Waterboarding saved UK lives - Bush
The Press Association: Waterboarding saved UK lives - Bush : "George Bush has claimed that information obtained from terrorist suspects through 'waterboarding' prevented terrorist attacks on London, saving British lives. In his memoirs, serialised in The Times, he said the use of the controversial interrogation technique - which simulates drowning - had helped to break up plots to attack Heathrow Airport and Canary Wharf. In an interview with the newspaper, he confirmed he had authorised the use of waterboarding to extract information from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the al Qaida mastermind behind the 9/11 attack, telling the paper: 'Damn right.' Mr Bush said: 'Three people were waterboarded and I believe that decision saved lives.' In the book, Decision Points, he writes: 'Their interrogations helped break up plots to attack American diplomatic facilities abroad, Heathrow Airport and Canary Wharf in London, and multiple targets in the United States.' T...