CIA Used Mock Executions to Torture Detainees
• Washington PostThe tactics -- which one official described as a threatened
execution -- were used on Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, according to the
CIA's inspector general's report on the agency's interrogation program.
Nashiri, who was captured in November 2002 and held for four years in
one of the CIA's "black site" prisons, ultimately became one of three
al-Qaeda chieftains subjected to a form of simulated drowning known as
waterboarding.
