A Federal Bureau of Investigation agent Ali Soufan’s method of interrogating terror suspects by offering them their favourite dishes counters the torture policy pursued by George Bush administration.
In his memoir titled The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against al-Qaeda, Ali Soufan has depicted that terrorists are receptive to food.
Mohamed Rashed Daoud al-Owhali, who aided the 1998 bombing of Nairobi's American embassy confessed to his crime after being offered cookies, the Mother Jones reports.
Osama bin Laden’s former bodyguard Abu Jandal had confirmed that Al Qaeda was indeed responsible for perpetrating the 9/11 attacks after he was offered sugarless cookies.
Soufan has slammed the torture policy as useless and points out that alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed, despite being waterboarded 183 times managed to withold information about Al Qaeda plot of 'ticking time bombs' in Spain, Britain, and Indonesia.
Soufan also counters the myth that all Muslim extremists possess thorough knowledge of Koran and strictly abide by it.
Soufan writes of the prostitute-seeking, liquor-shot-pounding extremists and says he was surprised 'how morally corrupt (in Islamic terms) some al-Qaeda members are'.
Soufan notes that while 'they could quote bin Laden's sayings by heart', in many cases they were largely ignorant about theology.
Soufan used his knowledge of Koran to exploit the personal and intellectual weaknesses of his subjects.
Soufan's encyclopedic knowledge of Al Qaeda helped him to interograte one of Yemen USS Cole bombing, Fahd Mohammed Ahmed al-Quso.
Soufan convinced Quso that he was a double Islamist agent, which led the latter boast about his crimes, thus spilling the beans.