Poll: Do you think this guy that the CIA tortured really did all these things he confessed to?

[NNN0LHI]

Now keep in mind when he was interrogated about the courier who actually led to bin Laden he lied about that. He lied about the bin Laden courier while the CIA was using the same torture techniques they used to get this list.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalid_Sheikh_Mohammed

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

List of confessions

The February 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York City
The September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the United States Capitol (both in Washington, D.C.) using four hijacked commercial airliners.
A failed "shoe bomber" operation
The October 2002 attack in Kuwait
The Paddy's Pub nightclub bombing in Bali, Indonesia
A plan for a "second wave" of attacks on major U.S. landmarks after the 9/11 attacks, including the Library Tower in Los Angeles, the Willis Tower (formerly Sears Tower) in Chicago, the Plaza Bank Building in Seattle and the Empire State Building in New York City
Plots to attack oil tankers and U.S. naval ships in the Straits of Hormuz, the Straits of Gibraltar and in Singapore
A plan to blow up the Panama Canal
Plans to assassinate Jimmy Carter
A plot to blow up suspension bridges in New York City
A plan to destroy the Sears Tower in Chicago with burning fuel trucks
Plans to "destroy" London Heathrow Airport, Canary Wharf and Big Ben in London
A planned attack on "many" nightclubs in Thailand
A plot targeting the New York Stock Exchange and other U.S. financial targets
A plan to destroy buildings in Eilat, Israel
Plans to destroy U.S. embassies in Indonesia, Australia and Japan in 2002.
Plots to destroy Israeli embassies in India, Azerbaijan, the Philippines and Australia
Surveying and financing an attack on an Israeli El-Al flight from Bangkok
Sending several "mujahideen" into Israel to survey "strategic targets" with the intention of attacking them
The November 2002 suicide bombing of a hotel in Mombasa, Kenya
The failed attempt to shoot down an Israeli passenger jet leaving Mombasa airport in Kenya
Plans to attack U.S. targets in South Korea
Providing financial support for a plan to attack U.S., British and Jewish targets in Turkey
Surveillance of U.S. nuclear power plants in order to attack them
A plot to attack NATO's headquarters in Europe
Planning and surveillance in a 1995 plan (the "Bojinka Operation&quot to bomb 12 American passenger jets
The planned assassination attempt against then-U.S. President Bill Clinton during a mid-1990s trip to the Philippines
"Shared responsibility" for a plot to kill Pope John Paul II
Plans to assassinate Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf
An attempt to attack a U.S. oil company in Sumatra, Indonesia, "owned by the Jewish former [U.S.] Secretary of State Henry Kissinger"
The beheading of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl

Source: BBC

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[Kalidurga]

1. I think he is padding his resume quite a bit...

even if he isn't any information obtained by torture is suspect. If it was a criminal case rather than a terrorist case, I believe the confession would be thrown out. Torture is stupid, it doesn't work. That being said, he probably did something and we should find out what if that is at all possible after the well has been poisoned. My theory is he padded his resume for pride as much as to make the torture stop.

[teddy51]

2. It's been stated by many experts that torture does not work, the victim will tell you what you

want to hear and nothing more.

[Cirque du So-What]

3. That list is not complete

In addition to claiming responsibility for every major terror plot over the past dozen years, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed confessed to being the one who...

* threw the overalls in Mrs. Murphy's chowder

* put the bomp in the bomp bah bomp bah bomp (he may have also put the ram in the rama lama ding dong)

* let the dogs out

* shot the sheriff (but he did not shoot the deputy)

* stole Austin Powers' mojo

* put the lime in the coconut

* wrote the Book of Love

[Aerows]

6. He DEFINITELY

Put the lime in the coconut. My friend told me, after he drank it all up.

[lordsummerisle]

7. lol! n/t

[Dawson Leery]

9. LOL!

[countryjake]

15. You forgot who killed Cock Robin!

ROTF!

rama lama ding dong! Bwahahahaha!

[Cirque du So-What]

20. He was merely a waterboarding away

from admitting that one.

[arcane1]

4. If I were being tortured, I'd confess to those things too n/t

[NNN0LHI]

5. Wouldn't even need to get to the torture part for me

Just show me a bucket of water and a towel and I bet I could come up with a list twice that long in a jiffy.

Don

[countryjake]

16. You & me, both!

I couldn't even imagine being in a CIA hotseat, but I think I'd get real agreeable, mighty quick. And if they ever shipped me off to one of those "black sites", I haven't a doubt that I'd be rendered a yammering blabbermouth before they even got me off the plane!

Ask any kid that's been physically abused, most know exactly when they should nod "yes" and when they should not. Anything to stop the hurt.

[saras]

8. I refuse, on principle, to believe or accept information gained under torture. That's collaboration

The court used to call it the "fruits of the poisonous tree" doctrine, which held that authorities may not profit from information gathered illegally, no matter what it cost to information legally gathered. The purpose was to EFFECTIVELY prohibit illegal behavior by making it unprofitable even if it was not prosecuted.

[coalition_unwilling]

10. Channeling my inner Nixon: "When the U.S. does it, it's

not illegal."

(in case it's needed)

[saras]

13. My inner Nixon is 100% Mojo

[madokie]

11. You can not act on evidence obtained by torture

or I should say sane people won't believe information obtained by torture as anything except to stop the torture. Not many people will not talk when tortured and the ones who do will say anything they think you want to know.

[sarisataka]

12. he very well could have

been "involved" in all of these, meaning he was aware of them or in a group when they were discussed. Using torture to get the info means that you cannot believe anything he said.

If the cost of not using torture is we face another major terrorist attack, I think it is one we should pay.

[eridani]

14. You forgot the Lindbergh kidnapping

--also possible involvement in the slayings of Jon Benet Ramsey and Albus Dumbledore. He might also have been involved in putting the Ram in the Ramalamadingdong. Not to mention writing The Book of Love.

[countryjake]

17. And poor Chandra Levy, too...

they have never solved that one, have they?

This guy obviously has the criminal mind of the millennium!

[YellowRubberDuckie]

19. They did in fact.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/12/us/12levy.html

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

18. And Jack the Ripper

[HopeHoops]

21. Hell, if I was being tortured I'd confess to fucking Karl Rove.

For the record, I have done no such thing.