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CIA 'tortured al-Qaeda suspects close to the point of death by drowning them in water-filled baths'
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The Telegraph (One of the UK's leading newspapers), September 7, 2014
Posted: September 15th, 2014
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/al-qaeda/11080450/...

The CIA brought top al-Qaeda suspects close to the point of death by drowning them in water-filled baths during interrogation sessions in the years that followed the September 11 attacks, a security source has told The Telegraph. The description of the torture meted out to at least two leading al-Qaeda suspects, including the alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, far exceeds the conventional understanding of waterboarding, or simulated drowning so far admitted by the CIA. They werent just pouring water over their heads or over a cloth, said the source who has first-hand knowledge of the period. They were holding them under water until the point of death, with a doctor present to make sure they did not go too far. This was real torture. The account of extreme CIA interrogation comes as the US Senate prepares to publish a declassified version of its so-called Torture Report a 3,600-page report document based on a review of several million classified CIA documents. Publication of the report is currently being held up by a dispute over how much of the 480-page public summary should remain classified, but it is expected to be published within weeks. A second source who is familiar with the Senate report told The Telegraph that it contained several unflinching accounts of some CIA interrogations which the source predicted would deeply shock the general public.

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