Eliza Manningham-Buller who is the retired head of MI5 (British Intelligence) says that the United States was not forthcoming with the truth about how it treated some of the terror detainees which we captured from time to time.
The issue revolves mainly around al-Qaeda mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammad and the fact that he was waterboarded 160 times to get information.
Now this is a two sided issue with me. On the one hand the information that we got out of Mr Mohammed undoubtedly saved many American and British lives. The life of one American is far more valuable than the comfort of a terrorist in my opinion. It would not have bothered me if he had been waterboarded 1,000 times. The main thing that our government must do is to protect innocents from terror attack.
The problem is how do you know before hand that the person that you plan on torturing is a terrorist and not an innocent civilian instead of a criminal. Thats the real kicker.
I think that part of the revelation of this mistreatment by Buller is to keep some of the heat directed elsewhere and not at home. I can’t believe that this knowledge was very much of a surprise to MI5 because it wasn’t much of a surprise to me. http://www.militaryringexpress.com/products
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