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How to break a terrorist

by Matthew Alexander · first published 2008

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  • s_q_b · Feb 14, 2015 · Recommends

    For anyone interested in modern interrogation techniques, I'd recommend the book "How to Break a Terrorist."[0] [0]How to Break a Terrorist: The U.S. Interrogators Who Used Brains, Not Brutality, to Take Down the Deadliest Man in Iraq http://www.amazon.com/How-Break-Terrorist-Interrogators-Brut...

    on “The Dark Science of Interrogation” ↗
  • jayhuang · Apr 9, 2015 · Mentions

    …Slow * How to Win Friends and Influence People * David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants * Self-Made Man: One Woman's Year Disguised as a Man * The Martian: A Novel * How to Break a Terrorist: The U.S. Interrogators Who Used Brains, Not Brutality, to Take Down the Deadliest Man in Iraq * Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets * Blink: The Power of Thinking Without…

    on “Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days?” ↗
  • Ardit20 · Aug 5, 2010 · Mentions

    …CIA Kept America Safe and How Barack Obama Is Inviting the Next Attack" - I think the title is probably all you need to know about him and the book. "...a former military interrogator, and author of How to Break a Terrorist, characterizes Thiessen's book as "a literary defense of war criminals" "...many Catholic thinkers strongly disagree with Thiessen's assertion in the book that <strong>waterboarding</strong>…

    on “Wikileaks Must Be Stopped” ↗

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