Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Apparently KSM was waterboarded 5 times rather than 183 times as previously reported.

Fox News reports that a lot of breathless reporting about Khalid Sheikh Mohammed being waterboarded 183 times are simply incorrect. Fox says that
A U.S. official with knowledge of the interrogation program told FOX News that
the much-cited figure represents the number of times water was poured onto
Mohammed's face -- not the number of times the CIA applied the
simulated-drowning technique on the terror suspect. According to a 2007 Red Cross report, he was subjected a total of "five sessions of ill-treatment."

Anyone who sees the 183 sessions as constituting torture needs to rethink their position.

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