Waterboarding for not being able to recite the alphabet...i think this guy has some serious psychological issues.
they're now using similar punishments on their own kids: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8505376.stm
i was listening to the pbc - pathetic broadcasting corporation - previously known as the bbc. the anchor/participants were repeating ad nauseum goebbelisquely: intense interrogation techniques what some are calling 'torture'. distancing themselves from the word as if it was a racial slur. along with hitchens, these cowardly reporters and their masters need to suffer an hour of 'intense interrogation techniques'. --- bbc is the fox of uk. and i wonder why it is not hunted down yet...
and it was hitchens himself who suggested that it was not torture; to which his critics dared him to undergo and which he did and his U-turn. muddayi laakh pey bhari hai gawahi teri! [o claimant! your witness in my favor is worth a hundred thousand others]
...land of the free...home of the brave...this is the "civilisation" brought to us by the powers of "democracy"...and they call us barbarians.
it is a torture technique used by the CIA (and almost certainly other agencies around the world). British writer Christopher Hitchens agreed to be waterboarded for Vanity Fair magazine. Watch his experience here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuhJUmR4B6Q It is frightening even to watch!