On air: Is torture ever justified?

If you’ve ever wondered what waterboarding looks like then here’s ex-Navy SEAL Kaj Larsen getting some treatement. We hope to be speaking to Kaj on the show tonight . . .

. . .  He’s admitted to being the mastermind of the September 11th attacks. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his four co-defendants say they want to plead guilty at a pre-trial hearing at Guantanamo Bay, where they are being held. If you read the western press there is little coverage of the alleged tortured he endured during his time there, however elsewhere in the world the focus is very much on torture.

Talking points: KSM comes clean in the courtroom

This is what appears to have transpired at Guantanamo Bay yesterday when 5 suspects of the 911 attacks asked to be allowed to plead guilty before court proceedings had even begun. What do you make of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s confession?