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"It's a torture form" The name is a kind of romantic, because waterboarding remembers water games or also the laundress’s board, that which the campaign women used to make the laundry in the village stream.

But with the terrorism war the use of waterboarding is became synonym of a cruel interrogation: they lash to a board, they let him wear a hood and for growing the fear and the sensation of powerlessness, they pour water to the face, the nostrils and in the mouth.

The victim believes to go drown, he risks really to drown and he gives up.

They say that also the most brutal men of Al Qaeda have spoken after less than 20 minutes of “service”.

Last year Christopher Hitchens, a journalist, writer and a British polemist has been moved in the USA, in an article he tried to distinguish the techniques of “extreme interrogation” to finding imminent attacks and “open torture”.