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...guile and graft, are the best way to break down even the most stubborn subjects. He told a recent hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee that it was these methods, not the harsh techniques, that prompted al-Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah to give up the identities of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-confessed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, and "dirty bomber" Jose Padilla. Bush Administration officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney, had previously claimed that Abu Zubaydah supplied that information only after he was waterboarded. But Soufan says once the rough treatment began - administered by CIA-hired private contractors with...
...operations underway, and the ineffectiveness of peacekeepers in Darfur, and the DRC raises big questions over whether such operations can ever be successful. It is widely acknowledged that finding a lasting fix to either piracy or the humanitarian crisis would require fixing Somalia, and that, as President Sheikh Sharif Sharif Ahmed told the Guardian newspaper last month, "is the hardest job in the world...
...biggest mistake the Bush Administration made was not criminalizing 9/11 and making the FBI the lead investigator. This would not have stood in the way of Pakistan arresting 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (K.S.M.). In a war of ideas, we would have been well served as a country to have put K.S.M. on public trial, confronting him with damning evidence and exposing the bloody insanity of a man who has caused the death of more Muslims than anyone in modern history. But now, thanks to waterboarding and other interrogation abuses, this option may be closed off to us. (Read...
...during the presidential campaign and suspended their use on his second day in office, the same day he ordered the Guantanamo Bay detention facility closed within the year. But privately White House officials worried about winning conventional convictions against some "high-value" defendants, including accused Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. (The standard for admitting evidence is more rigorous in civilian court, and some confessed terrorists were not first told of their right against self-incrimination, which could bar their confessions from court.) Of the 240 detainees at Gitmo, 13 have been referred to military commissions for trial. (See pictures...
...terrorists: former FBI interrogator Ali Soufan. With cameras turned away from his face in order to protect his identity, Soufan gave a detailed account of the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah. The suspected al-Qaeda operative, he said, was giving up actionable intelligence - including the identities of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the so-called dirty bomber, Jose Padilla - long before the controversial interrogation techniques were applied. Once the harsh methods were used, Abu Zubaydah just shut down. When Soufan's protests about the methods went unheeded, the FBI decided to relinquish any role in detainee interrogations. (See pictures...