US bans water torture technique
The U.S. Army will prohibit “water-boarding” - the controversial practice of submerging a prisoner’s head in water in an effort to make him talk - when it issues its new interrogation manual, the State Department’s legal adviser told the U.N. Committee Against Torture on Monday.
John B. Bellinger III said banning water-boarding wasn’t an admission that American interrogators had used the technique on detainees during the war on terrorism.
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