Evidence that torture creates terrorists

There is mounting evidence that US torture has and still does create terrorists that kill Americans (and others)--not a surprising finding in any case.
Major Matthew Alexander (a pseudonym) recently declared so. He says he oversaw more than 1,000 interrogations, conducting more than 300 in Iraq personally.

Watch the Brave New Film video where he appears.

“Torture does not save lives,” Alexander said in his interview. “And the reason why is that our enemies use it, number one, as a recruiting tool…These same foreign fighters who came to Iraq to fight because of torture and abuse….literally cost us hundreds if not thousands of American lives.”

Moreover, Alexander avers that many — as many as 90 percent — of those captured in Iraq said they joined the fight against the United States because of the torture conducted at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay.

“At the prison where I conducted interrogations,” Alexander said, “we heard day in and day out, foreign fighters who had been captured state that the number one reason that they had come to fight in Iraq was because of torture and abuse, what had happened at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib.”

Alexander had made the same revelations to PAtrick Cockburn not long ago.