November 30, 2007
Mapping Out the Interrogation of Ghazi Falah
In the annals of interrogation, one primary source serves again and again to describe the experience of forced sleep deprivation.
"In the head of the interrogated prisoner, a haze begins to form. His spirit is wearied to death, his legs are unsteady, and he has one sole desire: to sleep," the account says. "Anyone who has experienced this desire knows that not even hunger and thirst are comparable with it."
The source of this much-quoted passage is the memoir White Nights: The
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