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The Interrogators: Inside the Secret War Against al Qaeda Hardcover – July 19, 2004

by Chris Mackey (Author), Greg Miller (Author)

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Shares the inside stories of five American interrogators at the front lines of the war against terror, revealing the mental and psychological battles waged between interrogation soldiers and their Al Qaeda and Taliban prisoners of war. 60,000 first printing.

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This fascinating memoir reports from one of the most crucial and controversial fronts in the war on terror. The pseudonymous Mackey was an interrogator at military prisons in Afghanistan, tasked with sussing out the secrets of suspected Taliban and al-Qaeda members. He and journalist Miller take readers inside the prison cells and interrogation rooms, where interrogators choreograph elaborate mind games and fight epic battles of will with their often formidable captives. Their account's full of the engrossing lore and procedure of interrogation, the thrust and parry of baited queries and cagey half-truths, and the occasional dramatic breakthrough when a prisoner cracks. But it also reveals the squalor and drudgery of the prison camps, the exhaustion, bad temper and frequent ineptitude of the interrogators and the many lapses in the American intelligence effort, especially by the CIA, which Mackey regards as an arrogant, secretive and incompetent organization. Mackey deplores the Abu Ghraib abuses and insists that his unit never violated the Geneva Conventions. They flirted, he acknowledges, with stress positions and sleep deprivation, but this was nothing, he claims, beyond what army recruits and the interrogators themselves routinely endured; their main weapons seem to have been veiled threats to return Arab prisoners to their homelands, where they would face real torture. The book, which was vetted by the Pentagon, will not settle the questions surrounding American treatment of prisoners in Iraq and elsewhere. But it does give a vivid, gritty look at the pressures and compromises attendant on this unconventional war.
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About the Author

Chris Mackey joined the army at seventeen and was assigned to the intelligence corps as an interrogator. After 9/11, he was recalled to the United States, assigned to Task Force 500, and subsequently sent to Kandahar, Afghanistan. He ultimately supervised all military interrogations conducted at the theatre-wide detention facility at Bagram airfield.

Greg Miller is a national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times.

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Hardcover: 512 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company; First Edition edition (July 19, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780316871129
ISBN-13: 978-0316871129
ASIN: 0316871125
Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 1.5 x 9.5 inches
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What The Media Wouldn't Tell You -- The Truth

February 2, 2016

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This is a story about a critical team of soldiers faced with a nearly impossible task--trying to extract critical intelligence vital to the US' war on terror. It should be a must read for every critic from journalists to university campuses so there's a more accurate and sobering look at what went on vs. the misrepresentation slung around by everyone from John Kerry and Barack Obama to the NY Times.

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The Interrogators, a worth book to read and learn from the experiences of another Army.

December 19, 2007

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I think we should have read this book in the seventies in order to avoid the mistakes in our "dirty war". As we know, some Latin America's countries based the doctrine of counterinsurgency in French Doctrine used in Indochina and Argelia. This doctrine is described in some books, such us Modern Warfare written by Col (Fr) Roger Trinquier. He justified in some ways the use of torture in order to obtain information. When Latin America's armies adopted this doctrine, they didn't give the necessary time to see the effects of it. The interrogation under torture could have obtained information; however, the strategic effects in the long term of the torture were disastrous for the legitimacy of the struggle against communism. Moreover, the torture is immoral and is a crime. Thirty years after the war, torturers and the soldiers, who fought the enemy inside the law, were both equally accused for violation of Human Rights.

After this comments, I'd like to continue with the book, Part one is focused in the training of interrogators in the US Army and the British Army. The differences are, in my point of view very important. The main difference is, meanwhile the US Army is trained to fight against a conventional enemy, the British prepare their people to both conventional and unconventional enemies. This part finished with the terrorist attack of 11/ 9 and the built up of the force to fight in Afghanistan.

In Part II we can read about the first operations of TF 500 at Kandahar. Here is described how the interrogation is developed. This part shows us about the ICE (the interrogation control element), the duties of the interrogators and the reports. Three things I've found remarkable in this part. The first thing is how to break deception techniques. The second is about the screening, its purpose and its differences and relations with the interrogation process and its value to select prisoners by their will to collaborate and their information. And finally, the most interesting thing is about the body language and how to use it to know if the prisoner is telling the truth.

The Part III is about the TF 500 in Bagram. Here the authors explain us how to use the mobile interrogation team to support SF and how we can develop an interrogation plan. One of the best chapters is "How far to go". It suggest us the principle of "you must not handle a POW worst than you handle our own troops, however, you should not give POW advantages against our interrogators". Other useful tools to improve the interrogation process is the use of snitches and rumors or PSYOPS.

The Part IV is about the relief of the interrogators and the newcomers' lack of understanding of the techniques learnt by the TF 500.

The appendix is a very good brief of the approach techniques.

The book was written with humor and is very easy to read. It doesn't have too much acronyms. In my point of view, the most important lesson after I've read this book is that the interrogation is an intelligence duel more than a physical one. Moreover, any physical punishment in the interrogation is not only immoral, is a way to admit the lack of skills of the interrogator.

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If you liked M.A.S.H., you'll love the Interrogators

August 13, 2004

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I really liked this book! It is a serious book and an informative book. It is also a very entertaining book!

I bought the book because of an interview with the author I heard on N.P.R. I expected to be informed. I did not expect to be entertained.

Rare in non-fiction, these authors have a gift for presenting appealing characters. I was left wishing the book had been many more pages. I want to know what happened to the Indonesian teenager after he went off with the Brits. I want to know more about the Major with her cats. And what about Papa Smurf? There are good guys, bad guys (and they are not all on the 'other side'); there are the inept, the incompentent, the disillusioned and the ardent. The military in all its usual glory.

It DOES NOT have a proper index and I strongly recommend in future editons an index be included.

This is every bit as rich and varied and as entertaining as M.A.S.H. And in the hands of the right people this would be a terrific movie and could be a fine t.v. series.

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A rare look into the world of interrogations

April 21, 2005

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For the individual interested in discovering the essential nature of post 9/11 interrogations conducted by US forces in the war on terrorism, Chris Mackey's "The Interrogators" is sure to leave you intrigued and asking for more. With such a minimal amount of literature available on this oddball profession, I found Mackey's account of his training & subsequent psychological battles with prisoners at Kandahar/Bagram to be both highly entertaining as well as educational.

Seeing how the fundamental purpose of interrogation is to persuade/coerce your opponent into divulging information, the degree to which interrogators must be proficient in specific mind game tactics created to achieve these goals ultimately results with Mackey making simple yet key observations about interrogator training along with the active practice of the tradecraft (i.e. "The approaches that trip you up with a prisoner tend to center on emotions or feelings that trip you up in life.")

I recommend this book to any student of international affairs or psychology, as this is a truly unique account of one man's experience fighting the war on terror while learning a lesson in human nature.

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