SECRET ORCON INTERROGATION LOG DETAINEE 063 23 November 2002 0225: The detainee arrives at the interrogation booth at Camp X-Ray. His hood is removed and he is bolted to the floor. SGT A and SGT R are the interrogators. A DoD linguist and MAJ L (BSCT) are present. 0235: Session begins. The detainee refuses to look at SGT A “due to his religion. This is a rapport building session. 0240: Detainee states he’s on hunger strike. SGT A explains the affects of a hunger strike on the body. SGT A runs “love of brothers in Cuba” approach. 0320: The detainee refused to answer whether he wanted water. SGT R explained with emphasis that not answering disrespects SGT A and embarrasses him. The detainee said no, he didn’t want water. The detainee continues to say he’s on hunger strike. 0345: The detainee dozed off during a break. SGT R woke him up. 0355: SGT R wakes up detainee again. 0450: Interrogators take a break. Detainee goes to the bathroom. 0520: Interrogation resumes. The detainee refuses food and water. 0540: SGT A begins 9/11 theme. The detainee asks to pray and is refused. 0550: Detainee drinks _ bottle of water and states after this he is on strike, he refuses food. 0620: Interrogators take break to discuss theme. 0630: Interrogation resumes. SGT A continues with 9/11 theme. 0700: SGT R emphasized his frustration over detainees refusal to speak. SGT R denies detainees request to pray. 0707: Detainee requests to go to the bathroom. 0720: Detainee returns from bathroom break. He refuses a meal and states he is on hunger strike. 0725: Detainee states he will eat meal, but after that he’s going on hunger strike, one hand is uncuffed to allow him to eat. 0755: Detainee finishes meal and states again he is going on hunger strike. The detainee ate the entire MRE plus an extra cereal bar. 0800: SGT A continues with 9/11 theme. 0830: Detainee given 2 hours of rest. Interrogations will resume at 1030. 0835: Observations – Detainee attempts to control the interrogation by complaining about his treatment, his mental illness, and his separation from his brothers in Cuba. When shown articles of 9/11, the detainee looked at pictures attentively. The detainee was repeatedly told that he is a man, and part of being a man is accepting responsibility for your actions. Whenever the detainee said that “it is God’s will for him to be sitting in front of me, having to acknowledge and accept responsibility for his actions. The detainee went as far as to state that his religion forbids him to even speak to a woman. SECRET ORCON 1035: The detainee is awakened and secured in chair. The interrogators are ENS C and IS1 E. A DoD linguist is present. The detainee is offered to use the restroom. The detainee is taken to the bathroom. The detainee then was starring at the floor for several minutes. When ENS C asked “what is on your mind” the detainee looked at the interrogator and began talking a lot about how unfair his situation was. 1110: The detainee asked if it was time to pray and was told not yet. The detainee then began asking what month it is. When not given an answer he persisted and then became quiet for about 10 minutes and then began again to engage in some conversation. 1135: The detainee began to shut down and not respond. He said that he would not speak at all. 1205: Break 1220: Interrogators returned and told the detainee it would be 20 minutes and then time to pray. 1240: Detainee given opportunity to pray. 1300: Lunch. Detainee refused to eat. At first he said he would eat, but then said that he was mentally not well and had only agreed because he was not thinking clearly. 1345: Detainee was shown 9/11 video. The detainee did watch without exhibiting any emotion. The detainee averted eyes from the photos of the hijackers. 1420: Read names of captured and killed AQ. The detainee stared off but was listening and closed his eyes when he heard some of the names of the dead. 1500: Break 1515: The detainee engaged in conversation regarding family and dreams. He asked why the interrogator was causing him pain talking of family and things he could not have. The detainee began to cry. 1530: Detainee requested and was given a bathroom break. Detainee returned hardened. 1700: Detainee spoke and said it has been a hard long day, also that he is on a hunger and talking strike. 1730: Detainee is offered food and water. He stated he was on a hunger strike. Food and water was provided anyway and placed next to him. 1800: Manchester Document was presented to the detainee. The detainee reacted when the description of an AQ operative was brought up. 1810: Detainee was asked if he would like to go the bathroom and if he wanted to nap. 1820: Circumstantial evidence was explained to the detainee. The Detainee stared at all of the documents and was visibily shaken. He seemed disturbed that the AQ leadership was talking, the detainee didn’t say anything but he was making noticeable facial expressions. 1840: Detainee was told that he failed in his mission to the United States and in the Jihad in Afghanistan he again showed a facial response of failure. 1900: Break 1910: Returned from break. 1920: The detainee started speaking when told about the Koran and being judged by Allah and that leaders of AQ twisted the words. The detainee spoke very emotionally . SGT B asked to explain how this came about. Why he is the only SECRET ORCON one holding on and everyone else is speaking . SGT B stated “don’t worry about a military judge worry about Allah, the Koran doesn’t say kill the innocent. Make things right, repent.” 1930: Detainee cried. He wants to be taken back to Delta and he will talk. He was told that he had to earn his way back to Delta. 1945: Break 1950: Returned from break. SGT B told the detainee “I want to help and I won’t let anything bad happen to you.” Detainee became unresponsive. 2030: Break. Detainee used restroom and was allowed to sleep. 2145: Return from break. Detainee awakened and taken to restroom then secured in chair. 2215: Detainee unresponsive. 2400: Activities concluded for the day and detainee allowed to sleep. 24 November 2002 0400: SGT R and SGT A begin session. SGT R wakes 063. He is taken to the bathroom and walked around for 5 minutes to wake him up. SGT A greets 063. Detainee asks to perform sunrise prayer. SGT A tells him the sun hasn’t come up yet and that she will allow prayer later. SGT A offers water, but detainee refuses. Detainee asks when Ramadan will begin, SGT A says she’ll talk about that later. SGT A tells detainee that he is on hunger strike, so how would Ramadan make a difference? SGT A asks detainee what would be different if it was Ramadan, detainee states he doesn’t know how to answer the question, and detainee becomes unresponsive. 0415: SGT A begins by showing pictures of 19 hijackers and making remarks about what they may have been like, especially the young ones. Detainee won’t look at pictures. SGT A asks why detainee won’t look at pictures detainee won’t answer, SGT A is using the circumstantial evidence theme. 0430: Detainee nods off. SGT R explains that falling asleep is wrong. 0430: Detainee states that he won’t look at pictures because the people in the pictures don’t pertain to his case, and because he’s striking from interrogations. 0440: Detainee states he won’t participate in interrogations until he returns to Cuba with his brothers, and until we stop this injustice. SGT R explains that he has no right to talk of injustice. 0445: Detainee engages in conversation with SGT A over the evidence. Detainee states that the (U.S.) shouldn’t glue the hijackers to him. SGT A states that the evidence does that. 0450: Detainee wants to know if SGT A wants interrogation questions answered. SGT A states she doesn’t need an answer. The detainee seems disheartened by her response. 0450: SGT A is fusing the Level of Guilt Theme with the Evidence. The Detainee is not speaking, but appears to be listening carefully. SGT A is pointing out the little mistakes the detainee made that lead to the evidence that “glue the detainee to hijackers”. The detainee becomes unresponsive. 0457: SGT R advises detainee not to sleep. SECRET ORCON 0509: SGT R advises detainee not to sleep. 0520: SGT R makes the detainee stand up and sit down 3 times. SGT R explains sleeping and not paying attention will not be tolerated. SGT A explains that his continued silence, while evidence builds against him hurts no one but him. 0545: Detainee continues to be unresponsive. SGT A continues to point out the mistakes that stopped him from entering Orlando, and the connections the detainee has with the hijackers. 0550: SGT R makes the detainee stand up 3 times and tells him to pay attention. 0602: SGT A is telling a story about an owl (Rapport Story). The detainee interrupts and states he wants to pray. SGT R advises detainee that SGT A decides when he prays. SGT R also explains that interrupting is rude. 0605: Detainee again asks to pray. SGT R says no. 0620: Detainee states he wants to pray. SGT R explains that he must respectfully ask SGT A for prayer time, the detainee does so and SGT A allows prayer. 0635: SGT A begins “ Muslims in America Theme”. Detainee is unresponsive 0702: SGT A briefly covers the Manchester Document, saying that his actions and answers during interrogations follow the resistance techniques in the document “It’s just another piece of evidence.” 0705: SGT R makes detainee stand up 3 times, and tells the detainee to pay attention. SGT R gives 5 minutes of instruction on the proper way to show respect to SGT A. 0708: SGT A talks about “Brothers in Cuba”. Detainee remains unresponsive. 0800: SGT A offers meal to detainee. The detainee refuses. SGT R explains that refusal to eat is unproductive. SGT A offers 30 minutes rest. The detainee refuses. Interrogators had Corpsman check the detainee’s vital signs. The detainee has not taken fluids for over 24 hours. Corpsman states vital signs are good. The detainee still refuses to speak a word. 0820: SGT R removes food from table and tells the detainee he missed his chance. SGT R explains that the detainee’s refusal to eat hurts only him. SGT R will not loose any sleep over it. 0830: SGT A uses “Level of Guilt” approach. 0840: SGT R has the detainee stand for 10 minutes to stretch and avoid sleeping. 0900. SGT A asks the detainee if he wants to pray and sleep. The detainee says yes. SGT A says you have to drink water. The detainee says no. SGT R gives detainee 1 more chance. The detainee says no. SGT R empties water on floor and tells the detainee “you had your chance”. The Corpsman then checks the detainee’s vital signs, they are OK. 0925: SGT A discusses levels of guilt and sin. 0930: SGT A talks about the embarrassment of using a weak cover story and mixes in the “You can make this stop” approach. The detainee remains unresponsive. 0930: CAPT W advises SGT R that the Corpsman can administer IV fluids once Capt W and the Doctor on duty are notified and agree to it. 0940: SGT A begins September 11 approach. 0945: Detainee showed visible signs of interest when SGT A states “all will be revealed on judgment day”. 0955: The detainee demands to go to the bathroom. SGT R states he will not go until he SECRET ORCON asks properly. The detainee says “please may I go to the bathroom?. SGT A allows him. 1000: SGT R asks how the detainee will act on judgment day. Will he be proud, will he beg forgiveness or will he remain silent like a coward, just as he’s doing now. The detainee appeared to be thinking about what SGT R said. 1023: SGT A begins “Good Muslim” approach. 1215: ENS C and IS1 E entered booth. Detainee was not very responsive. 1230: Detainee is offered a fish sandwich, French fries, coke and a yogurt parfait. Request was made to unhand cuff detainee, but there was no key. Detainee did not eat. 1240: Detainee was unhand cuffed and interrogation team ate in front of him. Detainee’s nose turned red when his judgment was questioned. In the past, this has indicated that he was getting upset. 1320: Strap was hung from ceiling in anticipation of the doctor’s arrival. 1330: Detainee was asked if he wanted water. Detainee understands that in order to pray, he must drink water. 1340: Vitals were checked 1345: Detainee was searched 1355: Detainee stated, “I think now we are in Ramadan.” 1405: Detainee agreed to drink water in return for being allowed to pray. 1440: Interrogators reentered room and discussion ensues about returning to his brothers in Cuba. Detainee became somewhat upset and claimed that the treatment he was receiving was illegal. “Evidence of guilt” was reinforced and detainee was introduced to the implications of conspiracy to commit crimes. Detainee was questioned about a statement he made the previous day, “I was only doing what God wanted me to do.” Detainee asked several times if he really said that. When pressed on the issue, detainee stated that he wanted a normal life that what happened was between him and God. Lead interrogator pointed out to detainee that he could be a messenger for God and his cause. Detainee became visibly anxious. 1545: Detainee was silent and unresponsive. He averted his eyes when the 9/11 video was playing. Control interrogation initiated a “judgment day approach.” Detainee’s facial expressions indicated some responsiveness to the approach. 1630: Detainee was allowed to sleep. Detainee was told that he would be awoken and could pray if he drank water. 1745: Detainee awoken and given opportunity to pray and use the restroom. Detainee refused to drink water and consequently was not allowed to pray. 1800: Medical personnel checked vital signs and determined that detainee needed to be hydrated. 1810: Detainee was given two bags of fluids. Detainee stated that he did not want an IV and that he was in control of his body. SGT M asserted that he was in control and that detainee has no choice but to cooperate. 1845: Medical doctor arrives to evaluate detainee to ensure he is physically able to continue. Detainee stated that he wanted to sign a form or a release stating that he did not want any medications. The doctor explained that no such form exists. Detainee was informed that we would not let him die. SECRET ORCON 1900: Detainee was told that he had been abandoned by Al-Qaida and that he should stop trying to protect them. 1915: Detainee used restroom and prayed. 1930: Detainee seemed disturbed that everybody was talking and that he was left here all alone. 2000: Detainee was offered food and told that he has already missed five meals. 2020: Detainee’s vital signs were checked and it was determined that he was in good condition. 2030: Detainee was offered anonymity in exchange for his cooperation. SGT M reminded detainee about false statements that he made in the past. 2045: Detainee was asked if his allegiance to Al-Qaida was greater than his allegiance to God. SGT M emphasized that detainee has choices and that detainee was responsible for his current condition. 2100: Discussion turned to the Koran. SGT M asked detainee to show him in the Koran where it authorizes the use of terrorism. 2115: Detainee said he was cold and the AC was turned off. 2205: Detainee used restroom and asked if he wanted food or water. 2315: Medical personnel checked vitals signs. All vital signs were normal. 2330: Detainee began to cry. 2400: Pressure wrap was put on detainee’s feet to combat the swelling. Detainee was put to bed. 25 November 2002 0400: Woke detainee and corpsman took vitals. Corpsman advised SGT R that detainee must take oral liquids within one hour or detainee will be given IV solution. SGT R provided SGT A with a bottle of powdered Tang mixed with water in order to provide electrolytes. SGT A advised detainee that he must drink bottle or he’ll get another IV. She offered the incentive of morning prayer if he drank. Detainee refused. SGT A began with a “your mission” approach. SGT A asks detainee “what do you think is God’s mission for you”, “you have a mission to share God’s message.” Detainee was unresponsive. 0440: SGT A again advised detainee that he must drink or get an IV. 0445: Corpsman tried several times to get IV into the detainee without success. The corpsman stated that the detainee’s dehydration was causing his veins to roll in his arm. The corpsman succeeded in getting a IV in the top of the hand but the IV stopped flowing. The corpsman retried the IV in the hand but was unsuccessful. The doctor was called to make a trip to perform an assessment. 0600: To follow up on “Gods message”, SGT R showed 9-11 DVD. SGT R stood behind detainee and whispered in his ear , “What is God telling you right now? Your 19 friends died in a fireball and you weren’t with them. Was that God’s choice? Is it God’s will that you stay alive to tell us about his message?” At that point, detainee threw his head back and butted SGT R in the eye. The 2 MPs in the room wrestled detainee to the ground to regain control. SGT R crouched over detainee and the detainee attempted to spit on him. SGT R stated “Go ahead and SECRET ORCON spit on me. It won’t change anything. You’re still here. I’m still talking to you, and you won’t leave until you’ve given Gods message.” Detainee is put in chair. 0630: SGT A showed circumstantial evidence and told detainee repeatedly that she won’t go away and neither will the evidence. 0645: Doctor attempted to put in IV and was unsuccessful. The doctor left to get more supplies. 0700: SGT A continued circumstantial evidence theme. 0705: Assessment – His reaction to SGT R was a combination of his guilt (possibly at not participating in the attack), his continuous interrogation, and his obvious hatred of SGT R. He was told after the episode that it proves he’s not as weak and mentally ill as he wants us to believe. 0730: Doctor arrived and ran an IV by putting in a temporary shunt to allow continuous IV. 0745: SGT A ran the “already captured and talking” approach. When SGT R entered the booth the detainee reached for the IV. The guard stopped him and he reached again. The guards stopped him and cuffed his hands to the chair so he couldn’t reach the IV. The detainee bent over and bit the IV tube completely in two. The guards strapped him to a stretcher and the corpsman attached a new IV. The detainee struggled through the entire process, but could no longer reach the IV. 0900: SGT A resumed the previous approach. 0915: Detainee requested to go to the bathroom but was given an opportunity to use a bottle instead. He was told he will not be unstrapped. 0940: Detainee was given three and one-half bags of IV. He started moaning and told the MPs he’s willing to talk so he can urinate. SGT A entered the booth and asked the following questions: Who do you work for? (Detainee answered: Al Qaida), Who was your leader? (Detainee answered: Usama bin Laden), Why did you go to Orlando? (Detainee answered: I wasn’t told the mission), Who was meeting you? (Detainee answered: I don’t know), Who was with you on the plane? (Detainee answered: I was by myself). SGT R told detainee he was wasting SGT R’s time. Detainee told SGT A he was willing to drink. 1000: Detainee again said he has to go to bathroom. SGT R said he can go in the bottle. Detainee said he wanted to go to the bathroom because it’s more comfortable. SGT R said “You’ve ruined all trust, you can either go in the bottle or in your pants.” Detainee goes in his pants. SGT A continued approach. 