Read the Info. Look at the picture. Answer the questions.
President Obama said that he is comfortable with his decision to ban waterboarding.
Waterboarding is a torture technique that was used to get information from terrorist suspects that were held prisoner by the C.I.A. in Cuba.
Waterboarding is when people hold you down and pour water over your face, over and over again. It makes you feel like you are drowning but it does not actually kill you.
President Obama made it a point to stop waterboarding because he feels that it is wrong.
Questions:
1) Who banned waterboarding?
2) What is waterboarding?
3) What does waterboarding feel like?
4) Why was waterboarding stopped?
Info taken form the Guardian. Pic taken from howstuffworks.com
Due 5/1/09
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