Despite Reports, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Was Not Waterboarded 183 Times

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The number of times Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded was the focus of major media attention -- and highly misleading.

By Joseph Abrams

FOXNews.com

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

The New York Times reported last week that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, was waterboarded 183 times in one month by CIA interrogators. The "183 times" was widely circulated by news outlets throughout the world.

It was shocking. And it was highly misleading. The number is a vast inflation, according to information from a U.S. official and the testimony of the terrorists themselves...

...The Times and dozens of other outlets wrote that the CIA also waterboarded senior Al Qaeda member Abu Zubaydah 83 times, but Zubayda himself, a close associate of Usama bin Laden, told the Red Cross he was waterboarded no more than 10 times...

Seems that the NY Times, once again, can't get its facts correct. The paper that was once "the nations paper of record" has become nothing more than cheap bird cage liner. Only libs who want to APPEAR intellectual and thoughtful and be part of the "in crowd" subscribe to this rag. I doubt if even they really read much if any of the crap in it. The Old Grey Lady will soon be The Dead Grey Lady.

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