1030: Assessment – Detainee has a greater deal of animosity toward SGT R. He is beginning to understand the futility of his situation. He has to understand that his antics will not stop the interrogation at all. We feel he is slowly realizing that he will not outlast the battle of wills. He is much closer to compliance and cooperation now than at the beginning of the operation. 1110: Interrogation team entered the booth; ENS C (Lead), IS1 E (Control), and a female DOD linguist. Lead attempted to engage detainee in conversation but detainee was unresponsive. 1115: Detainee requested to use the restroom. When offered a bottle he said that he wanted to go outside. Control told him he could not, he would have to use the bottle. Detainee agreed. As preparations were being made control was talking about his behavior and how to get off the gurney, detainee urinated in his pants. SECRET ORCON 1130: Lead began talking with detainee. Detainee began moaning and turning his head from right to left. 1140: Detainee in clear voice said that he needed to use the restroom. He engaged in clear and articulate conversation about getting off the gurney. 1200: Detainee said that he would eat. 1210: Detainee released from gurney and sat in chair. He ate two bites of meal and said it was enough. Control said he promised to eat the whole meal. Detainee ate the whole MRE. 1235: Detainee taken to restroom. He was told to empty himself completely. Detainee then washed and changed clothing. 1250: Detainee was given an opportunity to pray. 1320: Interrogation team entered room and detainee engaged in conversation regarding his statement about being Al Qaida. He said that he was mad at the guards and under much pressure. 1335: Detainee requested a second MRE as he was still hungry. He said he would end the hunger strike to stop the IVs. Lead kept small talk going. 1340: Detainee began crying hard spontaneously. 1350: Detainee said that when he came to Orlando he was turned away due to a visa problem. He said that he was coming on his own and was not Al Qaida. He said he did not know Usama bin Laden. He said “I don’t know what God wants.” Lead talked about the oath to Usama bin Laden and the detainee sat in silence listening intently. He said he knows nothing about Usama bin Laden. 1420: Detainee requested a third MRE. He was given an MRE and drank half a bottle of water. Detainee slowly engaged less and less while he ate. Detainee became evasive on most simple of requests. 1445: Detainee said “After I ate I feel better and will not talk.” 1500: Detainee stated “You are working with the devil. You can take me back to my brothers. I will not eat anymore. I will not drink anymore and I am not going to talk anymore.” 1505: Detainee began crying and praying. 1520: Detainee began talking about his situation. He continued to engage but much less. 1543: Break 1605: Resumed with detainee engaging very little. 1715: Team exited for a break. Control returned and began 9-11 theme. 1735: Detainee given opportunity to pray. He wanted to check if the sun was down himself but was refused. 1745: Control re-entered and continued 9-11 theme until relieved. Detainee did not speak but was actively listening and viewed all photos. 1800: Third shift commenced interrogating detainee. 1805: Detainee claimed he was innocent and that everything was just a coincidence. 1807: Detainee claimed that he admitted to be Al-Qaida because of the intense psychological pressure 1815: Detainee asserted his innocence and expressed remorse over the terrorist attacks 1820: Circumstantial evidence theme 1840: 9/11 video SECRET ORCON 1850: SGT B takes over interrogation and goes over the Manchester Document 1900: GWOT theme 1915: Detainee asked about Ramadan 1935: SGT M continues GWOT theme 1945: Break. Detainee refused both food and water. 2000: Detainee began to cry while watching 9/11 video 2100: Detainee claimed to have been pressured into making a confession 2130: Detainee requested to go back to Cuba 2135: Detainee refused to talk about his mission, the one that was between him and God. 2150: Detainee went to the restroom 2205: Manchester Document – security plans 2230: Futility and self-inflicted suffering 2320: Detainee refused food and water 2400: Detainee was checked by medical personnel and was allowed to rest 26 November 2002 0400: SGT R wakes detainee- MPs take detainee to bathroom- he is searched and cuffed to chair. Detainee takes a couple sips of water. SGT A advises detainee that a bottle of water is much easier than a bag. 0405: SGT A begins by quoting a verse from Qoran. Detainee is awake, but completely unresponsive. 0425: SGT A uses “ Manchester Document” theme, explains to detainee how he uses interrogation resistance techniques. Detainee is unresponsive; he has yet to speak a word. SGT R makes detainee stand up to avoid sleeping. 0430: SGT R states that because he (SGT R) is such a kind-hearted guy, he’ll let detainee sit down, but detainee will stand again if he falls asleep. 0440: SGT R makes detainee stand again to avoid sleep. 0445: SGT A explains how detainee is not mentally sick, he simply feels guilty. 0457: SGT R allows detainee to sit down. 0505: SGT A tells detainee that no one feels sorry for him; he has brought this on himself. Detainee takes two sips of water. Corpsman checks vitals. Guards take detainee on walk to wake him up. Detainee has not spoken a word. 0515: Detainee is returned to chair. SGT A gives Arabic greeting detainee returns it. Detainee says he’s mentally sick. SGT A explains to everyone in room how detainee is using Al-Qaida handbook. Corpsman rechecks vitals. 0545: Detainee is stood up for 2 minutes to avoid sleep. 0550: SGT R makes detainee stand up to avoid sleep for two minutes. 0555: SGT R makes detainee stand up to avoid sleep. 0620: SGT A allows detainee to sit down. SGT R explains the difference between his will and God’s will. Detainee asks to pray. SGT A says, “You can pray after you drink water” Detainee says he is fasting. SGT A doesn’t allow prayer. 0630: Detainee begins to chant. SGT R says, “If you continue to chant, I’ll turn on the music” Detainee stops chanting. 0645: interrogators take a break. Corpsman states we need to elevate left hand to alleviate swelling. Hand is cuffed above hand with a soft strap. No tension is on SECRET ORCON the arm. Detainee states he doesn’t want his hand tied up. “I will take responsibility for my hand” SGT A states “I’m glad you are taking responsibility for your hand. Not drinking caused the swelling.” 0700: SGT A covers circumstantial evidence theme. 0730: SGT R covers detainee’s personal failures. 0745: Doctor gives detainee checkup – vitals are good – shunt is cleaned – swelling in hand has gone down. 0800: SGT A covers “What we know” theme. 0820: SGT R covers “Failures” with more emphasis. 0850: SGT A allows detainee to sleep for 30 minutes. Detainee has spoken very little through the session and keeps falling asleep. The 30 minutes may help him engage a little more. After a brief discussion, interrogators decided to let detainee sleep until 1000 hoping to improve participation. 1005: SGT R wakes up detainee. Detainee goes to bathroom and is searched. 1010: SGT A gives “Futility” approach. 1045: SGT R runs a harsh pride & ego down approach. ENS C (as rehearsed earlier) comes in and asks SGT R what he is doing. ENS C says “Don’t talk to him like that, he’s a human being.” SGT R says “Human beings don’t kill 3000 people” and storms out. 1100: Second shift interrogation team enters booth – ENS C (lead) and IS1 E (control). Lead begins speaking to detainee but the detainee looks down and away. 1130: Detainee continues the silent conduct. Lead leaves and control instructs detainee to stand for ten minutes to stretch and wake up. 1150: Lead re-enters but subject continues not to engage in conversation. Lead runs “Circumstantial Evidence” theme. Medical checks detainee’s circulation. 1245: Detainee offered food and water. Detainee refuses. Team ate outside of detainee’s presence. 1330: Control enters and offers water. Detainee says he is fasting due to Ramadan. Detainee requested to pray and was told he could only pray if he drinks water. Detainee continues to refuse water but exchanges in dialogue with control. Detainee was allowed 10 minutes to pray. Medical removes shunt from arm. 1400: Lead continues to try to engage detainee in conversation. Detainee unresponsive. 1600: Detainee laid down with feet elevated due to swelling of feet. Detainee slept for 45 minutes. 1720: Detainee told it is time for prayer but he must drink water first. Detainee took one sip but was told he must drink it all. Detainee refused to drink water. 1800: SGT B began interrogation. Detainee refused to speak. Muslims in America theme was introduced. 1805: Levels of guilt was introduced. 1810: Detainee refused food and water 1835: SGT M takes over the interrogation. P&E down was employed (ie You look like hell. Do you want to see me everyday and pray on the floor where you urinated?) 1845: Manchester Document/Futility- The Al-Qaida training manual was written by somebody who never went through an interrogation. SECRET ORCON 1850: Why doesn’t Usama bin Laden use his children, or why does he not participate in suicide missions? Al-Qaida is falling apart theme/futility. SGT M reviewed with detainee the slips that he made. 1905: Manchester Document theme/futility 1930: P&E down 1940: SGT B takes over interrogation 2010: Detainee drinks a bottle of water and is allowed to pray. Comparison is made between idol worship and swearing Bay’a to Usama bin Laden. 2100: Detainee uses the latrine, walks around outside, and does knee bends to get the blood circulating. Medical check. Detainee checked out medically 2110: Muslims in America theme 2200: SGT M takes over interrogation 2230: Manchester Document theme/futility – Did you see how quickly the United States took over Afghanistan and how quickly the Jihadist fled the country or surrendered. 2235: Detainee became very uncomfortable with SGT M’s hand on his shoulder and tried to move it. Detainee seemed very disgusted at SGT M 2300: Detainee proclaims his innocence and requested that SGT M stop talking about Islam. (ie Usama bin Laden raped Islam. UBL hijacked Islam) Detainee stated, “If you interrogate me in the right way and the right position… you might find some answers. 2308: Detainee claimed that the interrogations are based on malice, hate, and jealousy. He said, “The treatment is wild and animalistic. Everybody has limits. Once those limits are crossed, what is somebody suppose to do?” 2310: Detainee said, “If I told the truth, everybody would get mad. If you interrogated me correctly… maybe if you rested and I rested… One interrogator after another… God and his angels see what is happening.” 2315: Detainee was on the verge of breaking 2339: Detainee shut down and medical personnel check detainee. Detainee used the restroom 2400: Interrogation ended. Medical check. Detainee was walked around the room for five minutes before going to bed to get his blood circulating. Detainee’s feet were elevated to reduce swelling in his feet. 27 November 2002 0400: SGT R (control) wakes detainee. Detainee goes to bathroom. MPs walk detainee around to wake him up and get fluids from IV to move. His feet have swollen due to excess fluid. SGT A (lead) begins Manchester Document. 0415: Detainee asked to pray at sunrise. Lead told him that he must drink _ bottle of water. Detainee held his hands up and readily accepted the water. 0510: Lead started playing 9-11 video. Detainee asked to go to bathroom half way through the video. Lead told him he would have to wait because she thinks he just asks for bathroom breaks just to get a mental break. Detainee did not ask to go to bathroom again. SECRET ORCON 0610: Video over. Detainee prayed and taken to bathroom. Detainee stated he was constipated. Corpsman states detainee is impacted and needs to drink three bottles of water or the detainee will be given an enima. 0640: Control explains the enima procedure. Control begins circumstantial evidence theme with “you’re a failure approach”. Detainee’s body language indicated he was becoming angry. Control nicknames detainee “Mo”. 0800: Doctor checks vitals – O.K. Lead starts Saudi Government theme and Al Qaida falling apart and talking theme. Lead covers circumstantial evidence theme in soft but stern voice. Detainee appears to be listening to lead. 0905: Detainee goes to bathroom and is walked around to stay awake. 0925: Lead starts “failure” approach with Al Qaida falling apart theme. 1000: Control puts detainee in swivel chair at MAJ L’ssuggestion to keep him awake and stop him from fixing his eyes on one spot in booth. Detainee struggled with MP when MP moved chair. Control used “onion” analogy to explain how detainee’s control over his life is being stripped away. Control gives detainee three facts: we are hunting down Al Qaida every day, we will not stop until they are captured or killed, we control every aspect of your life. Detainee did not speak but became very angry with control. 1100: Detainee awakened and taken to the restroom. 1200: Interrogation team entered booth. ENS C (lead), IS1 E (control) and a female DOD linguist. Lead made polite conversation but detainee did not engage. Detainee asked for prayer. Was told it was not time yet. Detainee was offered water but refused. Detainee said he was fasting. 1225: Team brought in a home cooked Arab meal and offered to detainee. Detainee declined to eat and team ate in front of him. 1245: Detainee asked for prayer. He was told he would have to drink water. Detainee took a small drink and was told he would have to take the whole bottle. He finished the bottle and was allowed to pray. 1315: Detainee taken to bathroom. He stated that he made a small bowel movement. 1340: Detainee asked to eat and was offered the homemade meal. Control entered room and displayed agitation that detainee was now eating (a rehearsed event). 1400: Lead and detainee engaged in small talk about prayer. 1415: Medical visited detainee regarding constipation. Detainee was offered a suppository rub but he refused, saying he wanted an oral stool softener. 1440: Detainee asked to use the bathroom and was taken. 1500: Lead began speaking with detainee about prayer and Islam. 1600: Detainee complained of pain in head, and was offered a nap. 1715: Detainee was taken to bathroom. 1725: Interrogators offered to let detainee pray. 1800: SGT B began interrogation by talking about the numerous slip-ups that detainee has made since returning to Camp X-Ray. 1845: Detainee requested water and drank _ bottle 1900: Detainee used latrine and exercised. 1915: Interrogation team discussed the irony of Usama bin Laden choosing the name Al- Qaida (The Base) for his organization. Interrogation team took the position that God and the Koran should be the base and the foundation in everybody’s life. SECRET ORCON 2000: SGT M took over interrogation. Detainee became very agitated and yelled at SGT M for about five minutes. Detainee was restrained. SGT M continually stated that UBL’s mission was unrighteous and misguided and continually asked detainee who he worked for in Al-Qaida. 2030: Detainee drank water and went to the latrine. 2110: 9/11 Video was played for detainee. He became very agitated and violent. He tried to kick the DVD player and assault SGT M. MP had to restrain detainee. SGT M agitated detainee by grasping his shoulder and asking him the following two questions: Who did you work for in Al-Qaida? What was Al-Qaida doing in America? 2130: Detainee was sent to the restroom, but tried to resist. 2140: Detainee refused stool softener medication. 2145: SGT M initiated the Al-Qaida Falling Apart theme. 2200: SGT B continued with Al-Qaida Falling Apart theme and introduced detainee to the victims of 9/11. At this point, SGT B was very firm with detainee and took the moral high ground. SGT B expressed his disgust for detainee and accused detainee of being “unclean” because of his malicious intentions and desires to kill innocent men, women, and children. Detainee took great offense to being accused of being unclean and accused SGT B of not knowing what a harsh word he used. 2245: Detainee went to the latrine and exercised 2300: Detainee took the stool softener medication 2315: SGT M took over the interrogation. 2320: Detainee requested that SGT M stop saying that the Al-Qaida raped the Koran. He also said, “God is not Al-Qaida and the Koran cannot be raped.” 2325: SGT M read several passages out of the Koran that condemned Al-Qaida. 2342: Detainee spit on SGT M after SGT M said, “This was the reason (referring to the attacks of September 11) of your miserable existence; to go to the United States and kill innocent people.” Detainee also accused SGT M of working with the Jinn. 2350: Detainee proclaimed his innocence 2400: Medical personnel check detainee’s vital signs. Detainee went to sleep. 28 November 2002 0400: SGT R (control) woke detainee up. Detainee drank _ bottle of water, goes to bathroom and walks. Corpsman checks vitals. Detainee’s feet appear more swollen than yesterday. Detainee refused aspirin (offered to help reduce swelling). SGT A (lead) asks detainee about the kicking and spitting incident the night before. Lead explains how detainee has no control. 0415: Lead begins Al Qaida falling apart theme, goes into pride and ego down. Detainee was repeatedly shown picture of Bin Al Shibh and asked why Bin Al Shibh’s life was viewed as being more valuable than his. Detainee told that Bin Al Shibh was viewed as a future leader. Lead wondered out loud why Bin Al Shibh is better than detainee, if Saudis are supposed to be better than Yemenis. SECRET ORCON Detainee was told he should show Bin Al Shibh respect because he is better than detainee. 0530: Lead began asking about detainee’s family and asking what happened in his household that produced a terrorist. Lead also talked about pictures of 9-11 victims on the wall, focusing on children. Detainee still won’t look at lead. Detainee was told that if God keeps track of your sins, he would have millions so he should not be concerned about something as small as looking at a woman. 0615: Detainee told that he would be going to the bathroom. He said he didn’t have to go, but was told that he would go because we wanted him to. 0630: When control entered booth, detainee stated in English “Excuse me sergeant, I want to pray.” Control said “Have you earned prayer? I know you have a lot to ask forgiveness for, but I already told you that you have to earn it.” Detainee says “Please, I want to pray here” (pointing to floor next to his chair). Control responds no. 0635: Detainee placed in swivel chair. As control talked about victims’ pictures on wall, MPs rolled detainee to each picture. Particular attention was paid to the children. Control asked “Are these the faces of evil?” Detainee struggled with MPs during his stay in swivel chair. Detainee gets explanation of use of enima – seems embarrassed. 0700: Control gives Arabic lesson to detainee. Control writes the Arabic words for “liar” ,”coward”, and “failure” on the wall. Control asks detainee “are you a liar? Are you a failure? Are you a coward? Yes you are.” Detainee seemed surprised at control’s knowledge of Arabic. Control did this in response to detainee’s earlier use of english. Detainee said nothing during this session but showed apparent signs of anger toward the theme. 0740: Control takes break. Medical shows up and checks vitals. Detainee takes walk. Control asks in Arabic “how are you Mohammed?” Detainee responds in arabic “not bad”. 