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  • SOURCE: Guardian (UK)
    12-21-09

    British Army 'waterboarded' suspects in 70s

    Evidence that the British army subjected prisoners in Northern Ireland to waterboarding during interrogations in the 1970s is emerging after one of the alleged victims launched an appeal against his conviction for murder.

  • SOURCE: Japan Focus
    1-24-09

    Kinue Tokudome: Waterboarding ... The Meaning for Japan

    "If you look at the history of the use of that technique used by the Khmer Rouge, used in the inquisition, used by the Japanese and prosecuted by us as war crimes, we prosecuted our own soldiers in Vietnam, I agree with you, Mr. Chairman, waterboarding is torture." 

  • SOURCE: Sightings, the newsletter of the Martin Marty Center at the University of Chicago Divinity School.
    11-29-07

    William Schweiker: Baptism by Torture (The roots of waterboarding)

    Religious practices have often been tied to violence and torture, but this connection is often hidden within public discourse. That is the situation now in the United States with the debate about waterboarding, the religious meanings of which have yet to be articulated and explored.

  • U.S. Water Boarding, 1899 Style

    by William Loren Katz

    Some high U.S. officials claim not be aware of it, and Judge Michael Mukasey, the President's choice for attorney general, prefers to equivocate, but water boarding has long been a form of torture that causes excruciating pain.

  • SOURCE: NPR
    11-3-07

    Waterboarding: A Tortured History

    The surprisingly contentious confirmation process of Michael Mukasey, President Bush's pick for attorney general, has come down to one issue: waterboarding. Mukasey has called waterboarding personally "repugnant," but said he did not know enough about how it has been used to define it as torture.