McNab pictured with David Cameron
A FORMER SAS soldier turned author who served in Derry during the conflict has defended the use of torture.
Andy McNab was speaking after a US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence investigation last week revealed that brutal techniques used by CIA agents against Al-Qaeda suspects in the wake of the 9/11 bombings failed to produce useful intelligence.
The ex-soldier said there are a number of “quick, harmful, painful techniques” he would use on a captive.
The British Army 20-year veteran told The Times he “wouldn’t think twice” about inflicting pain on someone.
“I would deem it a moral responsibility to interrogate, to physically torture him to get the information out.
“Torture is a really blunt instrument but it is an instrument that, if it is used right, can yield results.
“There will always be legislation to make sure that we don’t do it but we will do it.”
He says Iraqi interrogators tortured him when he was captured in January 1991 during the first Gulf War.
In Ireland, McNab – now a millionaire celebrity author on the back of his memoirs and fictional war stories – served with the Royal Green Jackets regiment in South Armagh and later for two years undercover in Derry.
He says he “makes no apologies for what he did during what he calls the war in Northern Ireland”.
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