torture is wrong

 

In a front page article of several thousand words about KSM and his upcoming trial The New York times finds itself unable to mention that he has served as an unwilling laboratory for torture techniques. The article cites testimony obtained by torture but conveniently fails to mention how it was obtained. The New York Times characterizes KSM’s false information given during his torture as an example of KSM “ demonstrating his tendency toward grandiosity”. In all of this verbiage, the article  has  this and only this to say about his torture:

 

“Mr. Mohammed’s initial defiance toward his captors set off an interrogation plan that would turn him into the central figure in the roiling debate over the C.I.A’s interrogation methods. He was subjected 183 times to the near-drowning technique called waterboarding, treatment that Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. has called torture. But advocates of the C.I.A’s methods, including former Vice President Dick Cheney, have said that the interrogation methods produced a trove of information that helped dismantle Al Qaeda and disrupt potential terrorism attacks.”

 

 

For information about the torture of KSM, which is evidently unavailable to  The New York Times, you can read the Red Cross Report here: