Physically torturing someone for information is inhumanity in the extreme. Realizing that much (if not most) of the info you receive could be made up makes the whole process look pretty damn stupid. May we return to the 21st century now?
Detainee Alleges Abuse in CIA Prison
Torture Coerced Confession, He Says
GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba, March 30 — A high-level al-Qaeda suspect who was in CIA custody for more than four years has alleged that his American captors tortured him into making false confessions about terrorist attacks in the Middle East, according to newly released Pentagon transcripts of a March 14 military tribunal hearing here.
Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, who U.S. officials believe was involved in the bombings of two U.S. embassies in East Africa in 1998 and who allegedly organized the attack on the USS Cole in Yemen in 2000, told a panel of military officers that he was repeatedly tortured during his imprisonment and that he admitted taking part in numerous terrorism plots because of the mistreatment.
“The detainee states that he was tortured into confession and once he made a confession his captors were happy and they stopped torturing him,” Nashiri’s representative read to the tribunal, according to the transcript. “Also, the detainee states that he made up stories during the torture in order to get it to stop.”
(h/t Bat for the article)
