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'Vomiting and screaming' in destroyed waterboarding tapes
Secret CIA video tapes of the waterboarding of Osama Bin Laden's suspected jihadist travel arranger Abu Zubaydah show him vomiting and screaming, the BBC has learned.
The tapes were destroyed by the head of the CIA's Counterterrorism Center, Jose Rodriguez.
In an exclusive interview for Newsnight, Rodriguez has defended the destruction of the tapes and denied waterboarding and other interrogation techniques amount to torture.
The CIA tapes are likely to become central to the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of 9/11, at Guantanamo Bay.
'Vomiting and screaming' in destroyed waterboarding tapes
By Peter Taylor
BBC Newsnight
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When Khalid Sheikh Mohammed appeared before a special military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay last Saturday, he refused to put on the headphones that would enable him to hear the translator.
His civilian attorney, David Nevin, said he could not wear them because of the torture he had suffered during his interrogation.
Waterboarding, which simulates drowning, was used in the interrogation of three al-Qaeda suspects
His "torture" at the hands of his CIA interrogators at a secret "black site" to which he had been rendered, included being deprived of sleep for over a week, standing naked, wearing only a nappy, and being waterboarded 183 times.
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Most people would probably call them "torture", but Jose Rodriguez disputes this term.
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'Vomiting and screaming' in destroyed waterboarding tapes (Original Post)
kpete
May 2012
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Rodriguez is a self-serving liar. Much like the rest of the guilty who want to
Solly Mack
May 2012
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pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)1. K&R
spanone
(135,919 posts)2. and mr rodriguez proudly claims he destroyed the torture tapes...
provis99
(13,062 posts)4. that bastard Rodriguez was also knee deep in the Iran-Contra scandal.
He's been an anti-democratic right wing shit his whole life.
Uncle Joe
(58,506 posts)3. Jose is full of shit, that's torture plain and simple.
You can't almost drown someone repeatedly and that not be torture, period.
Thanks for the thread, kpete.
Solly Mack
(90,798 posts)5. Rodriguez is a self-serving liar. Much like the rest of the guilty who want to
call torture by some other name.
The enablers and the apologists do the same.