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...interrogators used drugs--an unnamed "quick-on, quick-off" painkiller and Sodium Pentothal, the old movie truth serum--in a chemical version of reward and punishment to make Zubaydah talk. When questioning stalled, according to Posner, CIA men flew Zubaydah to an Afghan complex fitted out as a fake Saudi jail chamber, where "two Arab-Americans, now with Special Forces," pretending to be Saudi inquisitors, used drugs and threats to scare him into more confessions...
...retired, Emma's new doctor admitted her to the hospital for observation. The seizures Watson had reported Emma having at home stopped, but the doctors weren't satisfied. In fact, they became suspicious - the Watsons received a disability allowance because of Emma's diagnosis; had that led Lisa to fake the illness? The doctors began asking her if she'd been abused as a child, or had ever made up stories about her children being sick. When Lisa demonstrated a mastery of Emma's complex medical history, they quizzed her: "How do you know all this?" Her response: "Wouldn...
Meadow coined the term Munchausen Syndrome By Proxy (MSBP) in a 1977 Lancet article to describe the behavior of "parents who, by falsification, caused their children innumerable harmful hospital procedures." (Patients with Munchausen Syndrome, named for a fictional character known for tall tales, fake their own symptoms.) In the U.K. and elsewhere, MSBP has become an increasingly common diagnosis, as medical and law- enforcement professionals became familiar with the catalog of MSBP indicators. The FBI profile of the typical perpetrator, for example, warns that they "are most often biological mothers of the victims ... welcome medical tests that are painful...
...jail. MEANWHILE IN FRANCE ... Almost Poached President George W. Bush's personal chef, Walter Scheib, got steamed when jokers from a French TV show - disguised as President Chirac's wife Bernadette and her secretary - tempted him to quit the White House for a job in Chirac's kitchens. The fake first lady told Scheib her husband could no longer stomach French food, and craved hamburgers...
What of Orzolek's and Joy's new It girl status? Says Joy: "I ring up my mum and say, 'They're calling Karen a fashion icon, and she's got a fake mink hanging around her neck with button eyes!' It's stupid stuff." --By George Epaminondas