Khalid Sheikh Mohammed - forced to confess in the comfy chair.

**I was reading about the confession of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the fact that after a mere couple of minutes of getting a wash he decided to confess all.

When Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was strapped down to the water-board, he felt humiliated — not by the treatment but by the fact that a woman, a red-headed CIA supervisor, was allowed to witness the spectacle, a former intelligence officer told ABC News.

The al Qaeda mastermind, known as KSM, stubbornly held out for about two minutes — far longer than any of the other “high-value” terror targets who were subjected to the technique, the harshest from a list of six techniques approved for use by the CIA and Bush administration lawyers, sources said.

Then KSM started talking, in idiomatic English he learned as a high school foreign exchange student and polished at a North Carolina college in the 1980s, sources said.

“It was an extraordinary amount of time for him to hold out,” one former CIA officer told ABCNEWS.com. “A red-headed female supervisor was in the room when he was being water-boarded. It was humiliating to him. So he held out.”

“Then he started talking, and he never stopped,” this former officer said. KSM was never water-boarded again, and in hours and hours of conversation with his interrogators, often over a cup of tea, he poured out his soul and the murderous deeds he committed.

“He was sitting across the table from his interrogator, and he just blurted out, ‘I killed Daniel Pearl. I killed him Hahal (slit his throat in a ritual fashion).’ There was no water-boarding, no belly slapping; just two guys sitting across the table having a cup of tea.”

Water-boarding has been denounced as “torture” by human rights groups and many U.S. officials, including Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who likened it to a mock execution.

But what if that one episode of water-boarding KSM had not occurred? It is a question at the center of the debate over the harshest technique in the CIA’s repertoire that has raged for three years now, a time frame, intelligence officials note, in which the technique has not been used.

So a mere couple of minutes and our brave jihadist spills the beans, whilst sat down with a cup of tea. Reminds me of the Monty Python - The Spanish Inquisition.

Ximinez [with a cruel leer]: Now -- you will stay in the Comfy Chair until lunch time, with only a cup of coffee at eleven. [aside, to Biggles] Is that really all it is?

Who knows maybe they prodded him with a soft cushion as well? What a pussy. A case of jihad denied and no 72 goats for him in the afterlife.
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