Saturday, August 29, 2009

Did Waterboarding Work On Khalid Sheik Mohammed?

Khalid Sheik Mohammed

How A Detainee Became An Asset -- Washington Post

Sept. 11 Plotter Cooperated After Waterboarding

After enduring the CIA's harshest interrogation methods and spending more than a year in the agency's secret prisons, Khalid Sheik Mohammed stood before U.S. intelligence officers in a makeshift lecture hall, leading what they called "terrorist tutorials."

In 2005 and 2006, the bearded, pudgy man who calls himself the mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks discussed a wide variety of subjects, including Greek philosophy and al-Qaeda dogma. In one instance, he scolded a listener for poor note-taking and his inability to recall details of an earlier lecture.

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My Comment: A must read article on torture and its effectiveness and/or lack of.

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