Tuesday, May 09, 2006

U.S. to prohibit "water-boarding"

GENEVA — The U.S. Army will prohibit "water-boarding" — the controversial practice of submerging a prisoner's head in water in an effort to make him talk — when it issues its new interrogation manual, the State Department's legal adviser told the U.N. Committee Against Torture on Monday.

John Bellinger said banning water-boarding wasn't an admission that U.S. interrogators had used the technique on detainees during anti-terrorism efforts.

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