0800: Lead begins session, returning to Al Qaida falling apart. Asks detainee why Bin Al Shibh is better than him. 1041: After revisiting words written on the wall by control, detainee said (paraphrased) “You are using those words against me and they are hurting me. There’s no need to say those things to me. No man would accept those words.” 1125: Detainee awakened. 1150: Interrogation team entered the booth. ENS C (lead), IS1 E (control), and a female DOD linguist. Lead made small talk about family. Detainee non-responsive. 1205: Took pictures of 9-11 victims down. 1220: Offered water for prayer. At first detainee rejected but then accepted. 1240: Bathroom break. 1300: Subject was given cheeseburger and MRE. He had some worry if the burger was O.K. for him to eat, he finally decided it was. 1330: Detainee spoke with lead for a period of time but then began whining so lead left. 1400: Taken to bathroom and walked 10 minutes. 1430: Control entered room and started 9-11 theme. Detainee professed his innocence. Theme was switched to circumstantial evidence. SECRET ORCON 1500: Detainee asked for bathroom break and was refused as he was using it as a ploy to interrupt interrogation. 1515: Detainee taken to bathroom and walked 10 minutes. 1540: Control re-entered, continued circumstantial evidence, then switched to 9-11. 1645: Detainee requested prayer. He was told it was not time. 1700: Detainee was told it was time for prayer and was offered water. Detainee refused the water. Detainee was then taken to the bathroom and walked 10 minutes. He then said he wanted prayer and would drink. He was told that he could have the water, however the time for prayer had passed. 1750: Detainee exercised and refused food and water. SGT B began interrogation 1840: Detainee refused food and water 1900: Detainee went to the latrine 1945: SGT M took over interrogation 2000: Detainee went to the latrine and drank two bottles of water to avoid get an enema 2020: Detainee exercised by doing knee bends. SGT M implemented SPC P’s “Mohammad the Slave” theme. Detainee stated that he is God’s slave. Circumstantial evidence theme. 2100: Detainee exercised and used the latrine 2115: Interrogation team left detainee to watch 9/11 video 2200: SGT M taped pictures of the 9/11 victims on detainee’s body 2305: Detainee proclaimed his innocence and said he would pass a polygraph test. 2230: Detainee went to the latrine 2340: Detainee exercised 2350: Medical check 2400: Detainee drank one bottle of water, used the latrine, and went to bed. 29 November 2002 0400: New linguist assigned to team. SGT R (control) wakes detainee. Corpsman advises detainee he need to drink three bottles of water of get an enema. After some resistance, detainee drinks one and a half bottles of water. Detainee walks for 15 minutes. SGT A (lead) begins approach. 0415: Run Manchester document theme and muslims in America. 0600: Detainee does not ask for anything, but waits for control to enter room and asks to pray. Drinks one half bottle of water. 0610: Detainee taken to bathroom and exercised. 0645: Control begins Arabic lesson. Explains detainee is a student and control is teacher. Detainee drinks one bottle of water. 0730: Doctor checks detainee. Tells detainee that if detainee doesn’t have a bowel movement, detainee will get an enema. Doctor says detainee’s feet look better. 0745: Control continues student/teacher approach. 0800: Control asks detainee, “are you a liar?” Detainee replies no. Control, “Then why did you tell me you’ve never been to the U.S.? Here’s the proof.” Controls shows circumstantial evidence of visit. Control tells detainee that he will show detainee how to embrace the truth. Detainee did not say anything else but paid SECRET ORCON close attention to control. Control gave commands at random times to stand and sit. Detainee complied. 0915: Detainee taken to bathroom. Lead begins pride and ego down approach. 1000: Detainee taken to bathroom. Base communication workers arrive to install command post phone lines, so detainee could not be walked. 1010: Lead resumes approach. Detainee began to fall asleep and was told to stand. When guard tried to teach detainee where to stand, detainee pushed guard. Other guards entered room and regained control. Detainee tried to complain, but lead told detainee that he might as well be speaking an alien language because no one wants to hear what he says. 1040: Lead laughed at detainee and this seemed to infuriate the detainee. Detainee told he must realize he has no control. 1100: Detainee used the latrine 1125: 2nd Shift entered the booth. Detainee would not engage in conversation but would make eye contact. 1200: Detainee prayed, walked, and used latrine 1220: Detainee refused lunch and stated that he was on a food and water strike 1320: Detainee used latrine and checked by medical 1440: Detainee exercised and used latrine. Detainee asked for a nap and was refused. 1500: Interrogators entered the room 1550: Detainee was given the chance to use latrine 1648: Detainee was offered prayer time if he would drink water. Detainee refused water 1650: Detainee used latrine and exercised 1700: Detainee returned to booth 1725: Detainee refused MRE. 1755: Interrogation session ended 1800: Shift 3 began interrogation 1920: Detainee refused food 1935: Detainee used latrine 1940: Detainee exercised 2100: Detainee used latrine 2105: Detainee refused food and water 2145: Detainee exercised 2400: Detainee refused water and was checked by medical personnel. Medical personnel indicated that detainee is getting very close to being dehydrated. Detainee complained of being dizzy and having a headache. Detainee went to bed. 30 November 2002 0402: First shift begins. Detainee awakened and sent to bathroom. Corpsman checked detainees vitals and determined that if the detainee didn’t drink any water he would need an IV. 0415: Detainee refused water. 0420: Interrogation began with lead running pride and ego down. Enforced control of detainee approach. 0530: Detainee refuses water, IV is started. Detainee offers no resistance. SECRET ORCON 0540: Detainee taken to bathroom. While in bathroom, “My shame causes me to look at the floor” was written on the floor in the interrogation booth. 0600: Detainee given another IV bag. Lead suggested the detainee elected this procedure because he wants people to feel sorry for him. Detainee stated that he didn’t choose IV. Lead stated that he did because he wasn’t drinking water. 0715: Detainee taken to bathroom. 0740: Interrogator began showing pictures of places in Saudi Arabia informing the detainee that he will never see these places again. Detainee gave indications he was near tears, then composed himself. 0830: Interrogator began 9-11 theme. Talked about innocent children victims. Detainee stated that he didn’t believe the person who wrote the information about the victims. Detainee made to wear sign that stated “I am going to hell because I am full of hate” 0915: Detainee taken to bathroom. Detainee received another IV bag. Shown 9-11 video. Detainee protested about the music on the video. 1000: Detainee taken to bathroom and walked. Detainee given another IV bag. 1030: Interrogator continued 9-11 theme with volume turned up high. 1105: First shift ended. 1115: Second shift began. 1140: Detainee taken to bathroom and exercised, allowed to wash hands and pray. 1220: Detainee offered food and water. Detainee rejected the MRE and waited until the lead had started eating to say that he was now ready to eat. The lead did not give the detainee the MRE because he had rejected the food when it was offered and would not allow the detainee to manipulate the situation. Detainee then told lead not to bring food anymore. 1330: Detainee given 1-1/2 hour nap 1500: Detainee woken and taken to bathroom. Detainee was shown video of UBL laughing about the hijackers not knowing their mission. Detainee recounted cover story about buying used cars in the U.S. again. 1635: Break. Detainee continued cover story about buying used cars in the U.S. but was caught denying information he had just spoken about knowing A. T. 1750: Detainee taken to bathroom and exercised. 1925: Detainee used the latrine. Third shift started by asserting control over the detainee by making him exercise. 2020: Detainee refused food and water 2035: Detainee refused water 2040: Medical evaluation determined an enema was necessary. 2045: Detainee received an enema and had his first bowel movement in many days 2100: Detainee exercised. 2200: Detainee ate one complete MRE and drank 1/3 bottle of water 2300: Detainee used latrine 2345: 3rd Shift ended 01 December 2002 SECRET ORCON 0400: Detainee awakened and sent to bathroom. Corpsman checked detainee’s feet for swelling and wraps feet to avoid irritation from cuffs. Detainee exercised for 10 minutes. 0420: Detainee eats MRE and drinks water. 0445: Interrogator begins circumstantial evidence theme. Detainee made consistent eye contact, but did not speak. 0600: Detainee taken to bathroom and exercised. Detainee asked guards to pray when control left the room. Control told detainee that he could not ask anyone other than the interrogator for anything. 0630: Interrogator continues circumstantial evidence theme. 0745: Detainee stated that he is on strike from food and water again. Corpsman administers IV. Detainee’s head is restrained by MP to prevent detainee from biting the IV. 0900: Detainee asked to have IV removed – denied. Detainee given one hour nap. 1000: Detainee taken to bathroom. 1101: Second shift began. Detainee taken to bathroom and exercised. 1115: Interrogation began. Detainee mostly unresponsive during discussion of 9-11 victims. Detainee asked for prayer and was denied since it wasn’t time. 1200: Detainee taken to bathroom and exercised. Offered water and prayer time. Detainee drank one full bottle and prayed. 1240: Detainee ate one MRE and drank one half bottle of water. 1300: Detainee taken to bathroom and exercised. Doctor checked vitals – O.K. 1400: Detainee taken to bathroom and exercised. 1450: Detainee taken to bathroom and exercised. 1615: Detainee taken to bathroom and walked for 10 minutes. 1715: Detainee taken to bathroom and walked for 10 minutes. Detainee drank one bottle of water and prayed. 1800: Interrogation began. Detainee offered food and water, detainee refused. Detainee stated that his treatment was making him forget things. Detainee was questioned about his cover story and continued to deny knowing A. T. 1930: Detainee taken to latrine and exercised. Control started circumstantial evidence theme centering on the 9-11 hijackers. Detainee stated that if he had been with that group on that day, he would have been the pilot. 2115: Detainee taken to latrine and exercised. Control started talking about the Koran and the detainee became angry saying that the interrogator didn’t know anything about the Koran. 2230: Detainee taken to latrine and exercised. Control compared the Manchester document to the teachings of the Koran. Detainee remained quiet. 2400: Third shift ended. 02 December 2002 0400: First shift begins. Detainee taken to bathroom and exercised. 0425: Lead began session. Detainee complained that guards were not nice. 0530: Detainee offered water – refused. Lead continued with circumstantial evidence theme. SECRET ORCON 0630: Detainee taken to bathroom and exercised. Control started session with Arabic lesson and explained how Saudis go to Bahrain for alcohol and prostitutes. Continues we are in control approach. 0800: Detainee taken to bathroom and offered water. 0900: Detainee woken up and offered MRE – refused. 0910: Lead cleaned detainee’s face and combed hair and beard. Showed 9-11 video. 1000: Lead and control explained that detainee has no control. 1030: Control began “birthday party” and placed party hat on detainee. Detainee offered birthday cake - refused. Interrogators and guards sing “God bless America”. Detainee became very angry. 1100: Second shift began. Detainee taken to bathroom and exercised for ten minutes. 1115: Control began talking to detainee to calm him. 1145: Lead enter booth and began talking to detainee. Detainee unresponsive. 1215: Detainee offered water and prayer. Detainee refused. Detainee taken to bathroom and exercised for ten minutes. 1230: Detainee offered food and declined, then reconsidered and asked to eat. Detainee ate one MRE after the interrogators decided to allow him to eat if he asked nicely. 1330: Detainee taken to bathroom and exercised ten minutes. Detainee unresponsive. 1500: Detainee taken to bathroom and exercised ten minutes. Lead runs approach about holes in cover story. 1600: Detainee taken to bathroom and exercised ten minutes. Lead continues approach and detainee tries to negotiate by saying that he will talk if he is returned to his brothers in Cuba. 1715: Detainee drank one bottle of water and prayed. 1730: Detainee taken to bathroom and exercised. 1800: Third Shift began interrogation with Al-Qaida Falling Apart theme. Detainee ate one Hostess Cupcake with interrogation team. 1845: SGT M began took over interrogation 1850: Detainee exercised 1940: Detainee ate one full MRE and drank _ bottle of water 1950: SGT B employed Circumstantial Evidence theme. 2010: Detainee exercised 2015: SGT M took over interrogation 2035: Interrogation team took a break 2100: Detainee exercised 2115: Detainee finished exercising 2120: SGT B employed Manchester Document, focusing on the beating and killing of hostages. 2135: SGT M took over interrogation and employed Futility and Saudi Government Left him themes 2200: Detainee began to tell his cover story again after SGT M questioned asked him about his future and what it would be like living in jail for the rest of his life. Detainee had been silent all night; therefore he was allowed to retell certain parts of his story again. Detainee provided more general information about alleged contacts in Saudi Arabia. Detainee was evasive about his family and would only request that Saudi Government ministries be contacted to verify his story. SECRET ORCON Detainee appeared nervous when asked if he had connections to Saudi royal family. 2300: SGT B questioned detainee extensively about his business plan. It became readily apparent that he knows very little about business and international trade. 2345: SGT M questioned detainee about his family. Detainee was very evasive and refused to provide anything other than his family’s PO box. BSCT observation indicated that detainee was lying during entire exchange. 000: Detainee used latrine and went to bed. 03 December 2002 0400: Lead woke detainee up and sent him to the bathroom. Detainee was exercised. 0425: Lead began session with circumstantial evidence theme and “you are a failure” approach. 0615: Detainee drank water and was sent to the bathroom and exercised. 0630: Control began session on circumstantial evidence theme with “you have no control” approach. Detainee was attentive but unresponsive. 0800: Detainee taken to bathroom. Refused meal stating that he is fasting. 0830: Lead and control started “tell the truth” approach using circumstantial evidence theme. 0930: Interrogators gave class to new MPs in view of detainee stating the resistance training, clouded thinking, series of mistakes, and attempts to gain control that the detainee has exhibited. Interrogators ran puppet show satirizing the detainee’s involvement with Al Qaida. 1040: Detainee was given a nap. 1100: Detainee awakened, taken to the bathroom, and exercised 10 minutes. 1120: 2nd shift interrogation team entered booth, ENS C, (Lead), IS1 E (Control) and a female DOD linguist. Discussion was aimed at calming detainee down as he was upset. Detainee was mostly unresponsive. 1210: Detainee given head break and 10 minutes exercise. 1225: Detainee was offered water and refused. He was refused “Salat.” 1235: Detainee offered lunch and refused. 1330: Detainee given head break and 10 minute exercise. 1440: Detainee given head break and 10 minute exercise. 1550: Detainee given head break and 10 minute exercise. 1600: Detainee placed down for nap. 1900: Detainee asked for bathroom break, granted. 2000: Phase 1B begins. Detainee awakened and told he is being taken back to Cuba, hooded, and loaded into ambulance. Ambulance drove a few feet and detainee was taken out and into a different interrogation booth. ENS S lead interrogator with a female DOD linguist. ENS S was in civilian clothes and ran an approach to plant seeds in the detainee’s mind on how to end the interrogations. The approach centered around how Al Qaida had destroyed Islam and the detainee’s life had been spared because it was now his jihad to tell the world about how 9-11 was wrong, and help rebuild Islam. SECRET ORCON 2040: Detainee hooded and taken to new primary interrogation booth that was decorated with photos of 9-11 victims, the U.S. flag, flags of coalition forces in the global war on terrorism, and red lighting. Detainee was subject to loud music for 20 minutes. 2100: Hood was removed and U.S. National Anthem was played. CAPT W was lead interrogator with the same female DOD linguist. 2105: Detainee’s head and beard were shaved with electric clippers. Detainee started resistance when beard was shaved and MPs had to restrain. Shaving was halted until detainee was once more compliant. LTC P supervised shaving. No problems occurred. Photos were taken of detainee when the shaving was finished. 2130: CAPT W began bad muslim theme. Detainee said CAPT W was oppressed. 2330: Corpsman checked detainee’s vitals – O.K. 2345: Detainee hooded and walked for 10 minutes. 2400: Detainee taken to different interrogation booth where ENS S began asking questions about his mission to Orlando. Detainee unresponsive and did not make eye contact. 04 December 2002 0010: Detainee replied “I don’t know” when asked the question “What is a normal life?” 0100: Detainee offered food and water – refused. Five minutes later detainee said he wanted to eat. Interrogator continued questioning, the told detainee he could now eat. Detainee ate one MRE and drank water. 0115: Interrogator resumed session by telling the detainee the “right” way to interrogate him. 0120: Detainee was told that Usama bin Laden needed bodyguards to protect him from Islam (interrogator was hinting about the Taqfir without using the word) and that detainee’s family was also at risk. Detainee seemed either confused or concerned. 0130: Detainee was hooded and taken back to primary interrogation booth. Loud music was played and the “devil in the smoke” theme was run. 0200: SGT R (lead) and SGT L (control) enter booth. Detainee attempted to gain control by interrupting lead when the futility approach was started. 0300: Detainee offered food and water – refused. Detainee taken to bathroom and walked. 0320: Lead tells detainee Usama bin Laden is making a whore of Islam. Detainee told lead that he is “looking for trouble”. “Arrogant Saudi” approach is run. Detainee was angered by approach. 0400: Cover story is thoroughly mocked. Detainee dislikes theme and states that he will not talk until he is interrogated the proper way. 0515: “Usama bin Laden as a politician” is discussed. Detainee complains about a picture of a 9-11 victim being taped to his trousers – received the “I control all” speech from interrogator. 