“I just said those things to make the people happy. But when they freed me, I told them all, ‘I only told you these things to make you happy,’” Nashiri said at a March 14 hearing held by military officials to determine if he should be designated as an enemy combatant and tried before a military commission.

Nashiri, 42, said his U.S. captors began torturing him as soon as he was arrested in November 2002 in the United Arab Emirates; the torture stopped, he said, when he was transferred from secret CIA custody to Guantanamo last September along with 13 other “high value” detainees. Among them was confessed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed.

In an unclassified summary of the evidence against him, military officials said Nashiri was an experienced terrorist operative with significant military and explosives training. They said he played an important role in the Cole bombing, which killed 17 U.S. sailors as the ship refueled in the port of Aden.

Source: Detainee says he confessed to stop torture – Los Angeles Times

Sure, it’s self-serving testimony.  But what are we to think?  The “Commander-in-Chief” himself refused to issue orders that there was to be no torture of prisoners.  After that, all the protestations fell on deaf ears as far as I was concerned.