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CIA interrogators used inhumane tactics to frighten captured al-Qaeda commanders into giving up information after the 9/11 attacks. We're going to kill your children. With these words, a CIA interrogator tried to squeeze intelligence information from accused terror mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. On Monday, the threat was revealed in a newly declassified report on alleged detainee abuse as President Barack Obama's Justice Department launched a criminal probe of unauthorised, inhumane tactics during George W Bush's war on terrorism. Kahlid Sheikh was arrested from Pakistan and shifted to a CIA secret jail before sending to Guantanamo Bay in 2006. As the report was released, Attorney General Holder appointed prosecutor John Durham to open a preliminary investigation into the claims of abuse. Durham is already investigating the destruction of CIA interrogation videos and now will examine whether CIA officers or contractors broke laws in the handling of suspects.
