From the BBC

The White House has allowed the CIA to use practices such as mock drowning of prisoners, which would almost certainly be considered unacceptable under the terms of the convention, our correspondent says.

Mock drowning.....that means fixing them to a plank and forcing them under water repeatedly until their lungs are bursting and they choke and vomit.... wow how can anyone call that torture..

Some former detainees have alleged they were part of a US network of "ghost flights" and secret prisons run by the CIA around the world.

They claim they were subjected to beatings, electric shock treatments and solitary confinement during their detention.

Ms Rice has admitted that terror suspects are flown abroad for interrogation under a process called rendition, but denied they were tortured.
So...why take them...? Probably thought a sight seeing trip would make them feel so grateful to Uncle Sam that they'd co-operate..........
you know...I just want to live long enough to hear the truth ...read all those memoirs in years to come...God..we're so easily fooled by these bastards..Blair.. Rumsfeld...Cheney...Bush...