Creative interrogation techniques payoff

Check out this article from the American Forces Press Service. It's a nice summary of this whole Gitmo "torture" story. From General Craddock's testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee:

By the fall of 2002 Kahtani had successfully resisted all interrogation techniques for eight months, so interrogators at Guantanamo requested, and received, permission to use more aggressive techniques. Craddock said officials were particularly interested in information about any possible attacks on the one-year anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. The application of these more aggressive techniques between November 2002 and January 2003 "led to breaking Kahtani's resistance and to solid intelligence gains," Craddock said.

And I learned something new. Kahtani admitted to being the 20th hijacker. I thought he was still the "suspected" 20th hijacker. That bit of information came from the Senate hearing, but, oddly enough, the only clip of the hearings I saw on TV was the bit about how the techniques were "abusive". (via Betsy's Page)