5 Things You May Not Know About Waterboarding
5 Things You May Not Know About Waterboarding
- President Theodore Roosevelt had General Jacob H. Smith court-martial for not preventing waterboarding on the island of Samar during the Spanish American War of 1898 in the Philippines
- Japanese soldiers were sentence to death after WWII for waterboarding Allied troops
- In 1957 the French government ban the book “The Question”, which described first-hand how French paratroopers waterboarded a French journalist by the name of Henri Alleg
- The first U.S. solider to be convicted for waterboarding an individual during a military conflict was Captain/Major Edwin F. Glenn. He was convicted of waterboarding Tobeniano Ealdama during the Spanish American War of 1898 in the Philippines
- It is believed that during the Spanish Inquisition, waterboarding (called toca) had profound religious significance to the Inquisitors. Toca is believed to symbolize Christian baptism during the Inquisition of “heretics”