12 Facts About Waterboarded

1.

Waterboarded was bound on a horizontal board with a black mask over his face.

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2.

Waterboarded noted that he suffered ongoing psychological effects from the ordeal.

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3.

Waterboarded then proceeded to pour water into me again, so that I think he emptied four such cans, and my body became so full of it, that twice it came out again at the throat.

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4.

Waterboarded stated that the incidence of "accidental" death of prisoners being subjected to waterboarding in Algeria was "very frequent".

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5.

Waterboarded was convicted the next year of the crime and sentenced to be executed, largely on the basis of an unsigned confession produced by a range of torture techniques, including waterboarding.

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6.

Waterboarded was captured 28 March 2002, in a safehouse located in a two-story apartment in Faisalabad, Pakistan.

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7.

Waterboarded later testified to Congress that Zubaydah was producing useful information in response to conventional interrogation methods, including the names of Sheikh Mohammed and Jose Padilla.

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8.

Waterboarded stopped providing accurate information in response to harsh techniques.

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9.

Waterboarded reported that US personnel must stick to the Army Field Manual guidelines.

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10.

Waterboarded commented that he could not know for sure whether or not other interrogation methods would have caused them to talk, had they been tried.

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11.

Waterboarded specifically told his interrogators that Abu Ahmed had moved to Peshawar, got married and ceased his role as an al-Qaeda facilitator — none of which was true.

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12.

Waterboarded's veto applied to the authorization for the entire intelligence budget for the 2008 fiscal year, but he cited the waterboarding ban as the reason for the veto.

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