Thursday, July 11, 2013

The CIA Permitted Al Qaeda Leader Khalid Sheikh Mohammed To 'Redesign The Vacuum Cleaner'

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is shown in this file photograph during his arrest on March 1, 2003. REUTERS/Courtesy U.S.News & World Report/Files

CIA Let KSM Design Vacuum Cleaner In Detention To 'Keep Him Sane' -- The Guardian

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's blueprint is but one peculiar byproduct of US detention and interrogation program

Confined to the basement of a CIA secret prison in Romania about a decade ago, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the admitted mastermind of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, asked his jailers whether he could embark on an unusual project: would the spy agency allow Mohammed, who had earned his bachelor's in mechanical engineering, to design a vacuum cleaner?

The agency officer in charge of the prison called CIA headquarters and a manager approved the request, a former senior CIA official told The Associated Press.

Mohammed had endured the most brutal of the CIA's harsh interrogation methods and had confessed to a career of atrocities. But the agency had no long-term plan for him. Someday, he might prove useful. Perhaps, he'd even stand trial one day.

And for that, he'd need to be sane.

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More News On The CIA Letting KSM Design A Vacuum Cleaner While In Detention In Order To 'Keep Him Sane'

The CIA and a secret vacuum cleaner -- AP
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed 'asked to design' vacuum cleaner -- BBC
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed 'redesigned vacuum' -- The Telegraph
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Designed a Vacuum Cleaner from His CIA Prison -- Atlantic Wire
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's Vacuum Challenge -- SKY News
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: Terrorist Mastermind, Inventor of Vacuums -- National Journal
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Wanted to Give the World a Better Vacuum Cleaner -- New York Magazine

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