Effectiveness Of Harsh Questioning Is Unclear
During his first days in detention, senior al-Qaeda operative Khalid Sheik Mohammed was stripped of his clothes, beaten, given a forced enema and shackled with his arms chained above his head, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross. It was then, a Red Cross report says, that his American captors told him to prepare for "a hard time."
Over the next 25 days, beginning on March 6, 2003, Mohammed was put through a routine in which ...
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At the post-WW II Nurnberg Trials, we rejected the excuse that people were "only following orders." When will we apply the same standards to our own people and actions?