Posted on 12/10/2007 8:15:47 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
A leader of the CIA team that captured the first major al Qaeda figure, Abu Zubaydah, says subjecting him to waterboarding was torture but necessary.
In the first public comment by any CIA officer involved in handling high-value al Qaeda targets, John Kiriakou, now retired, said the technique broke Zubaydah in less than 35 seconds.
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"The next day, he told his interrogator that Allah had visited him in his cell during the night and told him to cooperate," said Kiriakou in an interview to be broadcast tonight on ABC News' "World News With Charles Gibson" and "Nightline."
"From that day on, he answered every question," Kiriakou said. "The threat information he provided disrupted a number of attacks, maybe dozens of attacks."
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Kiriakou said the feeling in the months after the 9/11 attacks was that interrogators did not have the time to delve into the agency's bag of other interrogation tricks.
"Those tricks of the trade require a great deal of time -- much of the time -- and we didn't have that luxury. We were afraid that there was another major attack coming," he said.
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pingaroo!
Harry Reid ain’t gonna like this.
Gee. The hippies are apoplectic over less than 35 seconds of “torture.”
Typical.
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Sputter alert...
Wow. Welcome to the real world, folks.
Isn’t that Fred Savage?
It won't won't matter. The Dems still consider panties on the head to be on par with beheadings.
Amen!
Yeah, star of Waterboarding Years.
Fine, then send him to the Middle East...
Beats what islam uses: drills to the skull and eyeballs that the victims DO NOT survive to tell, only the morticians or witnessess document the scene.
Waterboarding is not torture. During SERE training, our boys and girls go through a lot worse than waterboarding.
It’s torture because they call it so, not because it causes real harm, disfigurement or intense pain.
The real issue at the root of this is that there are those who refuse to allow the US to be able to acquire intel from prisoners or any other source at any time for any reason by any process.
Next they’re going after allowing us to even capture anyone at any time in any circumstance for any duration.
We are evil and must be made to suffer until we are rightfully destroyed. And it is persons born and raised in this country that believe that with every ounce of their being and not through religious conviction, but ideological.
They are enemy. Both by their allegiance to our enemy and by their acts and actions in support of our enemy.
According to the GC definition girls JV softball is torture.
Well, I played varsity softball right from freshman year. :-)
Exactly. Wate rboarding is not torture by any shape or form, but I do not give a damn if some people want to call it torture, it works very well and we should be doing it to each islamic terrorist we capture.
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