Asked if he'd bring back waterboarding, a technique the U.S. government has stopped using to interrogate terror suspects, Trump said he "would be inclined to be very strong."
He went on: "When people are chopping off other people's heads and then we're worried about waterboarding and we can't, because I have no doubt that that works. I have absolutely no doubt."
Pressed further on waterboarding, Trump said: "I haven't heard that term in a year now, because when you see the other side chopping off heads, waterboarding doesn't sound very severe."
Why am I not surprised?
From Sicily And The Mafia
In 1924,Mussolini visited Sicily. He was angered by the reception he received. Mafia capos treated him as a mere guest, nothing more. They told him that he was under their protection. The dictator would have none of it. Opposition to his regime could not be tolerated. The Mafia, Mussolini avowed, had to be neutralized, just as the socialists, communists, and other anti-fascists had to be. In their methods to suppress the Mafia, the Fascists would prove to be more mafioso than the mafiosi, defeating them on grounds of honor and violence...-RW
In October 1925, a furious Mussolini named Cesare Mori (1872-1942) as Prefect, the chief administrative official of the island. No quarter was to be given. Mussolini ordered Prefect Mori to crack down with ferro e fucci (steel and fire). Because Mafia power was equal to the power of the State, dire measures were needed. This was to be an invasion of western Sicily, not simply a police action. Between 1926 and 1928 eleven thousand suspects were to be arrested...
Mori’s men moved quickly to arrest all persons under the suspicion of "association for criminal purposes." Large numbers were rounded up, found guilty and imprisoned, while others fled Sicily to other countries. (As many as five hundred entered the United States, some illegally, with the aid of their American cousins.) Torture was employed to extract confessions, and violence to persons and properties was commonplace...
Guilt was often assumed and severe interrogations were applied to wrench confessions from the recalcitrant. In the words of one victim:
"There were two boxes, placed on top of the other, about a meter long. My legs were extended on the top of the upper box and secured with two iron rings. Then my arms were tied behind me and a leather belt, which was attached to the box, was tightened over my thighs. With my legs on the box and my back on the floor, I was fixed in place by a cord. A gas mask was applied to my face with the tube leading to the interior of the mask, left open. The torture began when one of the sbirri [cops] took a large can of salt water and poured the liquid into the tube of the mask. At the same time, another sbirro hit the bottom of my feet with a whip while another grabbed my testicles and twisted them. I was so fearful of suffocating in that mask filled with water that I barely felt the pain from my testicles and feet. I swallowed the water and when they calculated that my stomach was full, they untied me, took off the mask and one of the sbirri pressed on my abdomen so that I threw up the liquid. Was I ready to confess? they asked. When I said I wasn’t, they repeated the procedure." (D. Dolci. Racconti siciliani, p.79)
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