Report: Harsh Methods Used On 9/11 Suspect(Cry me a river barf alert)

Washington Post ^ | August 5, 2007 | Josh White, Julie Tate and Joby Warrick

[Kaslin]

Article Details Torture That Mastermind Said He Endured

Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, was subjected to the CIA's harshest interrogation methods while he was held in secret prisons around the world for more than three years, part of an interrogation regimen that the International Committee of the Red Cross has called "tantamount to torture," according to a New Yorker article to be published on the magazine's Web site today.

In a 12-page article released yesterday, reporter Jane Mayer analyzes the development of the CIA's secret interrogation techniques and writes that a confidential ICRC report to the U.S. government details Mohammed's assertions that he was tortured by the CIA. Unnamed Washington sources told Mayer that Mohammed said he was held naked in his cell, questioned by female interrogators to humiliate him, attached to a dog leash and made to run into walls, and put in painful positions while chained to the floor. Mohammed also said he was "waterboarded" -- a simulated drowning -- in addition to being held in suffocating heat and painfully cold conditions. Mohammed's captors also told him shortly after his arrest in March 2003: "We're not going to kill you. But we're going to take you to the very brink of your death and back," the article said.

[wastedyears]

***They should’ve waxed his back. *shudder* ***

Now that is cruel and unusual punishment, and a crime against humanity.

[faq]

“Unnamed Washington sources told Mayer that Mohammed said....” that a guy Mohammed once knew also had this cousin who’s friend was tortured in the prison too!

[ChocChipCookie]

Feel free to shoot them an email. I just did.

[Little Ray]

That’s nice. Now put him out of our misery with a bullet to the back of his head.

[PEACE ENFORCER]

This “unnamed” Washington source should be identified and given a “Dunk in The Water”.

[Brilliant]

Did he give up Osama’s location?

The interrogation was obviously not harsh enough.

[Kaslin]

You forgot this

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[Hoffer Rand]

Two comments: First, terrorists are all taught to lie about this. Second, what did they do? Use size 16 polyester white briefs instead of cute lacy thongs on the obligatory panties on head torture? Awwwww. Did they hurt the poor little terrorist’s feelings? Awwwww.

[Kaslin]

Eww, how gross

[HeartlandOfAmerica]

"tantamount to torture,"

Ah. Not torture. Just "tantamount" to torture.

I don't want tantamount. I want torture.

If "tantamount" is the best these lefty UN/ICRC pukes can come up with, they got nothing.

[Hoffer Rand]

I’d prefer the bullet between the eyes. That way his face is still recognizable. Then post his postmortem picture with every news outlet.

[Kaslin]

Yeah, I noticed that too

[avacado]

...part of an interrogation regimen that the International Committee of the Red Cross has called "tantamount to torture,"

Tantamount to? They aren't actually calling it torture. Just more sheep food for the liberals.

[MEGoody]

In general, I'm not in favor of torture (unless it can extract information that can save lives). But I'm having a particularly hard time feeling sorry for the man who masterminded the horrible murders of 3,000 of our citizens.

And the Red Cross can kiss my hinney. They've become nothing but a leftist organization. I never give them a cent.

[pogo101]

KSM had tons of valuable, life-saving information — stuff about operations in progress seeking to kill thousands. He was indeed worth more alive than dead.

[reagan_fanatic]

The WOT and the West in general is doomed if this kind of thinking ever becomes majority thought.

We are dealing with people for whom life has no meaning and there are no second thoughts about torturing, mutilating and killing innocent people to further their evil cause.

Orgs like the ICRC had better pull their collective heads out of their asses while they're still attached.

[jrooney]

Good. I am glad they were. He sung like a canary and gave up his sources which prevented some attacks.

[Beckwith]

Not as hard as the punishment Daniel Pearl and dozens of others received.

These bleeding hearts make me want to puke.

[Lewite]

ALL muleslime ragheads are liars. Why should anyone believe this steaming POS islime pervert.

[trimom]

Imagine how he’d feel if he were a girl-child in a school in, oh, let’s say Breslan. I wonder if he would think THAT was torture.