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When the FBI interrogated Saddam Hussein, it did it the right way:
Instead of bright lights, loud music or waterboarding, the Beirut-born Arabic speaker - who immigrated to the U.S. as a teen - built a rapport with the dictator nabbed in a spider hole. He treated him with respect and took care of his every need. On his birthday, Piro showed Saddam news clippings showing that Iraqis no longer celebrated the date. But then the agent gave him baklava Piro's Lebanese mother sent him in Baghdad. They talked about sports and Saddam's pulp novels, and soon the despot was spilling his guts over thick cups of Folger's.This is what you do when you actually want to get information from someone. Torture is for getting false confessions and for practicing cruelty.