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== Controversy ==
== Controversy ==
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Opponents of US policy on [[coercive interrogation]] of suspected terrorists and "[[unlawful combatant]]s" captured in [[Afghanistan]] and in the [[Gulf War]], want waterboardnig to be classified legally as "torture"
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Opponents of the US use of the technique call it "torture" and want official definitons of [[torture]] changed so as to outlaw the technique. Top US officials say the technique is not "torture" and rebuffed attempts to reclassify or ban it.
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so that it would automatically be made illegal under US law.
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Top US officials say the technique, as performed by the CIA as an interrogation technique is not "torture" and rebuffed attempts to reclassify or ban it.