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...Zubaydah DETAINED --The operations chief was caught in Pakistan in March. U.S. investigators are leery of his statements to them, but evidence found during his capture is helping widen the hunt for terrorists...
...Bush who broke the deadlock. Each morning the CIA gives the Chief Executive a top-secret Presidential Daily Brief (PDB) on pressing issues of national security. One day in early spring, Tenet briefed Bush on the hunt for Abu Zubaydah, al-Qaeda's head of international operations, who was suspected of having been involved in the planning of the attack on the U.S.S. Cole. After the PDB, Bush told Rice that the approach to al-Qaeda was too scattershot. He was tired of "swatting at flies" and asked for a comprehensive plan for attacking terrorism. According to an official, Rice...
Newly recruited terrorists and their plots are frightening, but perhaps more disturbing is the government's surprisingly inhumane treatment of the suspected terrorists [WAR ON TERROR, June 24]. Your articles cited sleep deprivation and modulation of caloric intake among the methods of interrogation used on Abu Zubaydah, al-Qaeda's chief of operations. This is the sort of treatment that one could expect from a 19th century French penal colony, not from the 21st century U.S. Jose Padilla, a U.S. citizen, was arrested on American soil, but when the Federal Government was unable to build a case against him that...
When the agents finally reported back that Abu Zubaydah had been captured in a gun battle, wounded but still alive, only quiet smiles went around the room. Everyone was too exhausted from the ordeal to cheer. Besides, there was no time for celebration. The approximately 10,000 pages of documents seized in the villa had to be translated quickly and analyzed. An interrogation team had to be organized for Abu Zubaydah, who when he had healed began giving CIA and FBI agents tantalizing hints of future strikes...
...would mean bin Laden survived last year's American bombardment of Afghanistan, including the assault on Tora Bora. The evidence, according to a source who has seen a French intelligence analysis of it, is a short handwritten letter, bearing bin Laden's signature, to al-Qaeda operations chief Abu Zubaydah. The note, which was among the documents found on Abu Zubaydah when he was seized in a March police raid in Pakistan, exhorts Abu Zubaydah to continue the jihad against the U.S. even if something happens to bin Laden or to his deputy, Egyptian Ayman al-Zawahiri, a reference that...