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Tuesday, December 11, 2007


A Necessary 35 Seconds?   [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

ABCNews:

A leader of the CIA team that captured the first major al Qaeda figure, Abu Zubaydah, says subjecting him to waterboarding was torture but necessary.

In the first public comment by any CIA officer involved in handling high-value al Qaeda targets, John Kiriakou, now retired, said the technique broke Zubaydah in less than 35 seconds.




 





 

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