Or, in the use of plastic barrier, as you will read, one can suffocate. However, the purpose of waterboarding is not to kill the subject; if that was their sole purpose, there are many simpler ways to accomplish that goal, and with less people needed in supporting roles.
As a military intelligence officer myself who served in Iraq with Joint Special Operation Forces, I am very much aware of waterboarding. I know of many soldiers who have been waterboarded, intentionally, either for training, or by others simply out of curiosity. Surviving anything means you have likely prepared yourself for the event; waterboarding survival is no different.
The first part of survival is understanding the threat and, in this case, a thorough understanding of what takes place. So what is waterboarding? First, you will likely be blindfolded and unaware of your surroundings. Second, you will likely find yourself tied to a chair or a sitting device, restrained from moving the body.
On both sides you will likely have individuals ensuring your chair table, etc. From behind or to your rear side an individual or individuals will restrain your head back so that your mouth is facing the ceiling.
Likely, at the same time, they will firmly place a cloth material over your face. Un-wet, one can breathe through cloth, much like having a handkerchief placed over your face.
But be warned, you can be waterboarded on a table, on the ground, upside down — in short, nearly any position. The tools of waterboarding are all around, and readily accessible. Now that your captors have you secured, they will likely continue the interrogation.
They may likely say that this is your final chance to divulge whatever information you may have or they think you may have. You may decide to divulge that information in hopes of being let go or you may decide to make up information or to resist completely. However, to have reached this point likely means that you are moments away from being waterboarded.
Everything is black, you cannot see a single thing. You feel your legs and arms tied and held down tight. Your head is somewhere between and 90 degrees. You feel that cloth material covering your face. Next, you feel the sensation of water being poured over your face. Your heart is pounding, you are likely perspiring, which all means that you are likely taking fast and shallow breathes. In a matter of seconds, the feeling of terror has likely overcome your body as your captors pour water over your mouth and nose.
Within moments, one feels the strong sensation to gag; they inhale fluids, bringing on the true sensation of drowning. When done right it is controlled death. Its lack of physical scarring allows the victim to recover and be threaten[ed] with its use again and again. It then pushes down into the trachea and starts to process a respiratory degradation. It is an overwhelming experience that induces horror, triggers a frantic survival instinct.
As the event unfolded, I was fully conscious of what was happening: I was being tortured. Sampson volunteered to be waterboarded in as part of a BBC documentary. Sampson said yes. He was waterboarded for 18 seconds. The water starts filling up my nasal cavity, turning me into an inverted water vessel. Going through my nasal cavity, it started to hit my throat. Are you a member of al Qaeda? Do you wear a tutu in the morning? I spit up a big chunk of water, I had it all in my sinuses, my whole nasal cavity filled out, my throat filled up, it was just beginning to hit my esophagus going upward.
I had zero cognitive relationship to what they were asking as it was occurring. A wet bath towel was placed over my face covering my mouth, nose and eyes and the water flowed continually.
The first sensation is that of suffocation followed shortly thereafter by being unable to expel water that had saturated the towel and gotten ingested or inhaled. We were eventually told that this sensation was that of drowning. And, this is probably correct. In any event, my ears began to ring and lights flashed in behind my unseeing eyes and my struggles abated. However, just before I lost consciousness, the He then ordered that I be taken off the board. When the restraints were removed, I rolled off the board and onto my hands and knees.
James Mitchell testified at a pretrial hearing here in the case against Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the confessed mastermind of the Sept. Mohammed and four other defendants are charged with nearly 3, murders. Waterboarding, a simulated drowning, was one of them. To employ the method, a prisoner would be strapped to a board placed on a modified gurney, tipped so that his head was near the ground.
Under President George W. Bush, the Justice Department approved and issued guidelines for how to execute the method. The water pour could last up to 20 seconds, then be paused, then another 20 seconds, paused, then 40 seconds. The subject feels as though he is drowning.
Typically, the subject spasms, expels water and snot, , sometimes vomit, squirms and flops on the gurney as if having a seizure. The practice is nearly universally condemned as torture. Mitchell used the technique on at least three men, including Mohammed. This week, he testified that he would do it again if he believed he had to, but also said that the results repulsed him. He was waterboarded 83 times over a handful of sessions in August , according to an investigation by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
After Abu Zubaydah started cooperating with interrogators at a secret prison in Thailand in , Mitchell and Jessen sought to stop using the waterboard.
Officers at CIA headquarters in Virginia accused the two of having lost their nerve. The psychologists performed what Mitchell said was a dialed-back version of the technique. His description of himself as playing a role to limit the use of the program is confounding, especially because he went on to waterboard two more men, including Mohammed, who was waterboarded times.
He testified that waterboarding was a step in a process; he urged the end of it for Abu Zubaydah because it had served its purpose.
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