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To: Road Walker who wrote (474726)	4/24/2009 12:05:54 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573782

Jonathan S. Landay at McClatchy has discovered the real reason that Abu Zubaydah and Khalid Sheikh Muhammad were tortured dozens of times in the run-up to the Iraq War. You do realize there were only 18 days between the date of KSM's capture and the start of the war? Which information in the "runup" to the Iraq War, EXACTLY, did KSM provide?

To: Road Walker who wrote (474726)	4/24/2009 1:01:51 PM
From: jlallen	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1573782

McClatchy? lol The Enquirer has more cred.

To: Road Walker who wrote (474726)	4/24/2009 1:10:08 PM
From: bentway	1 Recommendation Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1573782

Which is what the Japanese and the communists used waterboarding for - to force the victims to make false statements, not to elicit intelligence. The technique used repeatedly is effective at getting the victims to believe and propogate false propaganda, as it seems to break the victims grip on reality and what IS true. So, it's not very useful at getting useful intelligence, since a victim will say ANYTHING to make it stop.