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Torturing terrorists `inefficient`

Published 22 Dec, 2008 06:29 | Updated 22 Dec, 2008 09:29

Former U.S. military interrogator Matthew Alexander, says fear and torture are inefficient in obtaining information from terrorist suspects.

He says atrocities in Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison and the camp at Guantanamo only helped Al Qaeda recruit new fighters.

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