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Re: 'Torture' saved British lives...
btw, it's torture, not "torture" - HMG treats it as illegal.
As to the efficacy of it - BBC
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According to ex-CIA officer John Kiriakou, al-Qaeda suspect Abu Zubaydah "broke" within half a minute. Abu Zubaydah said later that he had made things up to satisfy his interrogators.
However, the New York Times reported on 19 April 2009 that a Justice Department memo revealed that CIA interrogators used the waterboarding technique 183 times on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the admitted planner of the September 11 attacks, and 83 times on Abu Zubaydah.
The figures undermine the suggestion that the technique produces rapid results.
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