Accused complained that interrogators tortured lies out of him

Accused al Qaeda mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed complained that interrogators tortured lies out of him, though he proudly took credit for more than two dozen other terror plots, according to newly released sections of government transcripts. ''I make up stories,'' Mohammed said at one point in his 2007 hearing at Guantánamo Bay. In broken English, he described an interrogation in which he was asked the location of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. ''Where is he? I don't know,'' Mohammed said. 'Then he torture me. Then I said, 'Yes, he is in this area or this is al Qaeda which I don't know him.' I said no, they torture me.'' Yet at the same military tribunal hearing, Mohammed ticked off a list of 29 terror plots in which he took part. The transcripts were released as part of a lawsuit in which the American Civil Liberties Union is seeking documents and details of the government's terror detainee programs. Previous accounts of the military tribunal hearings had been made public, but the Obama administration went back and reviewed the still-secret sections and determined that more portions could be released. Most of the new material centers on the detainees' claims of abuse during interrogations while being held overseas in CIA custody. source: www.miamiherald.com...

America tortures people, it's official and that is weak. I thought the US was above that sort of stuff, and shame on the people in charge. Comparisons to the worst regimes in history can be made, history will judge harshly on those involved. People have different opinions and people can be hypocrites, some believe torture is never justified, others think torture should be allowed in certain circumstances, still others think torture is great and happily kick a cat to death, and there is a range of opinion in between. But does not basic human nature state that when tortured people say what they think will get the torture to stop.