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Truth Serum in Mumbai

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Interrogators will use controversial drug on captured gunman.

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Altaf Qadri

What’s in store for Azam Amir Kasab, the sole surviving Mumbai gunman? According to The Times of London, “Indian police interrogators are preparing to administer a ‘truth serum’ on [him].” India is trying to determine where exactly Kasab is from. They believe that he is from Faridkot, a small town in Punjab province in Pakistan, but Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari said on CNN last night “we have not been given any tangible proof that he is definitely a Paksitani. I very much doubt it … that he is a Pakistani.” Truth serum is banned in most western democracies, but was frequently used in the West during the Cold War. Kasab is being held at an undisclosed location. "All I can say is that it isn't five-star luxury,” said his interrogator.

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