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Many of these prisoners may have been driven to psychosis or engineered to show the signs of psychosis, alienation being one of the prerequisites to starting the cycle. The first thing the U.S. may try to claim is that they have become dangerous pyschotics (driven to it by continuous trauma and invasive surveillance with symptoms of post traumatic shock syndrome mixed in which can cause symptoms of violence). Therefore, the prisoners can be released but they will have to be confined forever to psychiatric hospitals. Psychiatrists may even try to claim that their psychotic symptoms were "dormant" and that it just took the proper conditions to "release" them. After all, religious fanatacism produces a psychological imbalance that can produce all sorts of psychopathologies.
Human rights organization will need to be particularly vigilant regarding the psychiatric analysis and care these individuals receive as their "psychotic" symptoms may not be as serious as they seem or may be a conglommeration of symptoms mascarading as late stage psychosis. Stockholm syndrome can play tricks on the mind and produce scatology, etc. because that is what the captors want the prisoners to produce. Their minds and wills are being purposely weakened.
