Reliable intelligence
The Pentagon has announced that an alleged senior al-Qaida member who has been held in Guantanamo has “confessed” to planning the September 11 attacks on the USA:
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged number three in al-Qaida, confessed to planning the attacks on New York and Washington on September 11 2001, in front of the secret military tribunals being held for the top detainees in Guantánamo, the Pentagon said last night.
However:
He is understood to have gone through torture, including “waterboarding” when the suspect being interrogated is strapped to a board and placed underwater. According to the New York Times, the use of harsh techniques was approved in his case by the justice department and the CIA.
So that makes the confession as likely to be true as the White House’s statements on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, that were made before the invasion in 2003, doesn’t it?