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...Break a Terrorist: The U.S. Interrogators Who Used Brains, Not Brutality, to Take Down the Deadliest Man in IraqBy Matthew Alexander with John R. BruningFree Press; 288 pages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Break a Terrorist | 12/2/2008 | See Source »

...group of military interrogators (or 'gators, as they call themselves) trained to elicit information without resorting to the old methods of control and force. Upon their arrival, Alexander and his team are assigned to the search for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the head of al-Qaeda in Iraq, the terrorist organization threatening to plunge the country into a violent civil war. Structured around a series of interrogations, How to Break a Terrorist details the battle of wills between 'gators and suspects as well as the internal fight between Alexander's team and the old-school military inquisitors used to more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Break a Terrorist | 12/2/2008 | See Source »

...show that it's possible to get results without smashing some guy against the wall or pouring water down his throat. (As Alexander also points out, many in the military did not agree - and still don't.) Originally slated for release months ago, How to Break a Terrorist was held up by a Defense Department review, in which many passages were literally blacked out. Alexander had to sue in order to get the review completed so he could put out his book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Break a Terrorist | 12/2/2008 | See Source »

Whenever terrorism rears its head in India, it has probably left its tail in Pakistan. Or so seems the knee-jerk instinct of many Indians. But in the wake of last week's Mumbai terrorist attacks, that sentiment may be, in this instance, correct. Ongoing investigations by Indian police - helped in part by the capture of the sole surviving terrorist, 21-year-old Pakistani Ajmal Amir Kasab - suggest that the attacks may have been conceived and carried out primarily by Pakistanis, with the backing of noted terrorist organizations acting within Pakistani territory. This is a revelation that will surprise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Mumbai Chill the India-Pakistan Thaw? | 12/2/2008 | See Source »

...Mumbai, it remains unclear how much traction the opposition party and its allies can gain. During their last term in power, some of the worst religious riots India has ever experienced occurred in the state of Gujarat in 2002, leaving thousands dead. A year before that, an audacious terrorist attack had seen MPs come under fire inside India's Parliament building. Some of the BJP's right-wing allies, such as the Shiv Sena, an influential Hindu-nationalist party in Mumbai, have a reputation for unleashing thuggery as standard political practice and, until last week, the specter of "Hindu terror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mumbai's Fallout: Will India's Government Survive? | 12/1/2008 | See Source »

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