Al-Qaeda memebers that have been arrested by the U.S government were mostly tortured so as to gather information about their organisation and furture attacks. These has gave rise to the people debating on whether it is the right way that a liberal and civilised conutry to be carrying out these investigation techniques just to get information as there may be many other ways to do too.
Torutring,might be one of the worst methods of gathering information as the gathered data from these terrorists are not worth the high price of going against the jailers' self-conscience of doing harm to another fellow human being which I believe is also mentally torturing to them too listening to the detainees' screams of pain,whimpers and voices of defiance to them. The results produced by the FBI who does not adopt methods of torturing but interrogated the al-Qaeda members with a tough yet very human face has confused them totally as they have expected theinterrogators to dismember them were much more useful than what the CIA can produce in their haste to force the terrorists to speak up.Furthermore,most of the data gathered were common knowledge and were not of much help in capturing any truly significant players in this game of terrorising. [The unofficial story of the al-Qaeda 14, Sep 10,2006]
However,there are also the few that opposes these ideas and are for torturing as an acceptable investigative technique so long as the jailers are sure that the detainee possesses the valuable information the agency required to save the life of another or many others, such application of pain is reasonable and justified.
In my opinion on the issue,I believe that torturing is still quite unacceptable who is there to acknowledge how much pain applied to the suspect is 'reasonable'? I torturing does not work,what can the jailer do?find the detainee's child and wife and do harm to them in front of him? as claimed by Mr Paris Aristotle in his response to Mr Faris. Furthermore,after torture is applied and the result turns out to be negative, we will never get it, so why go through so much trouble when we can get more reults through the use of other methods that more civilised and morally right?
