Torture possibility denies U.S. real answers (Montreal Gazette)

[struggle4progress]

Janet Bagnall, Montreal Gazette
Published: Monday, March 26, 2007

... Former CIA officer Bob Baer, interviewed by ABC News, said, "You can get anyone to confess to anything if the torture's bad enough."

Daniel Pearl's father rejected the confession outright. "He wants to take credit for doing it, and he wants to exonerate al-Qaeda, blame Pakistan and whatever," said Judea Pearl in an interview with ABC News ...

George Simpson, one of two "dead soldiers" whom Mohammed claimed had been killed in a 2002 attack in Kuwait, wrote last week to a Internet-based reporter, saying he was "still alive and ticking."

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was arrested in 2003 in Pakistan. Human Rights Watch has charged that the CIA then arranged for Mohammed to vanish into a secret jail in Jordan. There, Human Rights Watch said, Mohammed was subjected to practices such as water boarding ...

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[baldguy]

1. DUH! The civilized world has known this a century.

Too bad we got our leaders from Saudi Texanistan.