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Published: 22 December, 2008, 09:29

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Former U.S. military interrogator Matthew Alexander, says fear and torture are inefficient in obtaining information from terrorist suspects.

He says atrocities in Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison and the camp at Guantanamo only helped Al Qaeda recruit new fighters.

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