http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1901491,00.html

The assumption that Jihaddists have crossed over to some nether region of irreversible, pyschotic devotion to mayhem becomes self-fulfilling when the mindset and methods of his Lordship, Dick Cheney are applied.

Most of these characters are lost souls. That's why the promise of 70 virgins in exchange for turning yourself and others into pureed flesh actually gets traction.

Story here, dude was diabetic, was certain the Americans were straight from the devil. Interrogator gives him sugar free cookies, dude opens up like large print book.

Abu Jandal's guards were so intimidated by him, they wore masks to hide their identities and begged visitors not to refer to them by name in his presence. He had no intention of cooperating with the Americans; at their first meetings, he refused even to look at them and ranted about the evils of the West. Far from confirming al-Qaeda's involvement in 9/11, he insisted the attacks had been orchestrated by Israel's Mossad. While Abu Jandal was venting his spleen, Soufan noticed that he didn't touch any of the cookies that had been served with tea: "He was a diabetic and couldn't eat anything with sugar in it." At their next meeting, the Americans brought him some sugar-free cookies, a gesture that took the edge off Abu Jandal's angry demeanor. "We had showed him respect, and we had done this nice thing for him," Soufan recalls. "So he started talking to us instead of giving us lectures."

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