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- W238615018 abstract "--SCENE I: Frankfurt, Germany, I October 2002, early morning IN THE FRANKFURT police headquarters, the atmosphere is tense. Deputy Police Chief Wolfgang Daschner is losing patience. On the previous day, his officers arrested one Magnus Gafgen, a 27-year-old law student. Gafgen is suspected of having kidnapped II-year-old Jakob von Metzler, one of the banker Friedrich von Metzler. Two days earlier, Gafgen had personally collected at-million-euro ransom payment. But there is no sign of the boy and Gafgen has refused to give police interrogators accurate information about his whereabouts. A police psychologist, observing the questioning, describes Gafgen's responses as a pack of lies [Lugengebaude]. Deputy Police Chief Daschner fears that Jakob's life may be in danger. In a memorandum, he writes: We need to ascertain without delay where the boy is being held. While respecting the principle of proportionality, the police have an obligation to take all measures in their power to save the child's life. Daschner decides to act. He dispatches police inspector Ortwin Ennigkeit to the office in which Gafgen is being held for interrogation. Ennigkeit's assignment: to Gafgen talk--if necessary by threat of torture. Indeed, Daschner has resolved not only to threaten Gafgen with pain, but to carry out the threat if his prisoner is not otherwise forthcoming. A doctor has been found to supervise the proceedings. In the interrogation room, Ennigkeit tells Gafgen that a special is on his way. If Gafgen does not tell Ennigkeit where the boy is, the special make him feel pain that he not forget. On Gafgen's own account, the formula is still more menacing: the officer will you feel pain like you have never felt before. Nobody can help you here, Ennigkeit tells him, according to Gafgen's testimony. We can do whatever we want with you. On Gafgen's account, moreover, Ennigkeit already begins to rough him up: shaking him so violently that his head bangs against the wall and hitting him in the chest hard enough to leave a bruise over his collarbone. Gafgen's testimony is consistent with the tenor of Daschner's instructions, which, on Daschner's own admission, called for the use of direct [Anwendung unmittelbaren Zwangs]. In any case, whether the mere threat of pain has been sufficient or the latter has had to be supplemented by the use of direct force, within minutes of Ennigkeit's entering the interrogation room Gafgen talks. He tells Ennigkeit where Jakob is to be found. Police rush to the location and find the boy dead, his corpse wrapped in plastic and submerged under a wooden jetty in a pond. (1) --SCENE 2: Guantanamo Bay Prison Camp, Cuba, ten days later The atmosphere in Joint Task Force 170 is tense. The task force has been set up to obtain intelligence form detainees, but the effort is lagging and army interrogators are losing patience. They have discovered that one of the detainess appeares to have been directly involved in the 9/11 plot. Mohammed al-Qahtani attempted to enter the United States in early August 2001, but was turned back by immigration officers in Orlando, Florida. Telephone intercepts of conversations of 9/11 facilitator Mustafa al-Hawsawi indicate that al-Qahtani was slated to serve as the missing twentieth hijacker on September II. Plot leader Mohammed Atta is known to have been at Orlando International Airport on the day of al-Qahtani's arrival, presumably to meet him. Al-Qahtani was sent back to his native Saudi Arabia and then traveled to Afghanistan. In mid-December, two months after the start of Operation Enduring Freedom, he was taken prisoner on the Pakistani border along with 29 other suspected al Qaeda members apparently fleeing the Battle of Tora Bora. In early October 2002, the questioning of al-Qahtani has been going nowhere. Interrogators and staff psychologists are convinced that he is lying: repeating prefabricated cover stories, no matter how implausible, as required by al Qaeda security protocols. …" @default.
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- W238615018 title "Torture in the Dock" @default.
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