Trump: torture - an effective tool

Torture against terrorists are an effective tool, said US President Donald Trump. In an interview with ABC Trump, he explained that high -ranking special services officers told him about the effectiveness of torture with imitation of drowning.

“I asked them: do they work torture? They answered: yes, absolutely,” Trump said.

He also promised to "rely on his team", including the Minister of Defense of James Mattis, as well as to Michael Pompeo, whom Trump put forward to the post of director of the CIA. “But I think that it works? Absolutely, I think it works,” the president said.

According to Trump, "you need to fight fire with fire." As an example, he cited the murders of the militants of the Islamic State of Christians. "IG militants do things that we have not heard of since the Middle Ages."

“I do not want people to be decapitated in the Middle East for the fact that they are Christians, Muslims or someone else,” Trump added.

The day before, it became known that the Trump administration prepared a draft order that allows the CIA to revive the practice of interrogations and the maintenance in “secret prisons” outside the United States suspects in terrorism. The order cancels the order of the previous president of Barack Obama, published in 2009. Then such a practice was prohibited after reports of torture by which suspects were subjected to.

The congress negatively reacted to such an initiative. Trump can sign “Any order that he likes,” said Senator John McCain. “But the law is the law. We do not intend to revive torture in the United States of America,” the senator emphasized.

In 2005, The Washington Post reported that in several countries there are secret CIA prisons, which contains captured members of Al-Qaida. The newspaper did not name the country, but later it became known that Poland and Romania were among them. Representatives of these countries stated at a meeting of the European Commission that there were no secret prisons on their territory. The Council of Europe announced the start of the investigation of messages about the secret prisons of the CIA.

In November 2005, the then US President George Bush recognized the fact of the existence of secret CIA prisons, however, however, the exact places of their location. He said that he decided to transfer several particularly dangerous terrorists to the Guantanamo base. Among the persons previously held in secret prisons, terrorists involved in the organization and implementation of high-profile terrorist attacks: attacks on September 11, attacking the Cole Airman in Yemen in 2000, as well as attacks on American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998.

In September 2006, Bush said that the CIA secret prisons made a priceless contribution to the fight against international terrorism and to ensure American security. According to the president, it was thanks to the information received over the past years during the interrogations of terrorists in these prisons that the American special services managed to prevent a number of terrorist attacks: an attack on the US Marine Corps in Djibuti, an attack on the American Consulate in the Pakistani city of Karachi, as well as theft of aircraft with subsequent crashes at the British Khitro airport.