CIA interrogators used the controverisal waterboarding technique 183 times on Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the mastermind behind the September 11 attacks and 83 times on another al Qaeda suspect, according to the New York Times.
A 2005 Justice Department memorandum revealed that the simulated drowning technique was used on Mohammed 183 times in March 2003.
Abu Zubaydah, the first prisoner questioned in the CIA’s overseas detention program in August 2002, was waterboarded 83 times, although a former CIA officer had told news organisations he had been subjected to only 35 seconds underwater before agreeing to tell everything he knew.
President Barack Obama has banned the use of waterboarding, over-turning a Bush administration policy that it did not constitute torture.
via September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed ‘waterboarded 183 times’ – Times Online.
183 times too few in my opinion. This is a cold hearted murderer, please do not ask me to shed a tear because he was put through some discomfort.
The sooner America wakes up to the nature of the beast they are fighting the safer it will be for everybody.
Terrorists have no regards to human life period.
I think that only an anti-fertility virus will solve the problem, gradually, silently, warlessly
How did Al Qaeda know the location of Sheik Muhammad before being moved to Guantanamo,knew when he was being moved along with others and knew he had been tortured?
This is what we need to focus on!
I would say there intelligence gathering is pretty good.
What sourse did the New York Times use? I herd that they got their information off of a left wing blog. Is that true or did anyone even question where they got their information.
How many lives has these interrogation methods saved? 2 million that I can think of.
Our CIA acted just fine. The prisoner kept all their fingers & toes, treated fairly well.
What did they do to their prisoners? Beheadings, forced to eat their own excrement, & fake executions.
I can only speak for myself.
The President shames me – he humiliates me by bowing to an arab king,
being passive while buttheads insult the US,
he will not say the Pledge of Allegiance,
he does not salute the Flag of America,
found in a church preaching hate against America,
claims to be muslim,
embraces the enemies of America,
he is the single factor that will bring America to it’s knees.
America is a Christian based country, may God have mercy on us.