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Magouranis Dis can be at he was eager to try coercive in train ing at fort instructors stressed the Geneva he re while classmates privately admired israeli and British the British were Magouranis they seemed like real but interrogators for countries that Pride themselves on adhering to the Rule of such As the United states and operate in a moral War they Are on the front lines in fighting crucial for yet they use methods that conflict with their societies the Border Between coercion and Tor Ture is often in and the govern ment is debating it the Bush administration is nearing completion of a new executive order setting secret rules for Cia interrogation that might ban a practice that simulates last president Bush endorsed an alternative set of which he described As for questioning High level and in Iraq last David the top warned troops that the military does not Sanction torture or other expedient methods to obtain the world of the interrogator is largely but three interrogators Al a rare peek into their lives an american Rookie who served with the 202nd military intelligence battalion and two Veteran interrogators from Britain and the whose wartime experiences stretch Back Are More Uura Thi an interrogator in Northern kept Handwritten 1981 briefing and supervision of interrogation Tony Courtesy to the Washington Tony Magouranis leans against the interrogation Center at Al Asad air base in Iraq in Early Magouranis was in Iraq from january 2004 until january practice at finding moral they use even these older men grapple with their own fears and with a clash of that said Darius a political scientist who has studied torture and de can torment interrogators Noth ing is More toxic than which is typical with democratic on the other dont have these prob an amiable Man with a redo White Shook his head when told of Magouranis Hes full of was one of Britain most experienced interrogators in Northern ire starting in James he worked for the special Branch of the Royal Ulster interrogating Irish nationalists Gerry Bobby Sands and others whom the British government suspected of being Peter a leading historian of the conflict in North Ern said he believes Jamess account is entirely late one night in three Irish Republican army gunmen crept up to Jamess they came to get James Given a 20minute warning following a he and his wife ultimately to an is land in the James agreed to talk if his last name and location were they Haven a clue in driving along Stony past goats and James had this advice for Magouranis in Chicago youve got to get up and get on with it that what we my Friend once saw a Guy planting a he he my Friend tied a rope around the Guys made him defuse now that How to Deal with a ticking if a 11 of Iraq was a ticking time Magouranis Downing his fourth of seven he had joined the army before to learn he didst expect to go to at Iraq Abu Gharib the site of the 200304 abuse Magouranis used to relax in the old execution he and a Friend would sit near the trap door and read the arabic scratched into the they found a dirty Brown it was the Hangman if there is an evil spot in the that was one of Magouranis lag Ouranis tools included stress Posi a staged execution and hypothermia so extreme the detainees lips turned Pur he has written an account of his experiences in a fear up which has been read by the Pentagon and will be published this at every there was part of me re part of me Magouranis using dogs on there was a tingling throughout my if you saw the reaction in the its in he took detainees outside the prison Gate to a Metal shipping Container they called the with blaring music and once a an iraqi Council Man and an american colonel we had to hide the tortured he a soldiers aunt sent Over several copies of Viktor Frankeus holocaust mans search for Magouranis found himself trying to pick up tips from the he realized he had gone too u have to play by different the israeli interrogator told an american visitor in Tel the terrorists want to use your own system to destroy what your president is doing is the who spoke on condition that he be identified by his code recently retired As chief of interrogations for Shin israels Security which is responsible for questioning pales Tinian terrorism the former head of the Avi and the former chief terrorism Dvorah called sheriff the to persuade someone to confess feels better than beating him sheriff its a mental sheriff is Short and with Reddish skin that turns yellow in the folds when he furrows his he keeps an electric razor in his car so he can shave his head while he wears a Cap from the Kentucky department of Homeland be for interrogation was More psychological than he used flattery on palestinians who put bombs under play ground benches you hey wow How did you connect these wires did you manufacture this explosive this is Good Magouranis apologized to his two they Coul Dve died be cause we were inducing he As Magouranis was leaving Abu go he told one of the Brothers to ill always consider you a he gave me a look he probably wanted to kill my entire i spent a lot of time torturing but also