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Padilla is better known as the “Dirty Bomber,” the American citizen who, according to government officials, received explosives training from al Qaeda operatives in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and later plotted with al Qaeda lieutenant Abu Zubaydah to detonate a radiological bomb in the United States. Padilla was arrested at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport in May 2002. Since being classified as an enemy combatant, he has been detained in a South Carolina naval brig...
...Afghan training centers as having attended the Khalden camp, which catered to European-national jihadists and taught kamikaze tactics. Both Zacarias Moussaoui, the accused "20th hijacker," and "millennium bomber" Ahmed Ressam were Khalden graduates. That Khalden nurtured European jihad recruits was no accident. The camp was run by Abu Zubaydah, a Palestinian who acted as al-Qaeda's chief recruiter and puppet master of Europe-based terrorists until his arrest in Pakistan in March 2002. According to French antiterror officials, phone intercepts show Zubaydah telegraphed preparations for a foiled 2000 bombing of the Christmas market outside Strasbourg Cathedral and also...
...book, Why America Slept, author Gerald Posner quotes U.S. officials as saying a key al-Qaeda operative in U.S. custody, Abu Zubaydah, told his interrogators that al-Qaeda had an explicit deal with the Saudi royals to desist from violence in the kingdom in exchange for Saudi financing. Abu Zubaydah is said to have claimed that bin Laden told him he had made the deal in 1991 with Prince Turki al-Faisal bin Abdul Aziz, the longtime Saudi intelligence chief. Posner writes that Abu Zubaydah claimed to have attended several meetings with Turki and bin Laden in Afghanistan and Pakistan...
...been suggested that Saudi Arabia probably had some kind of secret arrangement to stave off fundamentalists within the kingdom. But this appears to be the first description of a repeated, explicit quid pro quo between bin Laden and a Saudi official. Posner told TIME he got the details of Zubaydah's interrogation and revelations from a U.S. official outside the CIA at a "very senior Executive Branch level" whose name we would probably know if he told it to us. He did not. The second source, Posner said, was from the CIA, and he gave what Posner viewed as general...
Finally, the details of Zubaydah's drug-induced confessions might bring on charges that the U.S. is using torture on terrorism suspects. According to Posner, the Administration decided shortly after 9/11 to permit the use of Sodium Pentothal on prisoners. The Administration, he writes, "privately believes that the Supreme Court has implicitly approved using such drugs in matters where public safety is at risk," citing a 1963 opinion...