i don't believe in cruel techniques under any circumstance. you cannot invent a scenario where you defiently know a man knows something, that doesn't happen there is always the chance you are wrong, you intelligence might be flawed, the man who handed him over might be corrupt, mistakes might have been made. a few hundred thousand iraqi's will tell you there is no such thing as 100% proof and why you cannot rely on such things to take lives.

you would never need to evacuate new york city as a bomb of that size is not feasible. and if you are evacuating an area that size because you do not know where the bomb is then you don't know where the bomber is either.

such a scenario cannot exist in the real world. so you do not know the man has a bomb, you think he has a bomb. are you prepared to shoot a man on a think?

you need absolute proof before you can take a man's life or torture a man. otherwise you are led down a very dark alley.