Likely scenario:

Okay, Troll, so you torture your terrorist, and after a long and grueling session for all concerned, he finally spills the beans. The Statue of Liberty, he tells you, is going to be blown up in a symbolic gesture. Simultaneously, a dirty bomb, smuggled into New York harbor in a cargo container, will detonate, scattering radioactivity over a large area of the city.

While the Statue of Liberty is being searched from head to foot and the waterfront is being scoured in an attempt to find which of the thousands of cargo containers contains the bomb, a smallpox-laden aerosol is released, quietly and unnoticed, in Chicago's O'Hare airport.

There was no dirty bomb and no explosives in the Statue of Liberty. The terrorist sits in his cell and laughs uproariously at those who had tortured him. "Gotcha!!"

Torture is not a reliable way of getting accurate information. Never has been.

Don Firth