Planner of 9/11 attacks, waterboarded 183 times

What Dick Cheney & friends water boarded!,no?...

You would think after the 164th time or so they would have gotten bored and tried something else...

184 would have been better

http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2009/04/20/gaza-hamas-should-end-killings-torture

Yeah when the US tortures we're no better than these guys.

Yea how do we know this guy really did do it?

Hell, I know if I was water boarded 183 I would tell them anything.

The CIA waterboarded itsself?

only 183 times? he should be tortured a million times for every person who has died so far in association with 9/11

I agree that this sounds more like Israhell than America, but then again DumbYa was in charge and he is equally as evil as Nutinyahoo. Torture does not work and this article is proof. Now maybe Israhell will realize it and quit torturing human beings.

only 183 times?

Torture doesn't work on the tortured, It only keeps people (our people) in fear of our own government, because when it is allowed to keep going what would stop such a government to torture lets say a political prisoner who didn't side with the same government. If something isn't done about this black mark on our history, then I fear for us and our people CIA and military in future conflicts.

183 times and he is still healthy and alive?
Doesn't seem like true torture to me.
Do not get me wrong, torture is wrong at any level. But all the publicity I have seen about the terror of water torture has been nullified by the amount of times this POS has been thru it. Hook a set of battery cables to him and tweek it 183 times. His heart will give out.
He admitted to planning 9/11 b4 he was even tortured.
Did we get anything else out of him with this?
If anybody thinks this is the first time this great nation has used torture, you are sadly mistaken. My uncle told me what they used to do with the N. Vietnamese when they interrogated them.
They would take 4 up in a chopper and hover at 200 feet.
Before asking any questions they would toss one out of the chopper. They would then ask the 1st question. The other 3 would talk so much the G.I. s would threaten to toss another out to shut them up.
It is easy to sit back and judge, which we jaded citizens do constantly.
Until you are put in a situation of kill or stop the killing, you should not judge. t On the day of 9/11, I seriously doubt there was not one American who would not have tortured and killed any one of the conspirator's, if they were apprehended.
Have we really forgotten the suffering of that week after only a few years?

TORTURE is INTENDED to TERRORIZE the POPULACE (US!), NOT THE ENEMY!

Though its use is questionable, I simply can not feel sorry for this man. Quite simply, I don't care if he was water boarded 2 times or two hundred. It has got us usefull information in the past but it has also sent use down false roads. But when Obama released this report, it only helps the terrorists because now they know we won't use very harsh techniques in interrogating.

remember that we're going on the bush administrations word that it was this sheikh mohammed guy, they said it was him, doesn't make it true.

Fuck that guy.

How many man-hours were spent by the military chasing down FALSE leads blurted out by low-level nobody’s under torture? Did we waste 3 weeks investigating that worthless intel obtained under torture or was it closer to 3 months? How much MONEY did we waste in paying CIA analysts to track down phony leads that some low-level nobody blurted out in desperation while we were ass-raping, I mean, “aggressively interrogating” them in GitMo. S’funny how THOSE statistics are never released.

(Note to Tea Party tax protesters: GitMo wasted a whole lotta money over the last six years.)

Now obviously when someone is waterboarded on the 102nd time they will say something – anything! – in order to get you to stop. Soooo…what’s the point? I could waterboard any soccer mom off the street and get the same worthless gibberish.

“Where’s Osama?!?”

(glup! glup!) “Okay! Okay! He’s, uh, he’s, uh, living in Tucson Az in the Sunset trailer park!”

“Finally! Send 1,000 agents to the Sunset Trailer park immediately! We got’em boys! We finally got’em!”

Um…..no. You don’t got’em. W

I mean seriously….didn’t ALL the accused witches in Salem eventually confess after they were “aggressively interrogated”?

The lesson here is that there is no fast Jack Bauer-esque method to instantly figuring out the bad guys plans. It takes actual detective work. The idea that (like Batman in the comic books) you can just grab some mugger off the street, punch him in the face once time, and then get a detailed explanation of Al-Qaida’s operating structure, Swiss bank accounts and complete list of secret locations is pure fantasy. Which is probably why those scenarios have up until recently existed exclusively on cheap made-for-tv movies, cheesy 1980’s Chuck Norris films and comic books.

Speaking of which, I’m going to add “Red Dawn” to my Netflix queue.

Well you know, if he doesn't crack after 182 waterboard sessions, try, try again.

That is a shame, I could see barbaric stuff like this happening in Israel but not the US.

This is why torture doesn't work. If makes the 'confessions' unreliable.

Does anyone remember how during the election they were playing up his trial and then after it was over, POOF, media silence?

Whatever happened to this guy anyway?

Redeeming ourselves will be a long and difficult road. The first time someone attacks us the proponents of this type of vile behavior will say "see". That is why I do not think just airing the facts is good enough. This requires a reckoning.

So... the million dollar question of the day is, was it a fact that this man actually planned the 9/11 attacks before he was captured by government officials, or did they "find out" he was behind it all sometime in between the 183 times this guy was waterboarded?

Twist someone's finger long enough, and they'll tell you anything you want to hear.

How do you know the man didn't just say whatever the people torturing him wanted to hear?

If you were being tortured EVERY DAY until you admitted your guilt, would you do it?

Bush was waterboarded?

If torture worked, then shouldn't they have been able to get the information they wanted after the first 50-60 times????

Good point Eldamon. Why 183 times? Does sound a bit much.

Wow, they are either really fast at that water boarding thing or they just kept doing it for fun after he broke in under a min as they said. OR the lied through their barbaric, under handed, law breaking, backward ass teeth - AGAIN!

by the way, does anybody else think this guy looks like Ron Jeremy after a rough night?

The question that we have to ask of ourselves is this...What would our response be if these revelations were concerning the interrogation of a captured American soldier....this is the problem with torturing people, you lose all moral authority to prosecute and punish others for doing it to your own...as well as not getting reliable information...I can tell you that the thought of someone putting a blow torch to my nuts would make me tell them things that I don't even have knowledge of, if I thought it would make them stop.

I'm very much against torturing even the worst of the terrorists . . . but did they really have to use the worst of the terrorists as an example?

I find it hard to be sympathetic for the guy that planned the sept 11 attacks . . . though waterboarding and other forms of torture definitely shouldn't be going on in US detention facilities. We should be above that.

It's sad that America has stooped so low...
This is what happens when we're no longer one nation under God...
Freedom comes with responsibility...

President Barack Obama has banned the use of waterboarding, overturning a Bush administration policy that it did not constitute torture.