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When I asked Lt. Col. Fisher of Military Transition Team 6 in Fallujah about how Americans influence Iraqi soldiers on the interrogation of suspected insurgents, he said ...

"You've got a lot of work to do if you want to change a mindset that's been forged in their collective memory over half a century. You don't change that in two years with a couple nice hand outs and a Dale Carnegie course. But when they (the Iraqi Army interrogators) see (humane treatment) works, that's what sells the product. You can give them brochures and hand outs and well meaning people coming in and talking to them about human rights, but until they see the tangible product that 'boy this does work, they actually told us what we wanted to know,' until they see it, they don't believe it. And that is very much how this country works."

"And the (Iraqi Army soldiers) have seen that; our methodology pays dividends."

Apparently he was on target, as this article seems to attest:

Dheyaa begins to cry. The colonel continues: " Saddam is gone now. We don't build an army on fear now. We heard you were the prince, but the information was wrong. You are one of my brothers."

Read the rest.

(Via HA)

Posted by Bill at May 9, 2007 09:52 AM | TrackBack (0)