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Watch part two
On Thursday Riz speaks with a U.S. Special Forces interrogator whose team is credited with hunting down and killing Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, the leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, in 2006.
"Matthew Alexander" (not his real name) was a senior interrogator in Iraq and the author of the just-released, "How to Break a Terrorist: The U.S. Interrogators Who Used Brains, Not Brutality, to Take Down the Deadliest Man in Iraq."
Alexander says that US interrogation methods are "deeply flawed, ineffective and un-American," amount to torture, and are not the most efficient ways of getting information.
Also joining the program is David Rivkin, an attorney who formerly advised the Reagan and George H. W. Bush administrations, about the U.S. government's policy regarding torture. Rivkin argues that the US should accept the fact that torture may be required during the so-called "war on terror."
This episode of Riz Khan aired on Thursday, December 18 at 2030 GMT, with repeats at 0030GMT and 0530GMT.
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