The School of Yusuf – (Part 6)
Our respected beloved brother:
We had promised you that we will write for you a subject on ways of dealing with the detectives and about that battle that is fought by our Mujahid brother in the prisons of the Tyrants........
Yes, it is a war whose first phase starts at the time of capture and passes through phases, the most dangerous of which is the phase of interrogation.
We talked about this phase in an independent topic in which we reminded you of its weapon which is faith in Allah alone, by the aid of which some weak were very steadfast while the absence of which caused even scholars to relapse, I mean those scholars who did not work upon their knowledge and were not guided on the guidance of their Lord. And this topic is specifically for you, by the will of Almighty- to understand the tricks of the enemies and their deception and cunning in the prisons which conspire to deviate you from the path of your Sustainer. Therefore understand it and you will succeed and be guided on the right path- by the grace of Allah, the Almighty-
Brother, the tricks of the enemy and his ways to extract information may be through physical torture or through psychological torture. The latter being the most dangerous and so our elaboration and explanation on it will be more detailed.
And since the Mujahid brother, when he is tortured and his body is physically injured, knows that this is for the religion, it increases his firmness and he remembers immediately the saying of Allah, the Almighty
(لَنْ يَضُرُّوكُمْ إِلَّا أَذًى ) (1) . They will do you no harm, barring a trifling annoyance(3:111)As for the psychological methods, they are the most dangerous and effective for the enemy and thus most frequently used. This is because, the brother, during the interrogation doesn’t get injured and does not realise their cunning and does not know that he is being fought and thus he thinks that the enemy is a friend and the far one is a near one.
That is why we prefered to start with the most important before the important. However before beginning with the methods, there are some prefaces and directions that are indispensible
The techniques of the enemy may either beFirstly, the techniques and various ways of psychologically morale-targeting ways
So, the series of psychological war against the Mujahid brother starts at the time of capture, when the hands and legs are cuffed. It is an effort to show their power and terrorize the people. This series continues when the brother first keeps his leg on the first tiles of the prison. He is then blindfolded and the light handcuffs are exchanged with heavy iron ones. Then the prisoner is taken to the interrogation offices, and he stands in front of their doors for long hours. Some of them stand, by Allah, for days and nothing is asked of him, and his eyes are covered while some of them have their ears covered too. He doesn’t hear anything and if he hears, he hears only the voice of chains, or the screams of his prisoner brothers, and this is done in some places like the Land of the 2 Holy sancturies. However in some places they are directly entered into prisons.
After that, the battle begins, and the lion stands lofty, proud of his religion, trusting his Lord, patient, hoping for reward of what is befalling him of hardship, remembering, that this is a battle between Islam and Kufr and it is either Paradise or Hell.
After that the brother stays engaged in the remembrance of his Lord until the caller arrives, ‘Hasten forth to your interrogation’ or ‘You have interrogation’. Then, the Inspector interrogator who is responsible of your case starts by interrogating you in a primary interrogation in which he studies your psychology and the best way to deal with you, and then he returns you and decides about you. There are various psychological ways that they use invariably with our brothers and from them are-
1) The ‘Good Guy, Bad Guy’ TechniquePerhaps this technique will be applied using one or two interrogators, one of them will be ‘Good Guy’ and the other will be ‘Bad Guy’. From the matters that ‘Good guy’-s will try to lure you with, is that they will say that if you confess we will release you or we will cooperate with you in lightening your case or the duration of your imprisonment and we will inform the concerned authorities that you are cooperative, or they might say that if you confess we will hasten the interrogation and you will go to the ‘collective’ (prison) and your case will be closed and you will rest.....
And other temptations of the sort that they will try to tempt you with so that you confess. However, in reality, if you confess, they will greed for more confessions, until when you have confessed with all what you have and the enemy of Allah is assured that you have removed all what is in your pocket from secrets, then the satanic envying self will appear that hid its envy of Jihad and the Mujahideen. Then the interrogator will start his revenge on you, and you will be tortured with different kinds and types of tortures. However if the torture is taken with firmness and concealment of secrets then it becomes easy, but with defeatism it will be difficult and heavy on the self and the reward is from the root of the work.
As for the ‘Bad guy’-s, the interrogator will show from the very beginning, his extreme severe and envious personality, and he will use language like the language of Abu Jahl and the Leaders of Quraysh with Ammar and Yasir and Bilal and Khubaib (May Allah be pleased with them), words so bullying and proud as though everything is in their hands, and they know not that all matter is in Allah’s hands alone. They will threaten of killing and torture and say that we will beat you non stop and so on and other forms of terrorism.
This terrorizing technique does not end at any limit, for if they could terrorize you with the fire of hell, they would do so. And perhaps the interrogator will come to you accompanied with his slave soldiers carrying electrical sticks, the interrogator wants with this to terrorize you and frighten you
2) ‘Enemy and Friend’ TechniqueMost of the time they use this technique through 2 interrogators. One of them comes in the form of an enemy, tyranish and oppresive, and the other viels as a delicate and merciful personality that is concerned about you, so through the latter one they come to you and with him, they deceive you and through him they grab confessions.
3) ‘Lack of Concern’ techniqueThe scenario of this is that the interrogator will pretend that he is not concerned about you, so, for example, he does not interrogate you and does not ask about you and you stay in solitary confinement for very long hours unasked about and uninterrogated. Or you are interrogated once and then he leaves you for several long months. This technique is often used in cases that do not require immediate information from the prisoners. So the counter attack for this is to use the same technique. So you too should pretend that you are not concerned, and that you are comfortable in the prisons and do not want to meet him. If he feels this from you then he will try to change his technique.
4) The technique of Magnifying (your case)The interrogator starts with you by a case that you have no connection with, so he might say for example, you have link in the murder of so and so President or that you were involved in so and so operation or the assasination of so and so. And he will pressurize you so that you start finding your own case light and you might say in yourself ‘My case is much simpler’. Thus you might confess something following the rule of ‘Chosing the lesser evil’. This has one another goal too and that is, when you deny and you are right and truthful, your facial contours will appear in a particular way, so the interrogator will know thereafter, if you deny something else, whether you are truthful or otherwise, through your experssions and contours of your face and your reaction in the denial.
And I remember the story of one of the brothers- May Allah hasten his release- The interrogator asked him ‘Where were you before the 11 september attack?’,the interrogator wanted to magnify the case before the brother. So the brother said ‘I was in one of the aeroplanes that carried out the attack’, and this is one of the good ways, i.e. mocking, specially when they use the Magnifying technique with you
5) The technique of LighteningThe interrogator tries to convince you that your case is quite simple and easy and does not require denial and that denial only complicates it
6) The technique of Boring outAnd in this the interrogator tries to penetrate boredom on you, so for example, when he finishes the interrogation, he repeats the interrogation once again. Or he interrogates with you in a rotation at the same point, like – ‘From where did you enter the so and so place? and Who was with you?’ and these two questions will be asked for a long time and so on.
And we will complete in the next edition, Allah willing- the psychological and physical techniques and some ways to counterattack them, so that the detained Mujahid brother comes out from this battle, triumphed, happy for the triumph of His Lord...so be with us
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Dar Al Murabiteen publications
The School of Yusuf part 6
Sada Al Malahim magazine
Issue 6
Subject: Now Realeased- The School of Yusuf (peace be upon him)- Part 6 
Wed Aug 12, 2009 10:15 am
