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Say. i don't agree with torture. i think enhanced interrogation does work when you're not hurting someone permanently. i think we can be enhanced and we can be smart and catch them in lies and get the truth of them. >> final question to you because you're the guy to ask. there was such debate between what we heard from the cia last week and from this torture report as to whether or not the information through enhanced interrogation techniques or torture led to finding, hunting down and you shooting the bullet that killed osama bin laden. do you think that helped you find him and kill him? >> a...

Moazzam begg has spoken out against the way that the war on terror has been con duducted. i wanted to understand what effect this would have on begg's point of view. i spoke to him this week. i was in mumbai and he was in birmingham, new england, where he lives. mr. begg, thank you for joining us. let me ask you, first, you say that when you were in custody -- in u.s. custody, you witnessed acts of torture. does the report accurately describe the kind of acts you saw? >> it does. some of the torture led to death. i saw one prisoner in the bagram facility which is afghanistan with his hands tie...

Lives. mr. begg, thank you for joining us. let me ask you, first, you say that when you were in custody -- in u.s. custody, you witnessed acts of torture. does the report accurately describe the kind of acts you saw? >> it does. some of the torture led to death. i saw one prisoner in the bagram detention facility which is in afghanistan with his hands tied to the top of the door being repeatedly punch and kicked and i know that this prisoner actually died as a result of the beatings that he received. now, some of the techniques that have been mentioned mercifully i was not subjected to but the...

>> so the question is, you don't really think it works, if you say to a guy, i'm going to do this to you, or else i'm going to leave you alone and let you sit in the cell, you don't think that gets information? >> i can't say it better than evan coleman. torture led to this connection between iraq and al qaeda that didn't exist. he gave the best information before he was tortured. and people were tortured long after they could provide information because they were out of the field. there was no ticking time bomb the 183rd time khalid sheikh mohammed was tortured. so it makes no sense, it's imm...

Here's the big breaking news that was so important fox just had to tear itself away from the torture story. >> we'll cover the news as it happens. we'll move on now. a food fight is happening on capitol hill. a political one. the possible changes to the first lady's lunch rules that would give schools a break. could this be the beginning of the end for the first lady's program? >> carrots, broccoli? why talk about torture when you can talk about the first lady and celery? we'll have more on the news from the torture report, including claims that torture led to bin laden. next. because i make t...