I think someone somewhere has watched one too many episodes of James Bond, 007…
Police interrogators in Mumbai told The Times that they are poised to settle the matter of Kasab’s nationality through the use of “narcoanalysis” – a controversial technique, banned in most democracies, where the subject is injected with a truth serum.
The method was widely used by Western intelligence agencies during the Cold War, before it emerged that the drugs used – typically the barbiturate sodium pentothal – may induce hallucinations, delusions and psychotic manifestations
Seriously, what happened to good old fashioned torture? I mean, there are 10 million ways to extract information from this guy without inducing hallucinations, delusions and psychotic manifestations. Things as simple as pulling out his fingernails or rubbing pepper in his eyes or privates will induce him to confess everything, including being present when Neil Armstrong landed on the moon…
Oh well…
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