US official: waterboarding is illegal
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Senior justice department official has reversed his position on simulated drowning during interrogation
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The US government has obtained a new video tape purportedly showing Osama Bin Laden, officials say.
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A June 25 report is among dozens of documents made public Tuesday that allege brutal and sometimes illegal interrogation methods employed in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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A British detainee held at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba has made fresh allegations about a regime of torture and humiliation inflicted on detainees by their US captors
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The top U.S. law enforcement official faces a clash on Wednesday with Senate Democrats after he rejected demands to rule on the legality of an interrogation technique known as waterboarding
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The US Justice Department revised a policy statement on torture, calling it ``abhorrent&#39;&#39; and illegal and defining it more broadly than an August 2002 memorandum that the Bush administration
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The Bush administration has told a federal judge that its 2005 destruction of CIA interrogation videotapes did not violate a court order because the captives in question were being kept in secret prisons at the time, not at the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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Washington, Dec 8 : An official US memo has described how American special operations task force abused prisoners in Iraq and then threatened the Defence Intelligence Agency agents, who witnessed the mistreatment, from reporting it.
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The Bush administration allowed CIA interrogators to use tactics that were "quite distressing, uncomfortable, even frightening," as long as they did not cause enough severe and lasting pain to constitute illegal torture, a senior Justice Department official said last week.
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BAGHDAD - The United States disputed a senior Iraqi official&#39;s statement yesterday that a decision had been made to free a high-profile Iraqi woman prisoner.
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WASHINGTON -- A senior Justice Department official says laws and other limits enacted since three terrorism suspects were waterboarded have eliminated the technique from what is now legally allowed.
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Attorney General Michael Mukasey has ordered federal prosecutors to investigate the destruction of CIA videotapes showing agents interrogating terrorism suspects. The tapes reportedly showed rough interrogation techniques of two alleged al Qaeda members, including the use of "waterboarding."
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U.S. intelligence chief Mike McConnell said in a magazine interview that waterboarding would be torture if it was used against him personally, but stopped short of condemning the controversial interrogation technique.
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The United States is violating  international law by holding prisoners in its war on terror  incommunicado and in secret hiding places, Human Rights Watch  said in a report to be published on Tuesday calling for an end  to such practices.
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The Democratic-led House of Representatives voted on Thursday to outlaw harsh interrogation methods, such as simulated drowning, that the CIA has used against suspected terrorists.
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An Iranian official slammed what he called "ridiculous and false claims" from U.S. officials about the "arrest of a foreign citizen in Iraq and his relation with Iran."
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The United Nations demanded Belarus free an American arrested while working on a United Nations project in the ex-Soviet republic, but the country's spy service on Thursday insisted the man was not protected by diplomatic immunity.