What Is Waterboarding?Its Details

When the CIA asked President George W. If Bush had the authority to submarine suspected Al Qaeda, Khalid Sheik Mohammed in 2003, President Bush did not hesitate. "Damn right!" The president now says his response was reportedly on his memoirs will be released next week.
Echoing comments he made in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in June, President Bush said that "I'd do it to save lives."
However, many senior interrogators who have questioned high-level Al Qaeda does not believe that waterboarding Mohammed was an operational success.
"The purpose of interrogation is the way it works," Matthew Alexander, an interrogator of the U.S. Air Force who led the effort to find al-Zarqawi, the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, told me recently. "You get the information that allows you to cut the head of the snake."
Alexander wrote a book about his experience chasing al-Zarqawi, former leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq who is best known for making films of his victims as he cut off his head. Alexander's book, How to break a terrorist, is to show the effectiveness of coercive interrogation methods may not be. The book begins with Alexander and a partner to interview a child of Al Qaeda. Within months, Alexander and his team are able to convince an agent of Al Qaeda after another that provides key information until the connection string out of his way to Al Zarqawi.
"Anything can work," said Alexander. Notes that one of its best sources in Iraq was a 12-year-old who liked to boast that his father used to take a planning meeting of Al Qaeda. Alexander and his team would question its importance. "In return he told us that of all the places he had been and people he had met with his father," said Alexander.
The trick is finding the best possible technique (or combination of techniques), interrogators say that they can learn as much as possible from one source.
"I do not know exactly where the bomb," said Joe Navarro, a former FBI special agent who worked on terrorism cases in South America, Central America, Europe and the Middle East. "I want to know who built the bomb? Who paid for the pump? Who decides where to put it? Why do not I want to know everything that a man knows it."
Challenging the credibility of someone creates the possibility that he will tell everything he knows. "Submarine" says a suspect in the best case, you only say what I need to make the pain stop.