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December 31, 2005

But what if torture can protect us from terrorism?

The pro-torture arguments just don't add up, according to Brigadier General David R. Irvine.

While torture apologists frequently make the claim that torture saves lives, that assertion is directly contradicted by many Army, FBI, and CIA professionals who have actually interrogated al Qaeda captives. Exhibit A is the torture-extracted confession of Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, an al Qaeda captive who told the CIA in 2001, having been "rendered" to the tender mercies of Egypt, that Saddam Hussein had trained al Qaeda to use WMD. It appears that this confession was the only information upon which, in late 2002, the president, the vice president, and the secretary of state repeatedly claimed that "credible evidence" supported that claim, even though a now-declassified Defense Intelligence Agency report from February 2002 questioned the reliability of the confession because it was likely obtained under torture. Click here to read more

See also: Craig Murray: "Torture means the woman who was raped with a broken bottle, and died after 10 days of agony".

Click here to read the damning documentary evidence of torture complicity that the British government tried to suppress

Posted by richard on December 31, 2005 4:58 PM in the category UK Policy

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Posted by: InplainviewMonitor at December 31, 2005 11:47 PM