From behind or to your rear side an individual or individuals will restrain your head back so that your mouth is facing the ceiling. Likely, at the same time, they will firmly place a cloth material over your face. Un-wet, one can breathe through cloth, much like having a handkerchief placed over your face.
But be warned, you can be waterboarded on a table, on the ground, upside down — in short, nearly any position. The tools of waterboarding are all around, and readily accessible.
Now that your captors have you secured, they will likely continue the interrogation. They may likely say that this is your final chance to divulge whatever information you may have or they think you may have.
You may decide to divulge that information in hopes of being let go or you may decide to make up information or to resist completely. However, to have reached this point likely means that you are moments away from being waterboarded. Everything is black, you cannot see a single thing. You feel your legs and arms tied and held down tight.
Your head is somewhere between and 90 degrees. You feel that cloth material covering your face. Next, you feel the sensation of water being poured over your face. Your heart is pounding, you are likely perspiring, which all means that you are likely taking fast and shallow breathes. In a matter of seconds, the feeling of terror has likely overcome your body as your captors pour water over your mouth and nose. Within moments, one feels the strong sensation to gag; they inhale fluids, bringing on the true sensation of drowning.
Or you may try to hold your breath as long as possible, only to find their now next breath awaiting. In other forms of waterboarding torture, one may have plastic material or cellophane placed over their nose and mouth with water being poured over these areas. In either case, the material is often lifted away from the face in a matter of seconds to allow the subject to take a few breathes before continuing with the process over and over. While to some reading this, it may sound rather easy to survive moment to moment.
However, I argue that there is a sharp contrast between reading how this process takes place to actually going through it yourself in an exercise to then actually being a victim of this act.
He stated that on his first exposure, he lasted only a few seconds. In an exercise, you know you escape. But in real-world situations, escape is rarely possible. Waterboarding torture has different effects on different people. Two of the most famous accounts, discussed publicly, involve two known terrorists: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Abu Zubaydah.
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The on-site judicial investigation Upon arrival of the emergency team, the body was lying naked in the bathtub. Full size image. Discussion To the best of our knowledge, waterboarding has never been used to commit suicides or homicides, but only for torturing prisoners. References 1. Torture —24 PubMed Google Scholar 4. Cerebrum —16 Google Scholar 5. Kessinger Publishing, LLC 9. University of Pennsylvania Press The Guardian, London Google Scholar Acknowledgements We would like to thank the Scientific Police of Milan, for supporting the preparation of this article.
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I didn't allow anybody else to try it on me. I know I only got the barest taste of what it's about since I was in control, and not restrained and controlling the flow of water. I'll put it this way. If I had the choice of being waterboarded by a third party or having my fingers smashed one at a time by a sledgehammer, I'd take the fingers, no question.
It's horrible, terrible, inhuman torture. I can hardly imagine worse. I'd prefer permanent damage and disability to experiencing it again. I'd give up anything, say anything, do anything.
It's torture. Terrible terrible torture. To experience it and understand it and then do it to another human being is to leave the realm of sanity and humanity forever.
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