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'''Waterboarding''' is one of the mildest forms of [[torture]] ever devised. It leaves no marks and does no permanent physical harm but is terrifying to the victim.

'''Waterboarding''' is a method of coercion that dates back to the time of the Italian Inquisition in the 1500s. A tightly bound prisoner has porous cloth placed over his mouth and nose. Water is poured over his face in such a manner as to convince the prisoner that he is drowning.  <ref>[http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Investigation/story?id=1356870]</ref> The practice was revived in the wake of [[9/11]] but quickly attracted harsh criticism once it came to light.  

 

The practice dates back to the time of the Italian Inquisition in the 1500s. A tightly bound prisoner has porous cloth placed over his mouth and nose. Water is poured over his face in such a manner as to convince the prisoner that he is drowning.  <ref>[http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Investigation/story?id=1356870]</ref> The practice was revived in the wake of [[9/11]] but quickly attracted harsh criticism once it came to light.  

In 1901, Major Edwin Glenn was court-martialed and sentenced to 10 years hard labour for waterboarding an insurgent in the Phillipines during the Spanish-American War. <ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1933315,00.html]</ref><ref>[http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Investigation/story?id=1356870]</ref> In 1947, Yukio Asano - a Japanese officer - was charged with war crimes and received 15 years hard labour for waterboarding a US civilian. <ref>[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/04/AR2006100402005.html]</ref> It was declared illegal by US generals in Vietnam <ref>[http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1026/dailyUpdate.html]</ref> and a US soldier was court-martialed after ''The Washington Post'' (21.1.1968) published a front page photograph of him supervising the waterboarding of a captured North Vietnamese soldier. <ref>[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/04/AR2006100402005.html]</ref> <ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1933315,00.html]</ref>   

In 1901, Major Edwin Glenn was court-martialed and sentenced to 10 years hard labour for waterboarding an insurgent in the Phillipines during the Spanish-American War. <ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1933315,00.html]</ref><ref>[http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Investigation/story?id=1356870]</ref> In 1947, Yukio Asano - a Japanese officer - was charged with war crimes and received 15 years hard labour for waterboarding a US civilian. <ref>[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/04/AR2006100402005.html]</ref> It was declared illegal by US generals in Vietnam <ref>[http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1026/dailyUpdate.html]</ref> and a US soldier was court-martialed after ''The Washington Post'' (21.1.1968) published a front page photograph of him supervising the waterboarding of a captured North Vietnamese soldier. <ref>[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/04/AR2006100402005.html]</ref> <ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1933315,00.html]</ref>