known to other cell members under a false name and
identity, which may or may not eventually be linked to an actual
innocent person .
Next week: how new members are actually recruited
It's why I referred to Abu Graib as being worse, because purely
physical methods were widely used there. Recall the newspaper front
pages showing a hooded prisoner with his arms out attached to electric
wires as an example of physical methods.
The very fact such photographs appeared on newspaper front pages
gives cause to doubt their veracity. And leads to the suspicion
that they are more likely propaganda. Most likely to either to
discredit the torturers or further terrorise potential victims.
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