Osama Bin Laden is Dead!!!

[dmg1969]

Originally Posted by DanaC

Sleep deprivation is not mainly psychological in nature. It can cause serious physiological damage.

As if someone who is willing to strap a bomb to themselves and blow themselves up to kill you and I isn't already seriously psychologically damaged?

Misread that. I see you said physiological. My opinion remains. If it provides information which prevents you or I from getting killed, I'm good with it. It's a far cry from shoving bamboo shoots under their fingernails, cutting off fingers or burning them with red hot knife blades. Again, we're not dealing with people with the same thought process as you and I. Your chances of getting information from them using standard techniques (especially high value detainees) are almost nil.

One final addition is that the physiological effects of sleep deprivation appear to be from LONG term deprivation...not short term.