0615: Detainee told that the truth would get him back to his brothers in Cuba. 0700: Detainee taken to bathroom and put to bed. 1100: Second shift began with IS1 E, SGT A , and a DOD linguist. Detainee was awakened in old interrogation booth by interrogators. SECRET ORCON 1130: Detainee was taken to bathroom and walked for 10 minutes. Moved to primary interrogation booth. Detainee complained that the General had said he should be returned to Cuba. 1230: Detainee was offered food and ate one MRE and drank one bottle of water. 1300: Detainee was taken to bathroom and walked for 10 minutes – complained of dizziness when walking. 1315: Corpsman checked vitals – O.K. Christina Aguilera music played. Interrogators ridiculed detainee by developing creative stories to fill in gaps in detainee’s cover story. 1410: Doctor checked vitals – O.K. 1415: Detainee taken to bathroom and walked 10 minutes. 1540: Detainee taken to bathroom and walked 10 minutes. Detainee was offered water – refused. Circumstantial evidence theme ran. Detainee was asked what would happen to the hijackers souls on judgement day. Detainee responded that all the people in the towers were infidels. 1710: Detainee taken to bathroom and walked 10 minutes. 1740: Doctor checked vitals and determined that detainee was becoming dehydrated. Drew blood to check kidney function. Lab results showed the detainee’s kidney function was normal. 1800: Third shift began with SGT L and SGT M and a DOD linguist. The detainee was given two IVs by the medic. The detainee began to talk when questioned on why he was clean shaven in his passport, and his answer was that he was not a good Muslim at that time. The detainee was bothered by the presence and touch of a female. Detainee tried to get out of the seat and restraints. Rules have changed theme was used. No response. 1900: Detainee was offered food and water he refused. 1920: Medical representative removed the IV. 2003: Detainee went to the latrine and was walked, offered food and water refused. 2102: Detainee was taken to the latrine and was walked. 2200: Detainee had not said a word since 2000 hours. 2300: Detainee performed exercise to reduce swelling of hands and feet. 2330: Detainee was taken to the latrine and walked, and on return he began to talk, in response to him being told that his travel story was weak. 05 December 2002 0001: First shift began. SGT R (lead) and SGT L (control) enter booth with interpreter. Lead follows up with questioning about detainee’s plane ticket. 0025: Control covers used car part of detainee’s cover story. Detainee complains about being tired. 0051: Detainee is exercised and hands are strung loosely above head to reduce swelling from an earlier IV. Detainee is told to stand to improve circulation. 0100: Detainee is offered water – refused. “Al Qaida falling apart; captured; talking” theme is run. “Al Qaida used Islam” theme is run. 0300: Detainee is checked and cleared by corpsman. Sent to bathroom and walked. SECRET ORCON 0330: “What we know” theme was run. Detainee asked to stand up. Was allowed to stand then told to sit down in order to maintain control. 0400: Detainee was told to stand and loud music was played to keep detainee awake. Was told he can go to sleep when he tells the truth. 0420: Detainee was given 30 minute nap since he was unable to stay awake during interrogation. 0450: Control covered detainee’s cover story. 0600: Lead enter booth and told detainee to sit up straight. Detainee would not comply and MPs sat him upright. Detainee told lead that he would only answer questions on his cover story, but did not elaborate any further on the story. Lead begins reclaiming control of session. Detainee is made to stand up and face the American flag while the national anthem is played. Detainee resists MPs as they maintain control. 0700: Detainee asks to go to bathroom. Lead tells detainee he must say “please”. Detainee complies and is taken to bathroom. Detainee asks for prayer – denied. Lead offers food and water – detainee states he is on strike. Detainee put to bed. 1020: Detainee woke up himself and requested to go to bathroom. Was taken to bathroom and walked 10 minutes. 1100: Detainee awakened by 2nd shift interrogation team. Ran “Arrogant Saudi” approach and “Al Qaida destroyed Islam” theme. Detainee unresponsive. 1215: Detainee sent to bathroom and walked for 10 minutes. 1240: Detainee offered food – ate one MRE and drank one bottle of water. A bottle of water was also left with the detainee for him to sip on during the shift. Interrogators began “bad muslim” theme. Ran “circumstantial evidence” theme. 1400: Detainee sent to bathroom and walked 10 minutes. Corpsman checked vitals and changed wraps on ankles. Detainee was O.K. Interrogator began reading from a book of Koranic prayers. Detainee became agitated and yelled for Allah. Detainee tried to kick interrogator and MPs held his legs and hands down. Interrogator began “lonely” theme and detainee lunged at interrogator. MPs regained control of detainee. Detainee stated that his emotions were making him behave badly, then started making odd faces. Interrogators told detainee that they had seen crazy people before and he was not crazy, so detainee stopped making faces. 1545: Detainee taken to bathroom and walked for 10 minutes. 1600: Medical checked vitals – O.K. 1630: Detainee told interrogators that he was in charge now and they would bring him food and water when he wanted and they would let him sleep when he wanted. Interrogators established control over detainee by having him alternately sit and stand. Detainee seemed near crying and was told not to cry on this shift. 1800: Detainee became irritated with the female invading his personal space. He made several attempts to push her away from him with his back because she was standing behind him. Detainee spit at SGT M and the DoD linguist because he was annoyed by the female behind him and they were seated directly in front of him. Detainee was offered water and food. He did not want water or food. 1900: Detainee was given a latrine break. After the latrine break detainee was exercised because he had swelling in his hands and feet. During the walking exercise the SECRET ORCON detainee attempted to injure two guards. Detainee used all of his body weight elbowing one guard and then elbowed the other guard. The guards quickly restrained and secured the detainee to his chair and the interrogation continued. Detainee was offered water but he quickly denied it. The interrogation continued with the theme that the Rules have changed. 1945: Detainee finally decided to eat. He did not drink the water that was given to him with his meal. 2016: Medical representative took vitals of the detainee. She stated that the detainee’s vitals were normal. The interrogation continued with the theme being Saudi Government. The detainee was not responsive nor did he appear concerned with the Saudi Government. 2108: Detainee was taken to the Latrine. He was also offered water but he refused the water. 2225: Detainee became completely quiet, he would stare into space, and he would attempt to put his head down but when commanded to raise his head he would comply. The interrogation continued with the theme of the Manchester Document. 2320: Detainee was escorted to the latrine. 06 December 2002 0001: 1st shift begins. Interrogator talked about Zacarius Mousaui and his capture. Detainee stated that since Mousaui would’ve been the 20th hijacker, he could not be. Detainee also stated that if he had been one of the hijackers, he would’ve gotten into the country. Circumstantial evidence was run. Detainee stated that he couldn’t have applied for a visa in Riyahd three days after the Orlando incident because he was in the U.A.E. 0100: Detainee’s vitals are checked – O.K. Interrogators tried to engage detainee in discussion of falconry. Detainee complained about being asked the same questions, asked to be taken back to Cuba. 0130: Detainee offered water – refused. 0140: Detainee confronted with evidence of another detainee identifying him at a safehouse in Kabul. Detainee accused of being a bodyguard. 0230: Detainee sent to bathroom, walked for 20 minutes. Detainee drank one and a half bottles of water. Corpsman checked vitals – O.K. 0300: Futility approach run. Detainee told this will never end and things will get worse. 0420: Detainee taken to bathroom. 0430: Discussed Saudi royal family and corruption in the middle east with detainee. Detainee states that corruption should be studied and stopped, can start out small and grow. Detainee uses analogy about someone smoking, then drinking, then moving on to drugs. Detainee will not discuss political corruption. Interrogator told him he must be very angry to do what he did. Detainee replied that he is a simple man and is not angry. 0530: Corpsman checks detainee’s IV stint. Detainee was asked how he feels about Al Qaida and replied that he is displeased because they killed innocent people. 0630: Detainee allowed to pray. SECRET ORCON 0700: Detainee taken to bathroom and put to bed. 1100: Detainee awakened, taken to bathroom, and walked 10 minutes. 1115: Interrogation team entered the booth. Loud music was played that included songs in Arabic. Detainee complained that it was a violation of Islam to listen to Arabic music. 1200: Detainee refused a bathroom break and was walked 10 minutes. 1210: Corpsman checked detainee’s vitals – O.K. 1225: Detainee offered food – ate one MRE and drank one bottle of water. Started 9-11 theme. Detainee asked to pray when confronted with photos of child victims and was denied. Interrogators told detainee he was using religion as a tool to escape hard questions. “Al Qaida falling apart” theme was started. Detainee was told God was not with them because He had given detainee to us and helped us defeat Al Qaida and the Taliban. Detainee declared a hunger strike and said he would decide when to eat. Interrogators began “we control all” theme. 1400: Detainee taken to bathroom and walked 10 minutes. Corpsman replaced ankle bandages to prevent chafing from cuffs. Started “Al Qaida used Islam” and “bad muslim” themes. Detainee said “I will tell the truth” and told the interrogator to get out some paper. He also said “I am doing this to get out of here”. Detainee began talking but would not give any information about people other than himself. Detainee talked about traveling to Afghanistan and meeting UBL who gave him money and sent him to America. Detainee also talked about his travel after he was turned away from Orlando. 1600: Detainee allowed to pray after promising to continue cooperating. Detainee asked for air conditioner to be turned off and asked for blanket – both were given. 1610: Detainee offered water and bathroom break – refused. 1715: Detainee allowed to pray. 1730: Detainee ate an apple. Refused water and bathroom break. Detainee’s story began to get vague and had many holes where third party involvement should have happened. Interrogators eventually determined the detainee was veering away from the truth and closed their shift. 1930: Third shift interrogation team enters the booth. The approaches employed were Pride and Ego down, Fear Up Harsh, and Invasion of Space by a Female. The detainee became very violent and irate. Detainee attempted to liberate himself from the chair in order to get away from the female. He struggled for approximately forty minutes attempting to move out of the presence of the female. 2030: Detainee was exercised for approximately fifteen minutes. The Medical Representative checked the detainee’s blood pressure and weight. She cleared the detainee for further interrogation. Detainee refused water and food. Interrogation continued with the theme of Al Qaeda falling apart. The approach that was used during this phase of the interrogation was pride and ego down with an occasional fear up harsh if necessary. 2100: Detainee was sent to latrine. 2115: Detainee was offered food and water once again and he refused. 2150: Detainee was given a latrine break. He was offered food and water and he refused. SECRET ORCON 2230: Again detainee was offered food and water. He refused to eat or drink water. 2320: Detainee stated that he met M. K. in the United Arab Emirate during his travels. He stated that K. was a businessman, 5’10” tall, Afghani, and in his mid to late 30’s. The interrogation team believed this was a lie and the detainee began to stare at the wall quietly as SGT M continued to interrogate detainee using the pride and ego up with a fear up harsh combination. 2340: Medical representative checked the detainee at the request of the Military Police. 07 December 2002 0001: First shift began. Detainee made to stand for the National Anthem. Interrogators began harsh pride & ego down by poking holes in the new cover story and outlining the rules he must live by now. 0100: Detainee taken to porch where he can see foraging banana rats and told that he chose this life with the rats. He is reminded of the good things in life that he chose to leave behind. 0120: Issues arise between MPs and dog handler. CAPT W talks with all parties and resolves issues. 0320: Detainee taken to bathroom and walked for 10 minutes. Corpsman checks vitals – O.K. 0345: Detainee offered food and water – refused. Detainee asked for music to be turned off. Detainee was asked if he can find the verse in the Koran the prohibits music. 0350: Corpsman checks vitals – detainee refuses Motrin and water. Corpsman asked detainee if he has dizziness or a headache – detainee says yes. Corpsman explains it is from lack of water. Vitals show dehydration is beginning. Corpsman calls doctor. 0415: Detainee admits story he told interrogators was false. Stated he told the story because he was under pressure. Detainee was told he chose to be here, and was given the list of decisions he made that brought him here and was told he needs to take responsibility for his actions. Detainee was given an IV by corpsman. Detainee was told that we would not allow him to die. 0515: Detainee offered food and eats peanut butter and crackers. Began “God’s will” approach. Detainee told Al Qaida chose him because he was expendable. Interrogators asked detainee how he could stay in Afghanistan and not see any Taliban personnel. Detainee stated that Taliban people spoke good Arabic. Interrogators revisited falcon story. 0600: Interrogators revisited the new cover story and poked holes in it. 0700: Detainee taken to bathroom and put to bed. 24 HOUR RECUPERATION STAND-DOWN BEGINS 1100: Detainee awakened, taken to bathroom and walked for 10 minutes. Schedule is given to MPs to offer water every hour, take detainee to bathroom and walk every one and a half hours, offer food once per shift, and keep music playing to prevent detainee from sleeping during stand-down. MPs are instructed not to converse SECRET ORCON with detainee except to issue commands. MPs are given log book to log all scheduled activities. 2000: Corpsman checks vitals and finds the detainee’s pulse is unusually slow. Doctor arrives and decides to perform an EKG – leaves to get EKG machine. 2050: Doctor returns and performs EKG. Heartbeat is regular but very slow – 35 bpm. Doctor consults with another doctor. 2130: Decision is made to take detainee to GTMO hospital to perform a CT scan of the detainee’s brain to see if there are any irregularities. 2215: Depart to hospital. 2230: Arrive at hospital and begin CT scan. 2330: Doctors review scan and do not find any conclusive evidence of any conditions, but request the detainee be kept overnight until a radiologist can be flown in to ensure there are no anomalies. Detainee is placed in isolation ward and hooked up to monitor heart rhythm. 08 December 2002 Detainee’s electrolytes are checked and corrected. Potassium was slightly below normal due to not eating. Detainee’s left leg was swollen and an ultrasound was performed to check for blood clots. No blood clots were detected and the detainee’s swelling went down naturally. A radiologist was flown in from Roosevelt Roads and checked the detainee’s CT scan - no anomalies were found. No unusual heart rhythms were recorded by the monitor during the detainee’s stay and his heart rate returned to normal naturally. The detainee slept most of the day between meals. 09 December 2002 0800: Detainee’s checks are all good. Plans are underway for release in the afternoon. 1800: Detainee is hooded, shackled and restrained in a litter for transport to Camp XRay. ENS C rides in the ambulance with the detainee and informs him that he has a choice to make; tell the whole truth and return to his brothers in Cuba or remain silent and return to X-Ray. 1830: Detainee arrives at Camp X-Ray and is returned to interrogation booth. ENS C enters booth with detainee and gives a last chance to tell the whole truth. Detainee is uncooperative and ENS C leaves. CAPT W enters booth and informs the detainee that he had been medically cleared and only he could make it stop, otherwise it would get worse. 1900: Detainee was exercised for good health. He was also offered food and water. He refused the food and water. 2000: Detainee was walked around for improving his circulation and exercise purposes. He was offered food and water but he refused. He was taken to the latrine but he refused to use it. 2030: The detainee’s vitals were checked by the medical representative. She stated that they were normal. The interrogation continued. SECRET ORCON 2100: Detainee was taken to the latrine. He did not refuse to use it because he stated that he had to do number two. He refused water and food. 2145: Detainee replied to question that was posed by SGT M. Detainee had been shown several pictures of little old women that died in the 9/11 terrorist attack. SGT M asked the detainee what could these little old women do? Were they going to drop a bomb or fly a plane into the holy city of Mecca? The detainee shook his head and replied “no”. Later, SGT M asked, do you think the people that are jumping from the burning building are going to go to heaven or hell. The detainee replied with I don’t know. 2240: Detainee was exercised for improved circulation, reduction of swelling in feet and overall good health. Detainee refused water and food. 2340: Detainee was repulsed by the female invasion of his personal space. He made several attempts to stand up in order to prevent her from entering his personal space. He attempted to appeal to SGT M but that was not effective. SGT M continued with fear up harsh until the detainee would give new information but the detainee continued to give old information so, he was silenced (by the interrogation team). Detainee refused water. He was sent to the latrine. 10 December 2002 0000: Interrogation team entered the booth and played the national anthem. Detainee was made to stand and put his hand over his heart. Lead explained rules to detainee. Ran pride and ego down approach. Played loud music to keep detainee awake. 0230: Detainee taken to bathroom and walked. Corpsman checked vitals – O.K. 0300: Detainee offered food and water – eats crackers, peanut butter, and drinks water with koolaid. 0330: Detainee asked about relationships with women and what his mother would think of him. Detainee said the Saudi government knew he was innocent. Interrogators replied that the Saudi government knows he is guilty and that is why he is here. 0400: Lead established control over detainee by instructing him not to speak and enforcing by playing loud music and yelling. Detainee tried to regain control several times by starting to talk about his cover story. Detainee was not listened to. 0530: Detainee was taken to bathroom and walked for 20 minutes. 