Definition of waterboarding
:an interrogation technique in which water is forced into a detainee's mouth and nose so as to induce the sensation of drowning
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That conflict, and the early counterinsurgency operations that followed, were marked by American massacres of civilians, torture (including the first American experiments in waterboarding), and other atrocities.
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The civil trial of two psychologists who helped design the CIA's post- 9/11 waterboarding program is delaying pretrial testimony by four key figures from the CIA's secret prison network in a war crimes case here.
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The psychologists later subjected two other prisoners — Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed — to waterboarding.
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The lawsuit contends Salim, from Tanzania, and Ben Soud, from Libya, underwent waterboarding, daily beatings and sleep deprivation while inside CIA facilities.
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Mitchell and Jessen were sent to the jail to carry out the techniques, including waterboarding.
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The report concluded that interrogation techniques such as waterboarding did not elicit useful intelligence from detainees.
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The techniques authorized by the Bush administration included waterboarding.
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In August 2003, he was subjected to 83 rounds of waterboarding, an interrogation practice that simulates drowning.
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2004
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