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Originally Posted by The Geordie Jesus

It's also important to note that not everyone who was treated this way was a tried and tested, foaming at the mouth jihadist intent on beheading innocents.

"26 of the 119 were wrongfully held and later judged nothing to do with terrorism"

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...te-report.html

Among the people who were wrongly held was Nazar Ali, "an 'intellectually challenged' individual whose taped crying was used as leverage against his family member".



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...s-prisons.html

Woop yeah, get dem terrorists!!!!!!

I understand any critic of the interrogation techniques in question holding up the fact that out of 119 'suspected' terrorists 26 were 'deemed' to be innocent, but before they start wearing such a fact as some kind of 'Badge of Honour', perhaps we should recognise the very telling fact that this means that of the 119 'suspected' terrorists interrogated 93 were actual terrorists.

So, yes, 26 'innocent' suspects are an example of unfortunate and regrettable 'collateral damage', but these 'innocents' still live and breathe to tell their tales -- unlike all the poor innocent victims of the Islamic Fundamentalist butchers who are the raison d'etre for these 'interrogations' in the first place.

26 'innocent victims will recover, be compensated, live on, and who knows how many thousands or tens of thousands of innocent victims will also continue to 'live on', because of vital information 'obtained' from these 93 actual terrorists about their planned future atrocities?

The end justifies the means.