0600: Futility approach was run. Rules have change theme was run. It can get a lot worse theme was run. Detainee attempted to talk but was silenced by interrogator through yelling and loud music. Detainee cursed interrogator and pleaded his innocence. Circumstantial evidence theme was run. Interrogator turned on the music and left the booth for the last 20 minutes of the shift, detainee screamed for the interrogator to come back as he departed the booth. 0700: Detainee was put to bed. 1030: Detainee woke up on his own and requested to go to the bathroom. He was taken to the bathroom and walked for 10 minutes. SECRET ORCON 1100: 2nd shift began by waking the detainee to music. Interrogators told detainee how happy they were that he was back. Detainee was mostly unresponsive. Reinforced the notion that the detainee would be here a long time. 1215: Detainee was taken to bathroom and walked 10 minutes. Food and water were offered and the detainee ate one MRE and drank a bottle of water. Interrogators engaged the detainee in conversation about marriage and dating. Detainee said that he had a chance to marry but refused. He said that he would like to marry someday. The detainee then stated that he was having emotional problems and needed to see a doctor for this. Detainee stated the Jinns had control of his emotions and only a trained doctor could help him. He stated that he would tell everything to a doctor in the same way that he had previously stated that he would tell all if he was taken back to Cuba. Detainee was told he would have to describe what was wrong before a doctor could be brought in. Detainee became unresponsive upon hearing this. 1400: Detainee was taken to bathroom and walked 10 minutes. Detainee offered water – refused. Interrogators covered the resistance techniques he had used and asked him to perform the “crazy Mohammed” facial expressions again. Detainee began to cry. Interrogators recounted the “emotional Mohammed” from earlier in the session and the detainee became stoic again. 1600: Detainee was taken to bathroom and walked 10 minutes. 1615: Offered water to detainee – refused. Loud music was played and the interrogators began yelling at the detainee. Pride and ego down approach was run. Al Qaida falling apart theme was used. 1715: Offered water to detainee – refused. 1800: Detainee taken to bathroom and exercised 10 minutes. 1830: Detainee became very annoyed with the female invading his personal space. He spit on her several times. He tried to push her away using his head. He attempted to move her chair by using his feet to push her chair away from him. Detainee was offered water but he refused to drink it. 1930: Detainee was offered water but he refused it. He was taken to the latrine. Medical Representative weighed detainee and logged detainee’s weight at 119 pounds. He was 123 pounds with the three piece suit. 2000: Detainee ate two cheese filled pretzels and when he was given his meal he accepted it and began to eat. He devoured all of his MRE. 2030: Detainee was exercised for good circulation and overall good health. He was also taken to the latrine. He was offered water but he refused. 2140: Detainee was offered water; he refused to take the water. He was taken to the latrine; he did not use it. He stood at the door and waited until we allowed him to return to the interrogation booth. 2230: Detainee was taken to bathroom. Detainee urinated on himself as he was being taken to the latrine. Detainee was allowed to clean himself while in the bathroom. He was offered water and refused. 2307: Detainee was exercised. 2339: Medical representative took detainee’s pulse rate and vital signs. She said they were all normal. Detainee was taken to the latrine. He refused water. SECRET ORCON 11 December 2002 0001: Detainee stood and faced the flag for the national anthem. He showed less resistance towards facing the flag than on previous days. Both interrogators began the “pride and ego down approach”. This approach was utilized throughout the session. The lead (SGT R) gave detainee the rules for the session. 1) no talking 2) don’t ask for anything 3) face forward 4) no sleeping. 0050: Detainee refused water 0100: Detainee began to cry during pride and ego down. Detainee was reminded that no one loved, cared or remembered him. He was reminded that he was less than human and that animals had more freedom and love than he does. He was taken outside to see a family of banana rats. The banana rats were moving around freely, playing, eating, showing concern for one another. Detainee was compared to the family of banana rats and reinforced that they had more love, freedom, and concern than he had. Detainee began to cry during this comparison. 0202: Detainee refused water. Detainee was walked for 10 minutes. Control (SSG M) continued “p&e” down approach. Detainee was unresponsive. He appeared to struggle controlling his anger. 0310: Detainee refused water. Walked for 10 minutes. Used bathroom. Vitals checked by medic and within normal limits. 0320: Detainee was agitated at music being played in his presence and attempted to voice his opinion. He was ignored and moved excessively during this time while seated in the chair with his hands clenched in a fist. 0418: Detainee was offered water; he refused the water. Detainee was offered food; He refused the food. Detainee was exercised by walking him around to prevent swelling in his feet. Bandages on legs were replaced with sterile bandages to prevent chafing. 0503: Detainee refused water. Control continued the “pride and ego down approach” using the circumstantial evidence as a theme 0600: Detainee refused water. Detainee was exercised to prevent swelling of his feet. Control and lead continued P&E down approach. 0700: Detainee vitals taken and are within normal limits. Detainee was sent to bathroom. Upon return, he began his four hours of rest. 1100: Detainee was awakened, taken to the bathroom and walked 10 minutes. 1115: Interrogation team enter the booth and started talking about how glad they were that he was back and that they would have a BBQ in his honor. When the detainee stated that he would not want any of that food, the interrogators told him that the BBQ wasn’t for him, it was for everyone else. Interrogators talked about detainee’s loss of freedom. Interrogators held an exorcism to purge the evil Jinns that he claimed were controlling his emotions. Detainee was more responsive after the exorcism. 1200: Detainee was taken to bathroom and walked 10 minutes. Detainee was offered food and water. 1230: Detainee ate one MRE and drank a bottle of water. Interrogators instructed detainee how to mix up the tea and coffee in the MRE. Detainee was drinking the coffee and started ignoring the interrogators, so the interrogators took away the SECRET ORCON detainee’s coffee. The detainee asked for the coffee back several times in the next hour. The lead held the coffee in front of the detainee and when the detainee reached for the coffee, the interrogator poured the coffee on the floor. The detainee seemed to be mad at the interrogators for the remainder of the shift. 1400: Detainee taken to bathroom and walked for 10 minutes. 1530: Detainee taken to bathroom and walked for 10 minutes. The futility approach was run. The detainee was allowed to speak to the linguist for five minutes. The detainee tried to develop rapport with the linguist and the interrogators reentered the booth and ran the futility approach by telling the detainee the linguist was on their side. Control began talking in a low sympathetic tone of voice and spoke to him about his past, present, and possible future. Detainee began to cry. Detainee asked to sleep in a different room and only be interrogated in the present room. Control asked why the detainee would make such a request and detainee replied that control was human. The BSCT observed that the detainee was only trying to run an approach on the control and gain sympathy. 1700: Detainee taken to bathroom and walked for 10 minutes. The interrogators started the BBQ outside the interrogation booth and ate in the booth so the detainee could see them. 1800: Detainee refused water and food. He stared at the ground and wall while humming to himself. The futility approach was run for the entire shift. 1900: Detainee was taken to the latrine. Detainee refused water and food. 1930: An attempt was made to exercise detainee but detainee refused to walk on his own. He attempted to pray as the guards carried the detainee back to the interrogation booth. Detainee complained of feeling dizzy as he held his head in his hands. The medical representative took detainee’s vital signs. They were normal. The medical representative told the detainee that he had to drink water or else he will continue to feel dizzy. The detainee was also told that the next step would be to give him an IV. Detainee still refused to drink water. 1955: Detainee still refuses to drink water or eat some food. Still complaining of being dizzy. 2000: Latrine break for the detainee. No new information was given by the detainee. Detainee was told not to talk because he is not giving any new information. 2100: Detainee refused water. Latrine break for the detainee was given. 2120: Medic took vitals and weight. All normal except it may be necessary to give the detainee several IVs because his vitals although normal at the moment continues to fall. Medic had warned the detainee that if he doesn’t drink water that he will be given several IVs in order to replace the fluids that he has lost. 2200: Latrine break for the detainee. Still refusing to drink water. 2245: Detainee still refusing to drink water. Medical representative took the detainee’s vital signs. They were not good so the detainee was being prepared to receive the needed IVs. 2312: Medical representative had begun to administer the first of three IVs. No new information was given by the detainee. 12 December 2002 SECRET ORCON 0001: Detainee was subjected to white noise (music) waiting for his IV’s to be completed. 0110: Detainee had his 3rd IV removed. He was exercised to improve the circulation to his legs. Detainee used restroom. Detainee had vitals checked, which were within normal limits. Detainee refused water. 0140: Detainee shown video of Taliban Bodies and Die Terrorist Die. 0150: Interrogators gave detainee rules for the evening. 1) No talking. 2) Face forward. 3) Don’t ask for anything. Detainee almost immediately began to speak. The interrogators screamed at detainee until he stopped. Detainee was reminded of his worthlessness as a human being. He was reminded of the fact that his standard of living is less than a Banana rat. While running the Pride and Ego (P/E) down approach, SSG M showed the bottom of his boot to detainee. Detainee had one of the longest emotional outbursts seen yet. He went into a fit of rage yelling insults in English and Arabic to interrogators. He began to move his arms and legs in his chair as if to want to break away from the shackles and attack. He then began to make statements about his story. He was cut off and told to think about what he wanted to say. He was left in the booth for approximately 10 minutes to think about the statements he wanted to make. 0230: Interrogators returned to the booth and reminded detainee of what he was supposed to think about in order to go back to his brothers in Cuba. He began to talk and again introduced going to America, “the land of opportunity,” (Orlando Florida) to conduct a car business. Detainee was cut off and told that we did not want to hear this story anymore. P/E down continued. 0300: Detainee was exercised for 10 minutes, used Bathroom and refused water. 0350: Detainee was unable to stay awake. Tried to stand him up to keep him awake but was unable to stay awake. Detainee was allowed to sleep for 1 hour 10 minutes. 0500: Detainee was woken up exercised for 10 minutes, taken to use bathroom and declined water and food. 0515: P/E Down continued. Detainee was asked if he could remember when he last he felt love? When he last laughed? Last felt Happy? When he last felt like he was worth something? Interrogators compared lifestyle difference between Camp Delta and Camp X-ray. Camp Delta – Could live in a cell and communicate with others; could read if he wants to, practice his religion if he wants to; could laugh with others, could write and receive letters, could sleep when he wants to; drink when he wants to; move around freely in his cell when he wants to; use the bathroom when he wants to and at least feel like a human being with normal emotions. Camp X-ray- live in a wooden box with no communications and constantly reminded of his low level of self worth; unable to laugh and only be laughed at; unable to write or receive letters; unable to read; unable to choose when he sleeps, drinks or go to the bathroom; unable to move around freely; unable to practice his religion when he wants to; unable to feel like a human being; the only feeling he knows at camp x-ray is the hate he brought with him. Interrogator told Detainee to think about what he could have at the camp with his brothers. Detainee listened to Arabic music for 15 minutes before start of rest period. SECRET ORCON 0700: Detainee begins 4 hour rest period. 1100: Detainee was awakened, taken to the bathroom, and walked 10 minutes. Coffee was offered and initially refused. Detainee later accepted coffee and drank one sip. He said he did not want any but took a sip to not be disrespectful. Covered rules have changed theme. Discussed prison life in America. Showed bits of the movie “The Green Mile”. Detainee became unresponsive and the interrogators interjected that perhaps they needed to perform an exorcism. Detainee became more responsive. 1215: Detainee was taken to the bathroom and walked 10 minutes. Detainee became relatively unresponsive again. Interrogators discussed how they had been relatively nice to him. 1230: Detainee was offered food and ate one MRE and drank about 3 oz water. Interrogators decided to escalate detainee’s emotions and began ridiculing him. Detainee became very angry and started to cry. Interrogators instructed the detainee not to cry. 1400: Detainee was taken to the bathroom and walked 10 minutes. Detainee was offered water – refused. Interrogators started playing music and asked the detainee if music offended him. He said it did and the interrogators told him if he could show them where the Koran said it was a sin to listen to music, they would turn if off. Detainee said he did not know where it was. Linguist said the Koran said nothing about listening to music. Detainee said it was in the Hadith, but could now specify where it was. Began Al Qaida falling apart and Taliban themes. Detainee was asked why Al Qaida and the Taliban had the resources to help starving women and children but had done nothing, violating one of the pillars of islam. 1600: Detainee was taken to the bathroom and walked 10 minutes. Detainee was offered water – refused. 1615: Corpsman checked vitals – O.K. Bandages around ankles were replaced to prevent chafing. Detainee was offered water – refused. Interrogators told detainee that he was not respected because he did not answer questions. Interrogators asked if the detainee would not or could not answer and told him that they would respect him as long as his answer was truthful. 1700: Detainee was taken to the bathroom and walked 10 minutes. 1800: Detainee was awakened from a short nap by the interrogation team. Refused water and food. Latrine break for the detainee. 1830: SGT L started “invasion of personal space” approach. Detainee attempted to free himself from restrains. Detainee requested of SGT M to have SGT L removed from the interrogation booth. 1930: Latrine break for the detainee and exercised for circulation purposes. Medical representative weren't in Iraq. And Bush himself, since 2003, has repeatedly insisted on one plainly false point: that Saddam rebuffed the U.N. inspectors in 2002, that "he wouldn't let them in," as he said in 2003, and "he chose to deny inspectors," as he said this March.
The facts are that Iraq — after a four-year hiatus in cooperating with inspections — acceded to the U.N. Security Council's demand and allowed scores of experts to conduct more than 700 inspections of potential weapons sites from Nov. 27, 2002, to March 16, 2003. The inspectors said they could wrap up their work within months. Instead, the U.S. invasion aborted that work.
As recently as May 27, Bush told West Point graduates, "When the United Nations Security Council gave him one final chance to disclose and disarm, or face serious consequences, he refused to take that final opportunity."
All of them --- Bush, Rice, Hoekstra, Santorum, the warmongering nabobs at Fox News – know they are peddling lies. The truth is too glaringly obvious to ignore, even for a pathologically incurious, spoon-fed twit like Bush. But they don't care. Hanley's story is one of the very few in the mainstream press to have ever laid out the facts alongside their lies in a calm, straightforward fashion. It's clear, concise, quietly but utterly devastating – and it won't make a damn bit of difference.
The Bushists know that a wire story buried on page 16 of the Topeka Capital Journal – or even splashed on the front of the Washington Post – poses no threat to their propaganda machine. They know that the majority of Americans get their "news" from TV – or rather, from glimpses at the scrolling headlines rolling by under the bland, blathering, blow-dried heads of the anchors and the fulminating mugs of the countless hard-right apparatchiks who dominate the screen. The lies will go on – and the corpses will keep piling up, despite the occasional flash of lightning piercing through the dark.
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Juan Cole delivers a masterful essay eviscerating the hideous moral perversions of Bush and all the apologists for the ongoing destruction of Lebanon: Bush, Islamic Fascism and the Christians of Jounieh. You should read the whole piece, and see the illustrations of the kind of "Islamic fascists" being killed and despoiled with American weaponry even as we speak, but here are some brief excerpts:
Bush is on vacation, his favorite place to be during a major crisis. The August retreat is the only open admission he makes that Cheney and Rumsfeld are actually running the country, and he just doesn't need to be in his office. The only difference between his stonewalling of Lebanon and the way he let New Orleans drown is that he has put away the banjo this summer, at least in public view. He had someone tie a necktie on him and stopped manically clearing brush for long enough to come out with Condi and hold a press conference. He lied, saying that no one wants to see the violence continue. He wants to see the violence continue. Otherwise he would insist on a ceasefire. You see, if you don't have a ceasefire, the violence continues. If you oppose a ceasefire, you are saying you want the violence to continue. He does….
….If the Israelis had not aggressively occupied the Lebanese South, there would have been no Hizbullah. If the Israelis had left ten years earlier, Hizbullah would have disarmed when all the other militias did. Hizbullah could have been nurtured out of existence if Lebanon had been helped.
