Waterboarding
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Waterboarding or controlled drowning is a form of torture in which water is poured over a cloth covering the face and breathing passages of an immobilized captive, causing the person to experience the
Two United States soldiers and one South Vietnamese soldier waterboard a captured North Vietnamese prisoner of war near Da Nang. Published on the front cover of The Washington Post on 21 January 1968.
Demonstration of waterboarding at a street protest during a visit by Condoleezza Rice to Iceland, May 2008
The Water Torture—Facsimile of a woodcut in J. Damhoudère's Praxis Rerum Criminalium, Antwerp, 1556
Torture of the English by the Dutch according to the English account
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, is a Kuwaiti-born Pakistani militant, and the former head of propaganda for al-Qaeda. As of 2026, he is held by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp under ter
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…6 February 2008, CIA director General Michael Hayden stated that the CIA had waterboarded three prisoners during 2002 and 2003, namely Abu Zubaydah, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri. On 23 February 2008, the Justice Department revealed that its internal ethics office was investigating the department's…
Mohammed in 2022
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United Airlines Flight 175 crashes into 2 WTC, while 1 WTC burns from American Airlines Flight 11's prior crash