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quoting ABC News
'''Waterboarding''' is a [[coercive interrogation]] technique which simulates drowning
that frightens a prisoner into talking.
In the technique, which dates back the Italian Inquisition,
a prisoner, who is bound and gagged, has water poured over him to make him think he is about to drown. [http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Investigation/story?id=1356870]
==Not the same as "the submarine"==
In Chile, under Pinochet, the security forces were also known to be using “the ‘submarine,’ a method that consists in submerging the person in baths full of water—sometimes mixed with excrement—until he cannot breathe,” according to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights report of 1985. (“Report on the Situation of Human Rights in Chile,” September 9, 1985.) [http://hrw.org/english/docs/2004/06/01/usint8632.htm]
that frightens a prisoner into talking.
In the technique, which dates back the Italian Inquisition,
a prisoner, who is bound and gagged, has water poured over him to make him think he is about to drown. [http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Investigation/story?id=1356870]
==Not the same as "the submarine"==
In Chile, under Pinochet, the security forces were also known to be using “the ‘submarine,’ a method that consists in submerging the person in baths full of water—sometimes mixed with excrement—until he cannot breathe,” according to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights report of 1985. (“Report on the Situation of Human Rights in Chile,” September 9, 1985.) [http://hrw.org/english/docs/2004/06/01/usint8632.htm]