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CIA methods on 9/11 suspect revealed

That renditioning by the CIA, with the active support of many foreign governments, goes on is now beyond doubt or question. It is, of course, contrary to every tenet of law and justice let alone simple decency and humanity. Then again, people like Professor Alan Dershowitz - who disgraces the title of professor and lawyers as well as his tenure at Harvard University - says that torture in certain circumstances is justified.

The Washington Post has an interesting revelation and insight on the way the CIA dealt with one of the suspected 9/11 suspects - for no less than 3 years.

"Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, was subjected to the CIA's harshest interrogation methods while he was held in secret prisons around the world for more than three years, part of an interrogation regimen that the International Committee of the Red Cross has called "tantamount to torture," according to a New Yorker article to be published on the magazine's Web site today.

In a 12-page article released yesterday, reporter Jane Mayer analyzes the development of the CIA's secret interrogation techniques and writes that a confidential ICRC report to the U.S. government details Mohammed's assertions that he was tortured by the CIA. Unnamed Washington sources told Mayer that Mohammed said he was held naked in his cell, questioned by female interrogators to humiliate him, attached to a dog leash and made to run into walls, and put in painful positions while chained to the floor. Mohammed also said he was "waterboarded" -- a simulated drowning -- in addition to being held in suffocating heat and painfully cold conditions. Mohammed's captors also told him shortly after his arrest in March 2003: "We're not going to kill you. But we're going to take you to the very brink of your death and back," the article said."

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