Now, extremism has been strengthened. Lebanon is abject, on its knees, stricken with a plague inflicted on it by Bush and Olmert. The abject, the humiliated, the impoverished do not, as Bush and Olmert fondly imagine to themselves, lie down and let the mighty walk over them. They blow up skyscrapers.
The idea that the whole Eastern Mediterranean had to be polluted, that the Christian Lebanese economy had to be destroyed for the next decade or two, that 900,000 persons had to be rendered homeless, that a whole country had to be pounded into rubble because some Lebanese Shiites voted for Hizbullah in the last election, putting 12 in parliament, is obscene. Bush's glib ignorance is destroying our world. Our children will suffer for it, and perhaps our grandchildren after them.
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5 Galloway Rips � ���, /Restless Farewell: Last Call for the Global Eye.restless-farewell-last-call-for-the-global-eye - Below is my last 'Global Eye' column, for the Aug. 11 edition of the Moscow Times, written, as it happens, during a visit to my hometown. Again, forgive the personal tenor of this entry.
Starting this week, I will be writing a regular column for Truthout.org.
WATERTOWN, Tennessee — Our revels now are ended. This is my last column for The Moscow Times.
It seems somehow appropriate, if entirely accidental, that I should be writing it here, in the small town in rural Tennessee where I grew up — indeed, in the same room where almost 40 years ago I first heard mysterious snatches of Radio Moscow filtering through the static on my shortwave radio, and where I spent so many hours reading and re-reading Solzhenitsyn: my first exposure to Russian literature, and to a deeper Russian culture behind the chest-beating blather of state propaganda.
It was these "echoes from the future," to borrow Pasternak's line, that set me on a path that would one day lead to the great city itself. I first saw it swathed in winter gray, in the dying days of the Brezhnev regime; then many years later returned to Moscow in the bright, choking heat of midsummer, at the high-water mark of the Yeltsin era. I came to the city as a supplicant: destitute, no job in hand, no home to go back to — a last, wild throw of the dice.
Against the odds, I found a foothold: a job at The Moscow Times, working in one of the same buildings where they'd concocted the Soviet propaganda I'd heard in those broadcasts years before. The column itself was largely an accident. The paper's editor wanted a weekly feature for the arts and entertainment section: a round-up of funny stories culled from the newswires. He told the section editor — a fetching young Englishwoman — to cobble it together each week. She was less than enthusiastic about the chore, so I volunteered to take it on. (And reader, I married her — but that's another story.) I began plucking out items illustrative of human absurdity, then riffing off them, usually in slavish imitation of S.J. Perelman, and the feature quickly turned from a compilation to a personal column. It seemed to go over well enough, and when I had to leave the city later for family reasons, they asked me to keep writing it from abroad. So on it went.
Politics, that rich — indeed, overripe — field of human absurdity, had always been a running theme in the Eye, particularly the rise of right-wing extremism in America, which I'd been writing about since the late 1970s. During the bloodsport of the Clinton impeachment and the sinister buffoonery of the 2000 election campaign, politics came to dominate the column more and more. And when the American Republic was usurped by a gaggle of corporate bagmen and sex-crazed God-botherers in the judicial coup of December 2000, the Global Eye found a permanent theme: high crimes and low comedy in the Bush Imperium.
After the thunderclap of Sept. 11, this theme, and the column, became considerably darker. It was immediately apparent that George W. Bush and his henchmen were going to use the "new Pearl Harbor" — which they had openly pined for, in print, before the election — to advance their long-standing agenda: "full spectrum dominance" over geopolitical affairs and world energy resources; rampant cronyism to loot the public treasury for private profit and partisan ends; a vast expansion of presidential powers, including arbitrary arrest, indefinite detention, even "extrajudicial killing" at Bush's whim; and the wanton destruction of civic society, of the very idea of a "common good" that might impinge upon the power and privilege of the wealthy elite.
All this was evident — just from reading the mainstream press — in the first few weeks after Sept. 11, so I wrote about it. I didn't think it was particularly controversial. Yet in those palmy days of the Bush ascendancy, The Moscow Times was one of the few mainstream, for-profit media outlets in the world publishing this kind of criticism. The paper was flooded with hate mail for printing such "traitorous filth," such "lunatic ravings." But the editors never asked me to change a single word, never censored anything. Nowadays, of course, the column's view of Howdy Dubya — a crook, a killer, a liar, a tyrant, a mean-spirited, incompetent goon — is practically conventional wisdom. You'll even hear if from stalwart Republicans of the old school. But The Moscow Times was on the case from the beginning. They could have easily washed their hands of this lunatic raver and saved themselves a lot of grief. But they didn't, and for that I'm eternally grateful.
These days the paper is focusing more intensely on its unique strengths: covering Russia and environs. It's moving away from the kind of world news and commentary that Moscow readers can now obtain from other sources: the Internet, cable television and so on. So the Global Eye — which by design has no specific Russian content — is being dropped. But its peculiar brand of raving can still be found, for anyone interested, at my political blog, Empire Burlesque.
The dogs bark, the caravan moves on; such is life. Yet as Lincoln once said, in a wildly dissimilar context, I am loath to close. My final word here severs my last real link to the city I've loved above all others. The echoes from the future that I first heard in this room will now be a whisper from the past. Yet to have known Moscow, to have called it home, even for a season, is surely privilege enough for anyone. Why ask for more? Let the circle come to a close, here where it began. Do svidaniya.
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Relatives of victims,killed when their building was hit by an Israeli raid on Monday, mourn during their funeral held in Beirut August 9, 2006. (Eric Gaillard/Reuters)
A Lebanese morgue worker and a nurse cover the body of a dead l girl at a hospital morgue in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2006, after a building collapsed in the town of Ghaziyeh following Israeli airstrikes. Israeli airstrikes hit near a funeral procession in south Lebanon on Tuesday, sending some of the 1,500 mourners running in panic and killing at least 13 people in nearby buildings, witnesses, hospital officials and the town's mayor said. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
Lebanese chant anti-Israel and anti-U.S. slogans during a funeral in Beirut, August 9, 2006. (Sharif Karim/Reuters)
Fadi Dahaineh embraces the wrapped body of his 20 month-old son Mohammed who was killed in an Israeli airstrike on an apartment building late Monday, as he walks into the funeral house of the Shaheedein cemetery in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2006. The death toll in an Israeli airstrike on a Shiite neighborhood in south Beirut three days ago has risen to at least 41, with 61 wounded, Lebanese security officials said Wednesday. (AP Photo)
A Shiite clergyman identifies the dead bodies of people killed after in Israeli air strike on Monday for burial at the morgue of Shaeedein cemetery for in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2006. The dead were from an Israeli air strike on Monday on an apartment building in the Chiah suburb of Beirut. The death toll in an Israeli airstrike on a Shiite neighborhood in south Beirut three days ago has risen to at least 41, with 61 wounded, Lebanese security officials said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian)
A Lebanese civil defence worker carries the body of Iham Rmeity, 5, after she was extracted August 9, 2006 from the rubble of a building in Chiyah, a residential neighbourhood in Beirut. The building was hit by an Israeli raid on Monday. REUTERS/Hussam Shbaro (LEBANON) h�t�> > y allowcomments=1
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6 6 bodies!, *graphic*, lebanon, another, deadly, day, yet� I suppose they are all terrorists eh? http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/events/wl/080601mideast Relatives of victims,killed when their building was hit by an Is� /��, $The Ceremony of Innocence is Drowned$the-ceremony-of-innocence-is-drowned � In the oceans of newsprint and tsunamis of pixels expended on the London bomb plot stories over the last two days, I don't recall seeing -- anywhere, either in the US or UK media -- that one little word which differentiates honest journalism from the noxious regurgitations of state propaganda: "alleged."
Everywhere, you read that a "bomb plot was thwarted" -- not an alleged bomb plot. Everywhere, you read that the plotters (or most of them) have been captured -- not the "alleged" plotters. Everywhere, whatever line is being laid down by "intelligence officials" and government poo-bahs is accepted uncritically and megaphoned out to the public. Everywhere the presumption of innocence -- one of the bedrock liberties of the "way of life" that we are supposed to be defending -- is gleefully tossed aside.
Now it may be that there was a bomb plot. It may be that those who have been rounded up were indeed planning to blow up airplanes with IPods and Juicy Juice with a nitro twist. Certainly, the state terrorism of the Bush and Blair regimes -- which has killed more than 100,000 innocent Muslims in Iraq alone -- has fomented a whole new wave of hatred and extremism that will inevitably result in non-state terrorist violence directed against the West: an incontrovertible fact confirmed by Bush's and Blair's own intelligence services.
But in the present case, neither the existence of a plot nor the guilt of the alleged plotters have been proven in a court of law. This doesn't mean that the claims of government officials should not be reported or taken seriously. (Although anyone who remembers John Ashcroft's deathless pronouncements from Moscow about thwarting the "dirty bomber" Jose Padilla -- among many other hair-raising scare stories in both the US and UK that turned to be far less than meets the eye, albeit politically well-timed -- will retain a healthy skepticism until all the facts are in. This is only natural when dealing with proven liars like the Bush and Blair regimes -- liars who have used mendacious fearmongering over and over to enhance their own weak political standing, and moreover, liars who in this case control all of the information about the case; there are no outside, independent agents making charges, or bearing witness to open incidents -- just the same governments who have lied to us about "intelligence" and "security" issues time and again, telling us about secret plots tracked in secret by secret forces, who now hold the alleged plotters in secret). Nor does the lack of judicial judgment mean that talking heads and scribbling scribes shouldn't speculate wildly to their heart's content about the alleged incident and its implications, if that's what floats their boats (and sells their product).
But it does mean that every now and then they ought to toss in an "alleged" -- if they are interested in retaining at least the form of independent journalism, that is. But not many are concerned with that sort of thing these days. The presumption of innocence -- like the Geneva Conventions -- is just another "quaint" relic of a bygone era.
UPDATE: Meanwhile, Jonathan Schwarz is on the case with another aspect of the airport security issue that it is being cruelly neglected by the mainstream media. From A Tiny Revolution:
I doubt anyone will even notice this bigoted aspect of the newest London bombing plot:
Officials were requiring passengers to check everything except personal items like keys, wallets, and passports, which they had to carry in plastic bags. Drinks and other liquid items were banned. Travelers were required to remove spectacles or sunglasses from their cases, and those traveling with infants were required to taste any baby milk in front of security officials.
And what about those who, like myself, have mated with women from Planet Voltran and now have young children who drink nitroglycerin? Will our needs be ignored completely?
"Angry Arab" As'ad AbuKhalil takes a sharp pen to
the UN resolution on the war in Lebanon.
The measure is presented as a peace plan, but AbuKhalil, like Jeremiah, finds
"they have treated the wound of my people carelessly, crying, 'Peace,
peace,' when there is no peace."
PEJ News - C. L. Cook - So it's come back? Israel sniped this past week at the growing chorus coming out of civilized Europe against their murder spree in Lebanon, and continued practice of routine atrocity in Gaza and the West Bank, with a tart retort to the Germany's, France's, and lesser's, of their own complicity in the ethnic cleansing of Kosovo not so many years ago. The implication is simple enough to see, as is its logical presumption: "My evil is no greater than yours."
Well, then: Bombs away!
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"You Did It Too"
Israel's Kosovo Redux
C. L. Cook
PEJ News
August 12, 2006
How fitting Israel should retaliate European criticism of its murderous rampage, currently burning nicely, with its most lethal, but rarely used, diplomatic Weapon of Sass Destruction: The Truth.
Europeans, at least those that rule over the major, and aspiring nations of Europe, are complicit in the abortion of justice and abrogation of the duty to Humanity during what was the NATO scourge of the Former Republic of Yugoslavia. Fitting for the lessons learnt, and practiced with precedent-following impunity in Palestine, Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, and elsewheres.
Apt, when considering the use of cluster bombs, and depleted uranium munitions, drones, and satellites, missiles, and smart bombs, and on, and on, combined as it is with the systematic brutalisation of prisoners, and the deliberate targeting of essential civic services; services like: Water, and sewage; power, and communications; transit routes, and hospitals; houses, schools, fire and police stations; ambulances, fire trucks, and now "any vehicle" piloted by one so desperate to risk flight 'neath the IDF terror being wreaked about her, and her children's ears.
Yes, it sounds a lot like the "ethnic cleansing" of Kosovo.
Appropriate too, remembering the involvement of Osama, and his crew, in complicity with their then-C.I.A. paymasters, and the similar brand of carnage loosed largely against the citizenry. All done then, Israel implies now, with the official imprimatur of both NATO, and the UN.
Just so!
Amazingly, Israel - and, I beg pardon of those Arab and "fringe" Israeli's opposing the fanatical fascism currently made most starkly visible, hath spake two truths in a single day! But, the amazing parallels well exceed that, when looking a little more deeply into the goings-on, both today, and in those benighted days in the Balkans.
In those dark times, an entire people, identify racially, were driven from the land they'd lived upon for millennia; driven wholesale from their purchase. These same were strewn, the survivors of the onslaught, to the winds; scattered to find some new landing, the only certainty being they could not now, nor perhaps ever, go home.
They speaking for the so-called Israeli nation have put on notice all that would dare oppose naked, military conquest, and their neighbours too targeted should they interfere. In Lebanon, Robert Fisk reports today, leaflets falling the heavens, each one an identical indictment of international criminality; each an admission of the abandonment of the Geneva Conventions, the rules that have ostensibly guided the world in this unprecedented time.
Israel's blood-stained ministers are correct in their condemnation of NATO, its members, and the public that allowed the destruction of a nation, all conducted in the name of justice, and based on lies and blatant, criminal deception. They are correct too in wondering: "Why complain of we when doing your dirty business?"
And, that is the heart of it.
The dichotomy is an illusion: "Israel" and "America" are a single entity. This is no news to those living beneath the boot of the rising tide of oppression in those far-flung places. It seems only in the United States, where the results of a recent poll - if you believe in such things - claimed: More than half of "Americans" asked didn't know which year the rather well publicized 9/11 attacks occurred. This of course played in conjunction with the ceaseless 24/7 "news" cycle reportage of the next, newest "terrorist plot;" a convenient distraction from military reversals in Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan, and the continuing hammering of the populace in Occupied Palestine.
What differs, during the most recent outrages against humaneness is the Israeli State's official, literal declaration of war against a civil population has not been seen since the Nazi occupation of Greece. Collective Punishment of civilians is clearly indicated upon the thousands of leaflets dropped before the bombs in Lebanon; as the most knowing English-language reporter from the scene, Robert Fisk reports.
These are clearly open declarations, on the part of the current Israeli leadership, of defiance to any and all conventions yet constructed in hopes of making of this world a more equitable place. And, the lack of effective reaction to these obvious transgressions on the part of the "world" community are a Damnation of collusion in ethnic cleansing; a cleansing some are already calling "Holocaust."
Chris Cook is a contributing editor to PEJ News, and host of Gorilla Radio, a weekly exploration of the muck and mire comprising what is today, laughingly referred to as civilization. You can check the GR Blog here.
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7 kosovo, redux, israel, you, did, PEJ News - C. L. Cook - So it's come back? Israel sniped this past week at the growing chorus coming out of civilized Europe against their murder spree in Lebanon, and continued practice of routine atrocity in Gaza and the West Bank, with a tart retort to the Germany's, France's, and lesser's, of tP �( )Gorilla Radio for Monday, August 14, 2006'gorilla-radio-for-monday-august-14-2006 R
So, what’s it to be for us all? Is humanity destined to descend the winding vortex to total annihilation, dooming the rest of the biosphere too to destruction, or is there yet a way to salvation?
Len Falkenstein is a playwright, drama teacher, and the Artistic Director of New Brunswick’s Theatre Free Radical. They will be premiering his play, ‘Futures,’ at Victoria’s annual Fringe Festival later this month.
Futures is described as: “a suspenseful and highly topical new drama combing text, live music, and multimedia projections to offer a powerful, unsettling, and at times blackly comic exploration of the complex intersections between global economics, environmental degradation, and the ongoing war on terror.
Len Falkenstein in the first half.
And, as unsettling as our uncertain future is, for thousands of Victoria’s poorest residents, their worries are more immediate.
British Columbia’s social welfare system has undergone radical revision during Gordon Campbell’s tenure as premier. In some cases, the results have been deadly.
In wake of the failures of the Ministry of Children and Families, the provincial Liberals have announced the creation of the position of commissioner of youth and children. But, what about the equally lethal failures of the province’s financial assistance system?
Bruce Wallace is researcher with the Vancouver Island Public Interest Research Group, and he’s arguing the province must also retain a commissioner to oversee the way welfare is run.
Bruce Wallace in the second half.
And, Janine Bandcroft will be here at the bottom of the hour to bring us up to speed with all that’s good to do in and around Victoria in the coming week.
But first, Len Falkenstein and playing with our collective futures.
Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Monday, 5-6pm Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, 104.3 cable, and on the internet at: http://cfuv.uvic.ca He also serves as a contributing editor at the progressive web news site: http://www.pej.org.
You can check out the GR blog at: http://GorillaRadioBlog.blogspot.com
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8 $ 2006, august, gorilla, monday, radio�So, what’s it to be for us all? Is humanity destined to descend the winding vortex to total annihilation, dooming the rest of the biosphere too to destruction, or is there yet a way to salvation? Len Falkenstein is a playwright, drama teacher, and the Artistic Director of New Brunswick’s Theatre Free Radical. They will be premiering his play, ‘Futures,’ at Victoria’s annual Fringe Festival lat5 b��( .Home Front: Dispatches from the War on America-home-front-dispatches-from-the-war-on-america �_ While your attention has been diverted by the proxy war in Lebanon, the civil war in Iraq, the still-hot shootin' war in Afghanistan and the coming war with Iran, the Bush Regime been busy waging -- and winning -- another take-no-prisoners, give-no-quarter conflict right in the sacred Homeland itself: class war.
I know, I know: we don't have "classes" in America. No, our society is flatter than a flitter; we're all born on the same level playing field, lined up together at the same starting gate, given the same amount of seed corn to plant on identical plots of rich topsoil. We're all subject to the same laws, which are applied equally to everybody, all the time, regardless of race, creed, color, national origin or sexual orientation. Who would deny these self-evident truths -- except perhaps for those same churls who refuse to acknowledge the seasonal beneficence of Santa Claus or the wonder-working power of the Easter Bunny?
And in truth, the epic despoliation now being wrought by the Bush Regime upon the overwhelming majority of the American people does not fall neatly into classic (or classist) Marxist categories. For one thing, Marx's bête noir, the bourgeoisie, are getting it in the neck along with everybody else. In fact, now that the poor have essentially been erased from public consciousness, wiped out by decades of savage Right-wing rollback, and "tough love" from corporate-coddling, welfare-whacking "New" Democrats, the middle class and its "privileges" -- higher education, affordable health care, job security, pensions, government services and regulatory protections, civil liberties, etc. -- have become primary targets of the Bushists' bold attempt to return American society to the glory days of the Gilded Age, where rapacious robber barons held untrammeled sway.
Dispatches from the Bush Faction's war on America come in every day, piecemeal, the dots rarely if ever connected. Last week saw a bumper crop of precision strikes, hitting an array of some of the Regime's favorite targets: the cannon fodder they've used up in their wars of crony conquest then tossed aside like so much bad meat; the two million Americans that have been clapped behind bars by the Bush Regime -- more prisoners both in sheer numbers and percentage of the population than any nation on earth; and those ever-popular punching bags, the unwealthy sick.
Congress appears ready to slash funding for the research and treatment of brain injuries caused by bomb blasts, an injury that military scientists describe as a signature wound of the Iraq war. House and Senate versions of the 2007 Defense appropriation bill contain $7 million for the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center — half of what the center received last fiscal year.
Proponents of increased funding say they are shocked to see cuts in the treatment of bomb blast injuries in the midst of a war. "I find it basically unpardonable that Congress is not going to provide funds to take care of our soldiers and sailors who put their lives on the line for their country," says Martin Foil, a member of the center's board of directors...George Zitnay, co-founder of the center, testified before a Senate subcommittee in May that body armor saves troops caught in blasts but leaves many with brain damage. "Traumatic brain injury is the signature injury of the war on terrorism," he testified.
The Brain Injury Center, devoted to treating and understanding war-related brain injuries, has received more money each year of the war — from $6.5 million in fiscal 2001 to $14 million last year. Spokespersons for the appropriations committees in both chambers say cuts were due to a tight budget this year.
"Honestly, they would have loved to have funded it, but there were just so many priorities," says Jenny Manley, spokeswoman for the Senate Appropriations Committee.
Boy, they're not even trying very hard to put a plausible spin on these things, are they? No "budget flexibility" to fund treatment for the heads being battered, splattered and bashed in Bush's lie-greased, blood-sodden "war of choice" in Iraq.? The Republicans couldn't even find $7.5 million in chump change just to keep the current level of funding? Seven-and-a-half million dollars -- Dick Cheney could pay that much with a personal check with scarcely a flutter in his bank balance. Halliburton and Boeing charge the taxpayers that much in "overhead" before they sit down to breakfast every day. George Widowmaker Bush could chip in that much with just a chunk of the windfall he'll get from his elimination of inheritance taxes. And how much money have they given the Moonies to peddle "abstinence" in the public schools?
The Republicans are slashing war-related brain trauma treatment for one reason only: they don't give a good goddamn about the rabble they send off to kill and die in their crusade for loot and dominion. That's all there is to it. If they wanted to fund it, if it was important to them, they'd fund it. But they don't, and it isn't, so they won't.
Buried deep in the story is yet another twist of the knife. It seems the Center has also offended the Lord High Warlord, Don Rumsfeld. How so? Here's how:
… The center has clashed with the Pentagon in recent months over a program to identify troops who have suffered mild to moderate brain injuries in Iraq from mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and roadside bombs — the most common weapons used by insurgents. Preliminary research by the center shows that about 10% of all troops in Iraq, and up to 20% of front line infantry troops, suffer concussions during combat tours….The center urged the Pentagon to screen all troops returning from Iraq in order to treat symptoms and create a database of brain injury victims. Scientists say multiple concussions can cause permanent brain damage.
The Pentagon so far has declined to do the screening and argues that more research is needed.
In other words, the Pentagon doesn't want to acknowledge all the brain injuries being borne by returning troops -- because then they'd have to pay to treat them. And they don't want to pay. Bush and Rumsfeld need that money for the black-hole warpits they've already dug, and the one they're planning for Iran. (As Sy Hersh notes this week: "A former intelligence officer said, "We told Israel, 'Look, if you guys have to go, we're behind you all the way. But we think it should be sooner rather than later - the longer you wait, the less time we have to evaluate and plan for Iran before Bush gets out of office.'") They don't care if the soldiers they've ordered into battle come back damaged, crippled, irradiated or diseased. They don't want to know about it. All they really care about is that these soldiers have the good grace to kick off quietly and cheaply somewhere after their service, so their deaths won't add to the politically-charged body count of the Bush wars.
An influential federal panel of medical advisers has recommended that the government loosen regulations that severely limit the testing of pharmaceuticals on prison inmates, a practice that was all but stopped three decades ago after revelations of abuse.
The proposed change includes provisions intended to prevent problems that plagued earlier programs. Nevertheless, it has dredged up a painful history of medical mistreatment and incited debate among prison rights advocates and researchers about whether prisoners can truly make uncoerced decisions, given the environment they live in.
Supporters of such programs cite the possibility of benefit to prison populations, and the potential for contributing to the greater good.
Until the early 1970’s, about 90 percent of all pharmaceutical products were tested on prison inmates, federal officials say. But such research diminished sharply in 1974 after revelations of abuse at prisons like Holmesburg here, where inmates were paid hundreds of dollars a month to test items as varied as dandruff treatments and dioxin, and where they were exposed to radioactive, hallucinogenic and carcinogenic chemicals.
In addition to addressing the abuses at Holmesburg, the regulations were a reaction to revelations in 1972 surrounding what the government called the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male, which was begun in the 1930’s and lasted 40 years. In it, several hundred mostly illiterate men with syphilis in rural Alabama were left untreated, even after a cure was discovered, so that researchers could study the disease.
“What happened at Holmesburg was just as gruesome as Tuskegee, but at Holmesburg it happened smack dab in the middle of a major city, not in some backwoods in Alabama,” said Allen M. Hornblum, an urban studies professor at Temple University and the author of “Acres of Skin,” a 1998 book about the Holmesburg research. “It just goes to show how prisons are truly distinct institutions where the walls don’t just serve to keep inmates in, they also serve to keep public eyes out.”
...“It strikes me as pretty ridiculous to start talking about prisoners getting access to cutting-edge research and medications when they can’t even get penicillin and high-blood-pressure pills,” said Paul Wright, editor of Prison Legal News, an independent monthly review. “I have to imagine there are larger financial motivations here.”
This story speaks -- screams -- for itself. It's part of that grand rollback mentioned earlier. The Hard Right and its present avatars in the Bush Faction really do want to repeal and destroy all of the advances in civil rights and civic rights and human rights won -- at such tremendous sacrifice -- over the past century. It's not just about dismantling the Great Society or undoing the New Deal; it's about going all the way back to the post-Civil War era, when the powerful few could prey without let or hindrance upon the wretched many, and government was a brutal tool in the robber baron's arsenal. These guys don't just have Franklin Roosevelt in their sights; they're going after Teddy Roosevelt too, with all the trust-busting and major social reforms of his era (many of which he gets unearned credit for, but that's another story). -- And of course, a goodly number of these Hard-Righters don't want to stop at the post-Civil War era; they'd like to restore the "honor" and "morality" of the antebellum South as well.
Anyone who wants to understand the roots -- and future goals -- of the Hard Right's penal philosophy should check out David Oshinsky's searing 1996 book, Worse Than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice. You might have trouble finding it (I ran across my copy in the remainder bin in a Nashville bookstore): hard truths don't hang around on the shelves as long as the latest Harry Potter. But if you want to see where the Hard Right is coming from -- and what they "admire" when, like John Ashcroft and Trent Lott, they hark back to the good old days -- the book is well worth the effort of looking up.
Like America's soldiers, America's two million prisoners are worthless trash in the eyes of the elite. The former are to be denied medical treatment; the latter are to be subjected to medical experiments. Either way, they're just things, just ciphers to be moved around in the great game of grabbing loot. You ditch the soldiers so you can take the money that should have been used to heal them and either stuff it in your trousers or ladle it out as pork or payoff in some backroom deal. And you use the prisoners as guinea pigs to pump profits for Big Pharma. As for the usual porous "protections" outlined in the measure, one expert noted: “They’re also the parts of the report that faced the strongest resistance from federal officials, and I fear they’re most likely the parts that will end up getting cut as these recommendations become new regulations.”
Finally, a week wouldn't be complete with yet another Bush bashing of the sick and old and poor. Once more into the breach with the NYT: Planned Medicaid Cuts Cause Rift With States. Excerpts:
The White House is clashing with governors of both parties over a plan to cut Medicaid payments to hospitals and nursing homes that care for millions of low-income people. The White House says the changes are needed to ensure the “fiscal integrity” of Medicaid and to curb “excessive payments” to health care providers....
More than 330 members of Congress, including 103 Republicans, have objected to the plan. A letter signed by 82 House Republicans says it “would seriously disrupt financing of Medicaid programs around the country.” A bipartisan group of 50 senators recently urged President Bush to scrap the proposed rules, which were set forth in his 2007 budget and could be issued before the end of this year.
Medicaid finances health care for more than 50 million low-income people, with money provided by the federal government and the states. Under the White House plan, the federal government would reduce Medicaid payments to many public hospitals and nursing homes by redefining allowable costs. It would also limit the states’ ability to finance their share of Medicaid by imposing taxes on health care providers. About two-thirds of the states have such taxes.
Ah, there's the rub, you see. There's the heart of the matter: limiting "the states' ability to finance their share of Medicaid by imposing taxes on health care providers." How dare these commie bastard states try to help the poor and sick by begging a nickel from the billionaires of Big Medicine like Bill Frist.
State and local officials, members of Congress, hospitals, nursing homes and advocates for poor people make several arguments. First, they say, Mr. Bush is doing by regulation what he unsuccessfully asked Congress to do by legislation in the last two years. Second, they say, prior administrations and the Bush administration itself approved many of the state taxes that would be deemed improper under the new rules.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California, a Republican, said, “The administration is attempting to reverse decades of federal Medicaid policy through the regulatory process,” less than a year after “Congress rejected these misguided cuts.”
In Missouri, Gov. Matt Blunt, a Republican, said the change “could mean a loss of more than $84.9 million” for his state. That, he said, would “jeopardize the continuity of care for Medicaid recipients” and set back efforts to improve care in nursing homes....
The cuts contemplated by the White House would not reduce the cost of care. But state officials said the changes would put pressure on states to reduce Medicaid benefits, restrict eligibility or lower payments to health care providers...
Dr. Bruce A. Chernof, director of the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, said the cuts would “reduce access to services in a county where 33 percent of residents are uninsured.” The county’s five public hospitals operate trauma centers and burn treatment units for all patients, not just Medicaid recipients, he said.
The effects are magnified by the way Medicaid is financed. For each dollar that a state loses in provider tax revenue, the federal government will reduce its contributions — by $1 in California and Connecticut, and by $3 in a poor state like Mississippi.
In other words, the point is to kick people off the Medicaid rolls, make it much harder to get treatment (just as it's now harder for students to go to college), and re-define whole sections of the population out of eligibility. And in classic Bush style, the poorest of the poor, as in Mississippi, will lose the most.
Every day, the Regime makes it abundantly, overwhelmingly, undeniably clear that there is only one thing that sick poor people -- and used-up soldiers and chained-up prisoners -- can do to play their part in Bush's noble vision for American society: they should all slink off into the dark somewhere and die.
