Torture works
A RETIRED CIA agent has confirmed interrogators used a simulated drowning technique on an al-Qaeda suspect and admitted that the disputed method is a form of torture.
Yawn!
Mr Kiriakou said the method broke Zubaydah – one of the first top al-Qaeda suspects captured after the September 11, 2001 attacks – in less than 35 seconds, according to ABC.
“The next day, he told his interrogator that Allah had visited him in his cell during the night and told him to co-operate,” Mr Kiriakou said. “From that day on, he answered every question,” he said. “The threat information he provided disrupted a number of attacks, maybe dozens of attacks.”One for the good guys. Fairly simple really. Apply some pressure,get results and save lives and yet people are still screaming. Inquiries are happening and the media are attacking Bush and the CIA What for?
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If you read the whole report –
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/12/11/agent.tapes/
You’ll note – “he considers the method torture and now opposes its use”
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“Now after all these years, time has passed, and we’re more on our feet in this fight against al Qaeda, and I think it’s unnecessary,” he said.
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“Despite the executive blessing, Kiriakou and other agents were conflicted over whether to learn the technique, he said.”
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“I didn’t think it was right in the long run, and I didn’t want to be associated with it.”
Mossad do a much better job of extracting information from suspects without resorting to these techniques. One of the things that separated us (favourably) from the Yanks in Vietnam was our reluctance to mistreat VC suspects. If you talk to them, the Vietnamese remember this and have great respect for Aussies. What goes round comes round.
re “What goes round comes round”
Really? what exactly have the Vietnamese done to the USA that they haven’t done to Aust?
This has nothing to do with retribution, and everything to do with reconciliation which happened much more rapidly after the Vietnam War in relation to Australia than it did to the USA.
I take pride in my country, and what is done in its name. Visit the War Remnants museum in Saigon and look at the treatment given to the Yanks.
Better still, speak to a Vietnamese veteran of the war – you’ll detect a strong difference in the attitudes held by our ex enemy comparing Australians to Americans.
There’s a story told about the British occupation of Ireland. A Black and Tan has just bayoneted an Irish rebel, and as he is dying, the rebel props himself up on his elbows and asks “Why do you hate us so much?”.
The Brit responds “Because of the terrible things we have done to you”.
It’s only in the last decade that the bitterness attached to this old conflict has begun to subside. When the War on Terror is over, there will be old soldiers.
Better they remember with honour than shame.
Oh yes, I can see the Islamic terrorists being keen to march on ANZAC day in 2025…
Wouldn’t expect them to go that far – I’m not planning Hajj anytime soon.