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Bookmark or Share- Waterboarding | Definition, History, & Facts | BritannicaWaterboarding, method of torture in which water is poured into the nose and mouth of a victim who lies on his back on an inclined platform, with his feet above his head. It produces extreme physical suffering and an uncontrollable feeling of panic and terror, usually within seconds.
- ‘I didn’t know who I was any more’: how CIA torture pushed me to the ...In one month alone, August 2002, he was put through the barbaric water torture known as waterboarding 83 times. In his account he referred to the method, a form of controlled drowning, as the...
- How the CIA tortured its detainees | CIA torture report | The GuardianWaterboarding, confinement, sleep deprivation – Oliver Laughland takes a look at some of the ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’ used by the agency. First published in December 2014. CIA’s brutal...
- What is waterboarding, and who believes it works?In modern times, waterboarding is so named for the board, angled downward at the head, to which a subject is strapped before interrogation. When water is poured over the face, it creates the...
- Waterboarding: A Tortured History : NPRWaterboarding actually refers to two different interrogation techniques. One involves pumping water directly into the stomach. "This creates intense pain. It feels like your organs are on fire,"...
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