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'''Waterboarding''' is a method of torture or coercion
'''Waterboarding''' is a method of torture or coercion
dating back to the time of the Italian Inquisition in the 1500s. <ref>[http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Investigation/story?id=1356870]</ref>
dating back to the time of the Italian Inquisition in the 1500s. <ref>[http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Investigation/story?id=1356870]</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>
CIA sources describe the technique as used in [[coercive interrogation]] thus:
CIA sources describe the technique as used in [[coercive interrogation]] thus:
According to the same sources, CIA officers who submitted to the technique in training lasted an average of 14 seconds before "surrendering." In a radio interview in October 2006, US Vice President [[Dick Cheney]] confirmed that waterboarding had been used in the interrogation of senior [[Al-Qaeda]] suspects, but denied that the technique amounted to [[torture]]. <ref>[http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1026/dailyUpdate.html]</ref>
According to the same sources, CIA officers who submitted to the technique in training lasted an average of 14 seconds before "surrendering." In a radio interview in October 2006, US Vice President [[Dick Cheney]] confirmed that waterboarding had been used in the interrogation of senior [[Al-Qaeda]] suspects, but denied that the technique amounted to [[torture]]. <ref>[http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1026/dailyUpdate.html]</ref>
The practice was revived in the wake of [[9/11]] terrorism but quickly attracted harsh criticism one it came to light.
The practice was revived in the wake of [[9/11]] terrorism but quickly attracted harsh criticism one it came to light.