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Who really tortured Hassan?

posted 17 years ago by bsharporflat
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I assumed throughout this movie that he was captured and tortured by the CIA as would seem to be the case at face value. But I also wondered how the other prisoner who passed him food was given access. What sort of interrogation jail allows prisoners to freely socialize and even give each other contraband?

Toward the end, when the other prisoner passed him a huge roll of money my skepticism completely took over. How could that happen in a jail so focused on power and control? The only explanation I can accept is that this wasn't a CIA jail at all but Al Qaeda posing as CIA to gain recruits.

Not that I condone Dick Cheney's water torture, water boarding techniques or whatever but does the CIA really sponsor propane torch burning of prisoners? Leaving those horrific scars Hassan had on his back...and then...just let the prisoner go? Something doesn't add up.

I don't know if that was the directorial intent (Al Qaeda posing as CIA) or if it was just directorial mistakes. But that was my conclusion given the facts as presented in the movie.

[–] ZeroVince 17 years ago

I believe you mistook the Q'uran for a roll of money.. Thats.. funny? Typical?
As far as your comment on the propane burning and the scars.. Ignorance is bliss.

[–] bsharporflat 17 years ago

a rolled up Q'uran instead of money? Okay, if you say so.. Typical of what?

Still doesn't explain why the CIA allowed that to happen in their custody. Or why the CIA allowed him to go free after all that. Why wasn't he killed to cover up their mistakes and their torture? Was the CIA too nice to do that? You don't address any of my points which suggest he was, in fact, imprisoned by Al Qaeda or something similar.

[–] Sergeant_Detritus 17 years ago

When he passed him the Q'uran in prison, I also thought that all the torture was more of a reqruiting technique.

good cop bad cop kind a thing.

I feel the movie doesn't explain enough in the beginning. Why did they take him in Paris, who did they sent him to...

<<Dedicated follower of Oanda the 'Giant Kung Fu Panda'>>

[–] idlespeed 17 years ago

his brother is killed at a demonstration back home while he is in paris.
if his brother was suspected to be part of the original bombing plot (and was assasinated at the protest) it would make sense to interrogate him.

us operatives use extraordinary rendition and return him to pakistani authorities who torture him till they realise he knows nothing. when he is released the brotherhood initiates him and explain his brother was indeed part of the plot to bomb ny - he chooses to follow his brother.

or at least thats one way of looking at it

[–] lovelygreebo 16 years ago

CIA are more evil than Al Queda

[–] soruht 16 years ago

Don't feed the troll.

[–] lovelygreebo 14 years ago

*beep* up *beep* king!

[–] Jimwhitley6 13 years ago

While we're all talking about the evil CIA, would one of you fellows like to show me some proof that they or any other US agency engages in this sort of activity? There's a rather large gap between waterboarding and burning someone with a blowtorch.