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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Apparently you are confusing your own "24"-related fantasies with what actually happened. Here's the key:
- According to Higazi, the investigators coerced him into confessing to a role in 9/11. Higazi first adamantly denied any involvement with 9/11 and could not believe what was happening to him. Then, he says, the investigator said his family would go through hell in Egypt, where they torture people like Saddam Hussein. Higazy then realized he had a choice: he could continue denying the radio was his and his family suffers ungodly torture in Egypt or he confesses and his family is spared. ...
So Higazy "confesses" and he's processed by the criminal justice system. His future is quite bleak. Meanwhile, an airline pilot later shows up at the hotel and asks for his radio back. This is like something out of the movies. The radio belonged to the pilot, not Higazy, and Higazy was free to go, the victim of horrible timing. Higazi was innocent!
Threatened in this way, Higazy "confessed" to something he hadn't done.
What's bizarre is that you really aren't interested in whether the FBI got got information by mistreating him. It didn't. They did bad police work instead of good police work, and as a result they got bad information. Americans were less well protected as a result. This completely escapes you, though, because what you care about is whether the FBI was acting tough.
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1 you're quoting blogs as facts again.
2 yes, it turns out it wasn't his communication equipment. you do realize that when the blogger you quote uses the term "radio" he's trying to bend your emotions to make you believe there was no reason for the FBI to worry, right? Oh, I forgot, you aren't capable of questioning an anti-US blog.
How was he mistreated? If he hadn't confessed do you see him being released BEFORE the pilot shows up? do you feel he should have been w/o a confession and before the pilot shows?
I'm having second thoughts. looks to me like you got is sussed out. Maybe you can train the FBI in questioning. Pay cut for you maybe, but duty calls!
Remember to support all the advice in your advice pamplet with appropriate blog citations.
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