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The human rights organisation Amnesty Impartial today called on the US government to show restraint in its use of torture to extract information from suspected terrorists.

"Torture is an inefficient means of gaining accurate information, and therefore we believe its use will have a negligible positive impact in winning the war against nastiness," claimed Amnesty spokesperson Tristram Woolley.

An assistant vice-under-secretary to a vice-assistant to a secretary to a secretary to a member of a subcommittee reporting to one of the US Department of Homeland Security's subdepartmental deputy heads, who declined to be named for reasons of insignificance, said that the US government would be "looking very carefully" at Amnesty's recommendations.

"Of course the Department is aware of the capability of enhanced interrogation methods with regard to the extraction of possibly disputable information," he said. "However, the Department considers such potentialities to be adequately balanced by the deterrence potential inherent in the utilisation of such methods."

In the statement released today, Amnesty Impartial also called on terrorist organisations to show restraint in their own activities, and said that both sides should be open to the negotiation of workable compromises.