Torture was used to get information on Osama: US

February 04, 2013 13:19

US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has admitted that torture and enhanced interrogation techniques were used to "put together the puzzle" that led to the killing of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan.

Panetta made the candid admission, becoming the highest-ranking Obama administration official to do so, while responding to a question on Kathyrn Bigelow's Oscar-nominated film Zero Dark Thirty, the New York Post reported.

The film depicts prisoners being water boarded by the US in an effort to find out where bin Laden is hiding.

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