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...takes time, but, as a source says, "When you sit there staring at the ocean and you see how far you are from home and you're never going to get there, that all works on your mind." Meanwhile, at a secret location, CIA officers continue to question Abu Zubaydah, the suspected al-Qaeda operations chief who was captured after a March gunfight in Faisalabad, Pakistan. Abu Zubaydah, say CIA and other U.S. government sources, is not being tortured, but a variety of methods are being used to encourage him to talk. Typical military interrogation tactics would include depriving...
...Zubaydah's information needs to be taken with a pinch of salt; not all of it has checked out. But U.S. officials have a reason for publicly attributing to him many of their leads, whether they originate with him or not. "It declares to his old friends that he's turned colors and come over to our side," says one. "That means he's toast, and he knows it. He doesn't have any friends back home, so he might as well make some here." The ploy may or may not work, but it seems that the Gitmo interrogations...
...talk to him about a plan that worked. Mohammed, 37, who was born in Kuwait, is believed to have been a key player in the Sept. 11 attacks. "He was involved in every aspect--concocting the scheme, training, financing," says a U.S. official. Mohammed has been fingered by Abu Zubaydah, a top lieutenant of Osama bin Laden now in U.S. custody at a secret location, and by some al-Qaeda detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Officials are still not sure of Mohammed's precise role in the hijackings--"Calling him the mastermind goes further than we would go," says...
...officials say that al Muhajir was arrested on tips, with evidence provided by senior al-Qaeda captive Abu Zubaydah corroborated from other sources. His capture was certainly an impressive example of interagency cooperation and preemptive security based on sound intelligence. But from the information released by U.S. officials Monday, al Muhajir appears to have more in common with solo shoe-bomber Richard Reid than with the 19 hijackers of September 11. Indeed, rather than a specific conspiracy to detonate a radiological bomb at a designated target, al Muhajir may have been doing a feasibility study. There was no suggestion...
...Officials suggest al Muhajir had approached Abu Zubaydah and other senior al-Qaeda leaders in Pakistan last December and suggested a dirty bomb attack in the U.S. They liked the fact that al Muhajir had a U.S. passport, and trained him in wiring explosives, while he did research on the Internet into radiological dispersion. From the little reported, the impression is not of a star al-Qaeda engineer but rather of an eager volunteer with easy access to the U.S. Both the al Muhajir instance and the case of shoe-bomber Richard Reid suggest that some of the volunteers...