17 Facts About Waterboarding

Waterboarding is a form of torture in which water is poured over a cloth covering the face and breathing passages of an immobilized captive, causing the person to experience the sensation of drowning.

Waterboarding has been used in diverse places and at various points in history, including the Spanish and Flemish Inquisitions, by the United States military during the Philippine–American War, by Japanese and German officials during World War II, by the French in the Algerian War, by the U S during the Vietnam War, by the Pinochet regime in Chile, by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, by British security forces during the Troubles, and by South African police during the Apartheid era.

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

Waterboarding is considered to be torture by a wide range of authorities, including legal experts, politicians, war veterans, intelligence officials, military judges, and human rights organizations.

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

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Waterboarding 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.

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

Waterboarding was designated as illegal by U S generals in the Vietnam War.

Waterboarding 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.

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

Waterboarding 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.

Waterboarding stopped providing accurate information in response to harsh techniques.

Waterboarding reported that U S personnel must stick to the Army Field Manual guidelines.

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

Waterboarding 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.

Waterboarding is reported to be among the forms of torture used as part of the indoctrination process at the Xinjiang re-education camps.

Waterboarding'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.