Planner of 9/11 attacks waterboarded 183 times-NYT
4-19-2009
WASHINGTON, April 19 (Reuters) – CIA interrogators used the waterboarding technique on Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the admitted planner of the Sept. 11 attacks, 183 times and 83 times on another al Qaeda suspect, The New York Times said on Sunday.
The Times said a 2005 Justice Department memorandum showed that Abu Zubaydah, the first prisoner questioned in the CIA’s overseas detention program in August 2002, was waterboarded 83 times, although a former CIA officer had told news media he had been subjected to only 35 seconds underwater before talking.
President Barack Obama has banned the use of waterboarding, overturning a Bush administration policy that it did not constitute torture.
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Question from No Lies Radio: If you were waterboarded 183 times would you admit to having planned 911 if your torturers wanted to hear that?





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