Panetta admits use of torture in hunt for Osama
5 Feb 2013 5:39 AM IST
US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has admitted that torture and enhanced interrogation techniques were used to ‘put together the puzzle’ that led to the killing of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. Panetta made the candid admission, becoming the highest-ranking Obama administration official to do so, while responding to a question on Kathyrn Bigelow's Oscar-nominated film ‘Zero Dark Thirty’, the New York Post reported.
The film depicts prisoners being waterboarded by the US in an effort to find out where bin Laden's is hiding.
‘The movie seems to say, to indicate that enhanced interrogation techniques or torture was used to get information to get Bin Laden. Is that true?’, Panetta, outgoing US Defence Secretary, was asked on a NBC show.
The film depicts prisoners being waterboarded by the US in an effort to find out where bin Laden's is hiding.
‘The movie seems to say, to indicate that enhanced interrogation techniques or torture was used to get information to get Bin Laden. Is that true?’, Panetta, outgoing US Defence Secretary, was asked on a NBC show.
Next Story
