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...Faisalabad, Pakistan. Abu Zubaydah, say CIA and other U.S. government sources, is not being tortured, but a variety of methods are being used to encourage him to talk. Typical military interrogation tactics would include depriving him of sleep, changing the temperature of his cell and "modulating caloric intakes"--spookspeak for withholding food and then providing it as a reward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Next Wave: DIRTY-BOMB, CAR-BOMB, BOAT-BOMB PLOTS | 6/24/2002 | See Source »

...veterans of that rogues' gallery, Fidel Castro and Muammar Gaddafi, have survived attempts at what is known in spookspeak as "termination with extreme prejudice." In the early 1960s the CIA concocted exotic poisons and hired Mafia hit men in a bizarre and feckless murder plot against the Cuban leader. In 1986 Ronald Reagan hurled squadrons of fighter-bombers at Libya, and White House aides privately hoped at least one bomb would have Gaddafi's name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf: America Abroad: The Search for Supervillains | 9/3/1990 | See Source »

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