Captives held by Islamic State were waterboarded

[DonViejo]

Source: Washington Post

At least four hostages held in Syria by the Islamic State, including an American journalist who was recently executed by the group, were waterboarded in the early part of their captivity, according to people familiar with the treatment of the kidnapped Westerners.

James Foley was among the four who were waterboarded several times by Islamic State militants who appeared to model the technique on the CIA’s use of waterboarding to interrogate suspected terrorists after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.


Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/captives-held-by-islamic-state-were-waterboarded/2014/08/28/2b4e1962-2ec9-11e4-9b98-848790384093_story.html

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The chickens are coming home to roost

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. Gosh, where could they have learned that....

Next thing you know, they'll be parading captives naked on dog leashes and strapping them up into 'stress positions' for hours on end.

[Dont call me Shirley]

2. Oh, they must be republicans of the bush/Cheney ilk.

[CJCRANE]

3. Are we sure these guys aren't neocons

in disguise?

[ballyhoo]

6. What? They were trained by

neocon operatives. That was discussed last week.

[CJCRANE]

7. I missed that

but I assumed as much.

[RKP5637]

4. Yep, "What goes around comes around." n/t

[AZ Mike]

5. At least it's not torture....

.... just "enhanced interrogation techniques".

We now have no recourse or moral authority on this specific matter.

[Lochloosa]

15. Bingo!

[tanyev]

17. I'll be interested to see how many RWers suddenly discover that they are now outraged by it.

[LuckyLib]

18. Exactly. We don't have a leg to stand on.

[truth2power]

8. It's only enhanced interrogatio, after all. No problem..

Sauce for the goose...

Two choices: either Cheney, Rummy, Bush in prison for life for their crimes against humanity; or this is nothing to be concerned about.

[raven mad]

9. Karma. I hate that they learned from us.

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[morningfog]

10. This is a part of the blowback that those of us against the 2003 Iraq invasion warned of.

Let's not repeat the mistake again.

[deminks]

11. Well, this is a fine how do you do (sarcasm)

If the neocons say the journalist was tortured, then so were all the people we waterboarded. (which is the truth, btw).

If the neocons say the journalist was not tortured, cause waterboarding ain't torture, then no prob., no excuse for war.

How say u, dick cheeeney?

[SummerSnow]

12. Terrorist will say Cheney said it was enhanced negotiations not torture we did nothing wrong.

Damn Dick

[flamingdem]

13. They have plenty of their own torture methods

Let's keep the blame on Isis. They'd like us to blame the West for their barbarity.

[jwirr]

14. When the bushie administration okayed this kind of torture they opened the door for others to ignore

the international agreement against torture. Way to go chaney !!! Not to say that they wouldn't have used torture without our example.

[PSPS]

16. Were they "folks?"

[Turbineguy]

19. Well, they probably did it

for fun.

[Exultant Democracy]

20. Is it torture yet?

[blkmusclmachine]

21. Since the US got away with it scot free, why can't everybody else do it, too?!?!