Cheney, Rumsfeld Pushed for Torture to Find Non-Existent Saddam-9/11 Link
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According to former intelligence and military officials, former Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld pushed interrogators to use torture to prove once and for all that a link did exist between al Qaeda and the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq, prior to the US invasion in 2003. Cheney and Rumsfeld advocated the use of sleep deprivation, isolation and stress positions and waterboarding on suspected terrorists for most of 2002 and into 2003 in order to corroborate the claims of former Iraqi exile leader Ahmed Chalabi and others that Saddam was working with Osama bin Laden’s terrorist network. It was during this period that CIA interrogators waterboarded two alleged top al Qaeda detainees repeatedly—Abu Zubaydah at least 83 times in August 2002 and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed 183 times in March 2003.
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