Sunday, June 22, 2008

Inside A 9/11 Mastermind's Interrogation

Khalid Shaikh Mohammed

From International Herald Tribune:

WASHINGTON: In a makeshift prison in the north of Poland, Al Qaeda's engineer of mass murder faced off against his Central Intelligence Agency interrogator. It was 18 months after the 9/11 attacks, and the invasion of Iraq was giving Muslim extremists new motives for havoc. If anyone knew about the next plot, it was Khalid Shaikh Mohammed.

The interrogator, Deuce Martinez, a soft-spoken analyst who spoke no Arabic, had turned down a CIA offer to be trained in waterboarding. He chose to leave the infliction of pain and panic to others, the gung-ho paramilitary types whom the more cerebral interrogators called "knuckledraggers."

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News From Other Sources On A 9/11 Mastermind's Interrogation
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: The interrogator who made him talk -- The Telegraph
How al Qaeda mastermind was made to talk -- San Francisco Chronicle
New York Times: Editor's Note
News roundup: How to break a terrorist -- USA Today
Report: Torture failed on Sept. 11 planner -- UPI
New York Times Outs CIA Operative -- Newsbusters

My Comment: The irony of this New York Times story is an eye opener. On the one hand they were obsessed with the outing of Valerie Plame, on the other hand they are relaxed in outing the name of an agent who was not only active overseas, but handled one of the Agencies most critical assignments.

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