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« on: October 19, 2007, 10:34:15 am »

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

Several accounts reported that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) was waterboarded while being interrogated by the CIA. According to the Bush Administration, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed divulged information of tremendous value during his detention. He is said to have helped point the way to the capture of Hambali, the Indonesian terrorist responsible for the 2002 bombings of night clubs in Bali. He also, according to the Bush Administration, provided information on an Al Qaeda leader in England.[32] On October 24, 2006 during a radio interview with Scott Hennen of radio station WDAY, Vice President Dick Cheney agreed with the use of waterboarding, specifically mentioning Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.[33] On September 13, 2007 ABC News reported that a former intelligence officer stated that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed had been waterboarded in the presence of a female CIA supervisor.[34]

Captured along with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was a letter from bin Laden[35] which led officials to think that he knew where the Al Qaeda founder was hiding.[36]

According to sources familiar with a private interview of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, he claimed to have been waterboarded five times.[37] "A CIA official told ABC News that he had been water-boarded, and had won the admiration of his interrogators because it took him two to two-and-half minutes to start confessing - well beyond the average of 14 seconds observed in others"[38]. This is disputed by two former C.I.A. officers who are reportedly friends with one of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed interrogators called this bravado, and who claimed that he was waterboarded only once. According to one of the officers, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed needed only to be shown the drowning equipment again before he “broke.” “Waterboarding works,” the former officer said. “Drowning is a baseline fear. So is falling. People dream about it. It’s human nature. Suffocation is a very scary thing. When you’re waterboarded, you’re inverted, so it exacerbates the fear. It’s not painful, but it scares the **** out of you.” (The former officer was waterboarded himself in a training course.) Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, he claimed, “didn’t resist. He sang right away. He cracked real quick.” He said, “A lot of them want to talk. Their egos are unimaginable. KSM was just a little doughboy. He couldn’t stand toe to toe and fight it out.”[39] After being subjected to waterboarding, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed claimed involvement in thirty-one terrorist plots.[40]

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