Does that mean that you would go further than me, BEags, and wouldn't allow or condone sleep deprivation, stress positions, threat of harm, and that to condone such tactics renders one as some kind of BNP supporting lunatic?
Is there not some sensible middle way, in which applying extreme psychological pressure is acceptable, while physical violence and physical torture is not?
Should there not even be any discussion as to whether the rules that forbid psychological torture and death threats during interrogation are entirely appropriate against this particular type of enemy? (An enemy who would cut your gonads off with a rusty knife, stitch them into your mouth, and stake you out in the sun to die, given half a chance, if there was no video camera handy to film you as they cut your head off....)
Is there not a danger that if the British Army is required to treat captured terrorists in the way that the Surrey Constabulary treat a suspected shoplifter, then they will inevitably (and quite rightly) go a little too far - with the danger of really over-stepping where the line should have been drawn in the first place.
Airborne/C Hinecap,
Do you think that things 'got out of hand' in this particular instance?
and:
Did it work?