標題: Torture used to obtain bin Laden hideout information: ex-CIA man [打印本頁] 作者: tiffiant 時間: 2011-5-5 07:20 標題: Torture used to obtain bin Laden hideout information: ex-CIA man
Torture used to obtain bin Laden hideout information: ex-CIA man
Key intelligence that led the U.S. to Osama bin Laden's hideout was obtained under torture in secret "black site" prisons, a former CIA officer has claimed.
Jose Rodriguez, the agency's former head of counter-terrorism, said vital information had come from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Abu Faraj al-Libi, two deputies of bin Laden who were subjected to "enhanced interrogation techniques".
Mohammed, who he refers to as KSM, was tortured using simulated drowning, or "waterboarding". He started "spilling his guts" when he realized "resistance was unwise", another official boasted.
The comments, in an interview with Time magazine, prompted an immediate denial from the White House, which said there was "no way" intelligence obtained under torture had been decisive in the manhunt.
Mr Rodriguez, who was in charge of the CIA's counter-terrorism centre from 2002 to 2005, when the two al-Qaida leaders were captured, was speaking for the first time since being cleared of allegations that he destroyed videos of al-Qaida suspects being interrogated.
Following bin Laden's death on Sunday, President Barack Obama said that he had been found after the CIA tracked down a trusted courier who lived with him in his compound in Pakistan.
Mr Rodriguez said: "Both KSM and al-Libi were held at CIA black sites and subjected to enhanced interrogation techniques. Al-Libi was not waterboarded, but his information on the courier was key.
"Information provided by KSM and al-Libi about bin Laden's courier was the lead information that eventually led to the location of the compound and the operation that led to his death."
He said al-Libi started giving information a week after he was subjected to enhanced interrogation techniques, including sleep deprivation.
One former senior intelligence official told Time: "Once KSM decided resistance was unwise, he then started spilling his guts to the agency and started providing lots of info, like the noms de guerre of couriers and explaining how al-Qaida worked."
Mr Rodriguez said: "It's a mistake to say this was about inflicting pain. These measures were about instilling a sense of hopelessness and that led them to compliance."
A White House spokesman said the key intelligence had not come from torture, adding: "It's not fair to the scores of people who did this work over many years to suggest that this is作者: tiffiant 時間: 2011-5-5 07:20
A Pakistani policeman keeps guard as women walk past the hideout house of slain Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad on May 5, 2011.作者: fy789 時間: 2011-5-5 08:10