Word: zubaydah
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...Director Gen. Michael Hayden has admitted that in 2005 the CIA destroyed two videotapes of interrogations of al-Qaeda prisoners, including a central figure in 9/11, Abu Zubaydah. Hayden said the tapes were destroyed to protect the identities of the CIA interrogators from members of al-Qaeda and other terrorists who might try to retaliate. He also claims that the tapes were made to safeguard against unlawful treatment of detainees, and that they were only destroyed after it was confirmed that suspects were not being tortured...
...Padilla was in Afghanistan when the U.S. invaded in October 2001, moving "from safe house to safe house," the court records say, until he made it to Pakistan. There he allegedly met suspected terrorist honchos like Abu Zubaydah (to whom he allegedly suggested making a dirty bomb) and Khalid Sheikh Mohammad (who allegedly told him to go to the U.S. and blow up apartment buildings...
...seep into the public record about what might have happened during Padilla's detention. And if it ever existed, the evidence of a dirty bomb and attacks on apartment buildings is not expected to appear in the trial - possibly because it was obtained through improper interrogation of witnesses like Zubaydah (who says he was tortured) or even of Padilla, who at the very least was questioned without an attorney present, a no-no under the rules of criminal procedure...
...going to say something baseless." The Americans then asked what he knew about al-Qaeda's high command. The answers were not illuminating. Bin Laden? Noorzai admitted to "seeing" him only once, in Kandahar in the late 1990s. What about 9/11 planner Khalid Sheikh Mohammed? Or Abu Zubaydah, al-Qaeda's chief of military operations? "I'm telling you," Noorzai responded irritably, "I don't know any of the Arabs...
...French are incredulous at the prospect of Doha going free. "How can you have Abu Zubaydah, Khaled Sheikh Mohammed, and who knows how many low-level fighters in secret camps and let someone of Abu Doha's stature free by deporting him?" the French counter-terrorism official asks. "It's incomprehensible that someone with his profile will be deported to freedom and allowed to resume his activities...