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Detainee was taken to the bathroom and walked 10 minutes. 2215: Detainee taken to bathroom and walked 10 minutes. 23 December 2002 SECRET ORCON 0001: Upon entering booth, lead changed white noise music and hung pictures of swimsuit models around his neck. Detainee was left in booth listening to white noise. 0030: Lead entered booth and observed that detainee appeared troubled. Lead asked detainee how he was doing. Detainee related that he had problems. When lead first asked him what the problems were he stated that they were between him and god. Lead then told detainee to tell interrogator his problems because they could not be solved unless they were addressed. Detainee then address the following problems to lead: 1. Being subjected to pictures of swimsuit models and questioning. – he began to cry quietly at this point. 2. Metal chair is too stiff and uncomfortable. 3. The overall treatment here. He cannot handle the treatment much longer. - when he made this statement he began to cry and sob out loud. Lead asked him if he had any other problems and he stated that the other problems he could deal with on his own. Ie: physical pain, sleeping arrangement etc. What he could not deal with much longer were his being subjected to the pictures and the treatment day after day. Lead then began to explain why he was being subjected to the following: 1. The pictures: 2. Metal chair: 3. Treatment: Lead then began a futility approach on detainee and stated that he has chosen this lifestyle. The “attention to detail” approach began. Lead pulled pictures of swimsuit models off detainee and told him the test of his ability to answer questions would begin. Detainee refused to answer and finally stated that he would after lead poured water over detainees head and was told he would be subjected to this treatment day after day. Detainee was told to think about his decision to answer questions. Lead would only ask questions if detainee fully cooperated with lead. 0130: lead returned to booth and asked detainee if he had thought about the answer he was to give. Detainee then related that he would answer questions regarding pictures of swimsuit models. Detainee was asked 10 questions. First 3 answers were used for training and teach him how to provide all details related to the question. Of the following 7 questions he gave 2 correct answers with detail to substantiate his answer. He gave 2 incorrect answers due to his lack of attention to detail. He gave 3 vague answers without enough information to substantiate his answer. After the 2nd SECRET ORCON incorrect answer he was told that was enough for today since there was no reason to continue and this would continue tomorrow. 0230: Detainee drank 1 cup of coffee. Upon completion he was told to go exercise and go to the bathroom. Detainee then asked lead if he could ask a question. Lead told detainee to ask his question. Detainee requested that lead add wearing the towel over his head to the list of detainee problems. Detainee related that he already knows where he is, so why does he continue to wear a towel over his head. Lead then told detainee that he will continue to wear a towel over his and live this lifestyle until he has proven himself to be truthful, and provides answers to questions asked. He was reminded that he chooses when this treatment stops. 0300: Lead and translator played cards in front of detainee. Lead instructed detainee to drink 24 ouinces of water. He was told that he needed to drink the 24 ounces by the time the next break approached. he was not finished the remainder If of the water would be spilled over his head. Detainee completed the 24 ounces of water. 0400: Detainee was exercised and taken to the bathroom. Mps told lead that detainee cried quietly under the towel while exercising. When he returned to the booth lead asked, what is bothering you? Detainee immediately began to cry and sob loudly and when he regained his composer he stated “i’m tired of my life here” and continued to cry. Lead reinforced that he, detainee knew what he had to do to go back to his brothers in cuba. Detainee then related, “i’m ready to tell my story.” Lead told detainee that he has not proven himself to be able to answer questions in detail and truthfully, therefore lead did not want to hear his story at this time. 0500: Detainee was told to drink water and drank 16 ounces. 0600: Detainee was exercised and taken to the bathroom. Upon returning to booth he was told to clean his room. He picked up trash and swept floor. He was subjected to white noise and lead left room. Lead was then informed that detainee appeared to be crying and wished to see him. Lead returned to booth and asked what detainee wanted. Detainee asked if he could have food and water. Lead told detainee that he would give him food and water but if he mentioned going on strike from food and water as he has in the past lead would take it away. Detainee related that he would not mention going on food / water strike anymore to lead. 0700: Lead returned to booth and instructed detainee to go to sleep. He was reminded of his choices and lifestyle he could choose. 1100: Detainee awakened and taken to bathroom. Interrogator engaged detainee in conversation and asked the detainee why Muslims would consider the U.S. oppressive. Detainee was evasive and would not answer the question. 1115: Detainee was offered water and refused, so the interrogator poured some of the bottle over the detainee’s head. Detainee began to answer the interrogator’s question by stating the Muslims did not like the U.S. being in Saudi Arabia. Interrogator pointed out that the Saudi government had invited the U.S. into Saudi Arabia. Detainee responded that that was due to Iraq, and that they were no longer a threat so the U.S. had no reason to still be in Saudi. The detainee stated that this was not his opinion and that he did not see the U.S. presence as sinful, but others might see the 9-11 attacks as a warning to the U.S. to leave Saudi. SECRET ORCON 1215: Detainee taken to bathroom and walked 10 minutes. Control started a “drill instructor” approach and instructed the detainee to salute when the control entered the booth and to answer questions respectfully with “sir”. The control ran several drills asking questions and encouraging the detainee to answer quickly and loudly. After several questions the detainee was responding as desired, and the control slipped in a question about the detainee’s involvement with Al Qaida. The detainee appeared to start to give an answer but then caught himself and stated “Sir I wasn’t Al Qaida, sir”. 1245: Detainee offered food – refused. Detainee drank one bottle of water. DI approach continued with control outlining to detainee that the interrogators were the detainee’s only family now. 1515: Detainee taken to bathroom and walked 10 minutes. Lead entered the booth and asked the detainee what had been transpiring. Detainee told lead that control had been telling him the rules. Lead decided to engage in conversation and recommended the circumstantial evidence theme. Detainee stated that he did not like that topic. Lead asked the linguist what to talk about and the linguist suggested Al Qaida. Detainee stated that he did not like that topic either. The detainee finally stated that he would like to know about agriculture in the U.S. Lead started telling about crops grown in the U.S. and transitioned into the circumstantial evidence theme. The detainee was reminded that the people he was captured with were Al Qaida, and that even though some of the people he was captured with were talking about him, we would not divulge their names. Detainee was reminded that when he talked, his name would be protected as well. Detainee’s actions were compared to the Manchester Document. 1700: Detainee taken to bathroom and walked 10 minutes. Lead engaged detainee in conversation about his travel from Afghanistan to Pakistan. Detainee described trip in detail from the month-long stay with A in Khost up to his arrival in Cuba. Detainee stated that an Afghani named S lead the group on foot from Afghanistan to Pakistan. Detainee also stated that he stayed close to S and three Afghanis during the journey. He described the Afghans in detail, but would not offer descriptions of the Arabs in the group. When asked why he did not associate with the other Arab speakers in the group, he stated he was afraid of them because he had been robbed (he stated that he had been robbed by an Afghani while riding in a taxi, so it doesn’t make any sense that he would want to avoid Arabs and stay close to Afgans.) 1830: Detainee taken to bathroom and walked 10 minutes. Detainee continued detailing his trip from Afghanistan to Cuba. 2000: Detainee given a nap. 2130: Detainee was awaken. The themes that were employed for the night were Taliban, Afghanistan and Al Qaeda falling apart. The detainee did not provide the interrogators with any new information. 2245: Detainee was taken to the latrine and exercised for approximately 10 minutes. Refused water. Female interrogator used invasion of personal space and detainee cried out to Allah several times. 2345: Detainee was taken to the latrine and exercised. SECRET ORCON 24 December 2002 0001: Control entered booth, changed music playing, and hung binder of fitness models around detainee’s neck. 0020: Lead entered the booth and asked the detainee why he stated he respected the lead. Detainee stated that lead treated him better than the second shift. Lead asked detainee what he thought of lead. Detainee hesitated to answer and was berated. Detainee finally stated that the lead spoke injustices by confront him with the circumstantial evidence when the detainee told his story. Lead explained that this was done because the detainee is lying and we know he is lying because he keeps changing his story, but the truth will always stay the same. Rules have changed theme was covered. 0200: Control entered the booth and began the “attention to detail” lesson for the night. The detainee still would not accurately answer questions about the fitness models and control stated that the lesson would continue the next day. Detainee complained that the interrogator had said that today would be the last day of this lesson. Control replied that the lesson would continue until the detainee could accurately answer all questions asked of him during the lesson. Control left the booth with the detainee still complaining about the lessons. 0300: Detainee offered water – drank one bottle. Detainee taken to bathroom and walked 10 minutes, then allowed to take a nap. 0500: Detainee awakened, taken to bathroom, and walked 15 minutes. 0615: Detainee offered food and water – ate one MRE and drank one bottle of water. Rules have changed theme was used and detainee was reminded that he would remain here until he told the truth. Detainee was attentive during session. 0645: Detainee taken to bathroom and walked 10 minutes. 0700: Detainee taken to his sleeping cell in X-Ray for sleep time. 1100: Detainee awakened but left in X-Ray cell as part of a prearranged operation to allow more time for conversation between detainee and confederate. Detainee was rushed back into his cell just after being removed while walking to interrogation booth, and the guards appeared anxious that something was happening. Detainee trembled uncontrollably until confederate talked to him to calm him down. Confederate asked the detainee “what is your case” and detainee declared “it is big” and began to cry. 1130: Detainee taken to bathroom and walked 10 minutes. 1145: Corpsman checked vitals and changed ankle bandages to prevent chafing. Pulse was slightly elevated and corpsman elected to recheck a couple of hours later. Control started session with Drill Instructor approach and continued reinforcing the lessons of the previous day. Detainee remembered the lessons of previous day and saluted control when he entered the booth. Detainee initially refused water so control poured a little on detainee’s head. Detainee then accepted the water and food. 1230: Detainee offered food and water – ate one MRE and drank two bottles of water. Control continued DI approach and instructed detainee to tell about his trip from Orlando to Afghanistan. Control wrote itinerary on a dry erase board with dates and time spans and showed the detainee that he would have arrived in Mazar e SECRET ORCON Sharif Sep. 14, 2001, and would have been in Kandahar during the most intense bombing. Detainee was shown the stupidity of the cover story. Detainee began to become angry with the DI approach and control decided to end the session rather than have the detainee start resisting. 1400: Detainee taken to bathroom and walked 10 minutes. 1415: Corpsman checked vitals – O.K. Lead entered the booth and began to talk about Afghanistan and it’s terrain. Lead then began to speak about the terrain in the U.S. When lead got to the terrain in Florida, the detainee asked if Orlando was close to Florida. Lead ridiculed detainee for not knowing that Orlando was a city in the state of Florida and launched into the circumstantial evidence theme with a futility approach. Lead told detainee that he was stupid and that is why no one will believe the stupid cover story he has used. Lead stated the evidence against the detainee was enough for lead to believe detainee was guilty, and detainee stated that that was the lead’s opinion. Lead replied that everyone had the same opinion about detainee. Detainee stated that he hoped the other interrogators did not share this opinion. Detainee was told that his only hope of leniency was a change of heart and a desire to do good. 1600: Detainee taken to bathroom and walked 10 minutes. 1700: Detainee given a nap. 1800: Third shift began; detainee was woken from his nap. Interrogation began with SGT M and a DOD linguist. the interrogation began with what we know, mainly with the time line he had given in the previous shift, the detainee seemed disturbed and stated that the whole timeline was wrong and then tried to say that he was confused by the times he had gave. When asked “How long after you tried to enter America did you spend in UAE” the answer was about a month and half which is similar to the timeline in the previous shift. The detainee tried to act as if he had a mental problem, but when I jumped up and told him not to start faking that condition he regained his composure, it was the only time I’ve ever seen him do that but he has tried that tactic on other shifts. 1930: Detainee was taken to latrine and exercised. 2000: M.D. checked the detainee out every thing ok. 2030: Detainee ate an MRE and drank one and half bottles of water. 2100: Circumstantial evidence was the next theme used, the detainee was reminded that all the evidence shows that he is Al Qaida and that it is time to tell the truth, detainee sat there in silence for a about a minute and seemed as he was going to let it all out, but stuck to his story again. The detainee is thinking a lot more on the themes when presented to him, seems to be on the verge of breaking. 2230: Detainee was taken to the latrine and exercised. 2330: Detainee laid down for a 30 minute nap. 2400: Interrogation over. 25 DECEMBER 2002 0030: Detainee taken to bathroom and walked 15 minutes. 0045: Interrogation began with interrogator speaking plainly to the detainee that his cover story was a lie and because he kept lying, he would not get a chance to SECRET ORCON return to Delta. Interrogator stated that a smart man would not do this. Interrogator asked detainee if he was stupid or afraid, and eventually concluded the detainee was just stupid because the detainee’s past and continued actions were what brought and kept him here. Detainee became more and more angry with this line or reasoning and stated that he was on strike. Interrogator poured one half bottle of water over detainee’s head and yelled that the detainee was not in control in the booth, that the interrogator decided everything that happened to him, but the detainee could take that power away by simply telling the truth. Detainee yelled back that the interrogator did this to him and the rest of the bottle was poured over the detainee’s head to illustrate the point that the interrogator was in control. 0230: Detainee taken to bathroom and walked 30 minutes. 0300: Detainee offered water and refused. Interrogator poured some water on detainee’s head and detainee decided to drink a half bottle of water. Interrogator began to play cards with MP to ignore the detainee due to a BSCT assessment that the interrogators may be becoming the family figures of the detainee, and the interrogator wanted to see if the detainee would try to seek attention. The detainee tried to interrupt the card game by saying “You choose to pour water on me, you do this to me,” and “I don’t understand why you pour water on me when I refuse to drink, I decide when I’m thirsty”. The interrogator laughed at the detainee and replied that the interrogator controlled all in the booth, and the detainee chose to stay in the booth. Detainee started falling asleep so interrogator had detainee stand up for 30 minutes. 0430: Detainee given a nap. 0600: Detainee awakened from nap and interrogator again asked detainee what he hoped to gain by being here. Interrogator asked detainee why his hands were clenched and detainee replied that he was cold so interrogator wrapped blanket around detainee and continued the futility approach. 0645: Interrogator left detainee with linguist to ponder what he had been told. Linguist talked to detainee as arranged by the interrogator and reinforced the futility approach, telling him that AQ was destroyed and no one would be coming to help him. The linguist also told him not to be afraid of anyone if he told the truth because God would help him. The linguist suggested that the detainee give some bits of truth and see how his treatment improved. 0700: Interrogator and linguist entered the booth and reinforced the futility approach. Detainee asked for breakfast and the interrogator gave him an MRE which he ate. 0725: Detainee taken to sleeping cell. 1200: Detainee is woken up, and taken to the bathroom. 1220: The detainee is placed in the interrogation booth and he is checked out by medical personnel. The detainee is dehydrated and given the choice of drinking water or receiving IV’s. The detainee refuses water and is given three IV’s. 1339: Detainee is given a bathroom break and exercised. Medical check conducted. 1440: Interrogation resumes. Interrogator begins theme that all this will stop if the detainee simply tells the truth. The topic of respect was discussed and how his family must be disappointed with him. 1515: Detainee is given a bathroom break and exercised. Medical check conducted. SECRET ORCON 1535: Detainee is given MRE and he eats it and drinks 1 bottle of water. 1600: Interrogations resume. Detainee was told about leadership and detainee stated that he did not want to be a leader and did not want any responsibilities. 1715: Detainee is given a bathroom and exercise break. Medical check conducted. 1735: Interrogation resumes. Detainee was asked about his trip prior to Orlando and detainee stated that he went to UAE, Pakistan, then Afghanistan the summer of 2000, and the interrogator asked where he received his AQ training. Detainee stated he was not AQ and the interrogator asked him why he went to AF the summer of 2000. Detainee then stated that it was the summer of 2001 when he went. 1750: Interrogation ends. Detainee was offered water throughout the day and refused. 1810: Detainee refused water. He was sent to the latrine and exercised. The medic wrapped left arm because it contained the housing unit for an IV. 1929: Detainee refused water. He was exercised and sent to the latrine. Detainee spoke in English when the female interrogator invaded his personal space. 2022: Detainee was given a latrine break and exercised. He refused water. The interrogator was talking to the detainee about his inability to get into the US in Orlando, and the detainee stated that he would have gotten in if he had filled out the INS paper himself, he would have gotten into the country. The interrogator had the detainee write the word “business” five times on a piece of paper, but the detainee had to have coaching to write the word. 2208: Detainee continued to refuse to drink water. He was taken to the latrine and exercised. 2315: Detainee was given an exercise break. The medic checked his vitals and they were normal. His blood pressure was 117/74 and his pulse rate was 62 while standing. His blood pressure was 118/79 and his pulse rate was 53 while sitting. 2350: Detainee was given a complete meal ready to eat and a bottle of water. He did not refuse to eat or drink. He completed his meal to include the water. 26 DECEMBER 2002 0001: Detainee was eating his food (given by the previous team). Lead walked into booth turned on white noise and put picture binder of swimsuit models over detainees neck. 0030: Lead entered the booth and began attention to detail approach. Detainee missed 3 of 10 questions. He has learned to provide more details and provides enough information to substantiate his answers. He still has a problem paying attention to detail and fabricates information not on pictures. Control berated the detainee about the fabrication he provided to questions of the pictures and compared this fabrication to the fabrication of story told regarding his travel to the US and Afghanistan. Lead then began the circumstantial evidence / futility approach. Lead covered circumstantial evidence in detail and told the detainee that the evidence does not lie. 0200: Detainee was exercised and taken to bathroom. Detainee refused water. When detainee returned to booth lead played cards and ignored detainee. Lead berated detainee throughout. SECRET ORCON 0400: Detainee was exercised and taken to bathroom. Detainee refused water. 0430: Detainee was instructed to sleep. 0630: Detainee was woken up by lead. Lead used a futility approach describing standard of living here vs standard of living at delta with his brothers. Detainees vitals were taken. Detainee drank 2 bottles of water. Detainee was instructed to pray. After the prayer he was told that he could look forward to having prayers anytime he chooses at delta. Lead emphasized that detainee knows what he has to do to go back to his brothers in delta. He was told to think about it and instructed to go to his cell and eat then go to sleep. 0730: Detainee departed to his cell to eat and sleep. 1115: Detainee awakened and taken to the head. Detainee was then walked for 10 minutes. 1130: Interrogation team entered the booth, IS1 E , SGT B and a DOD Linguist. Futility and Circumstantial Evidence were covered. 1230: Detainee was offered and refused water. 1300: Head Break and 10 minute exercise. 1330: Detainee refused Meal and water. Detainee was instructed that jihadism and terrorism were different, but detainee shook his head “no” indicating that he thought they were the same. 1500: Head break and 10 minute exercise. Detainee was given the silent treatment during this next session. He did not attempt to speak to interrogators. 1630: Head break and 10 minute exercise. 1700: Detainee ate 1 MRE and drank 1 bottle of water. IS1 E continued engaging the detainee in conversation in an attempt to keep communication flowing and with long term intentions of limiting the topics until the detainee is driven to speak only of his Al Qaida associations. 1810: Detainee was exercised for circulation and taken to the latrine. 1930: Detainee was sent to the latrine and exercised. He did not want any water. 1945: The doctor checked the detainee. The doctor looked at the detainee’s back to ensure there were no abrasions from sitting in the metal chair for long periods of time. The doctor said everything was good. 2030: Detainee stated that SGT L would be the cause of him committing suicide. He requested to write a will. His request was granted and he wrote a will with a crayon. Lead had will translated and it was a request that if he died here to have his body and passport sent back to his country quickly and to notify his mother. Lead entered booth with the detainee’s will and told detainee that since he had allowed the detainee this opportunity, what would the detainee offer in return. The detainee said “thank you” and lead stated that was not enough. Lead told detainee that a single truth would be enough and asked the detainee “who recruited you into Al Qaida?” Detainee stated he was not Al Qaida and lead tore up the detainee’s will in front of him. 2100: Detainee was taken to the latrine and exercised. He was given a meal ready to eat and a bottle of water. He ate all of the meal and drank all of the water. 2220: Detainee was given a latrine break and exercised for approximately 10 minutes. He does not desire water. 2330: Detainee was taken to the latrine and exercised. SECRET ORCON 27 December 2002 0001: Lead entered the booth and offered water to detainee – refused. Lead poured the water over the detainee’s head and offered a second bottle of water – refused. Lead poured the second bottle over the detainee’s head. Lead confronted detainee with the inconsistent stories he had given about his family members. Detainee stated that he was afraid for his family because he didn’t trust us. 0100: Detainee was taken to bathroom and walked 10 minutes. The “attention to detail” theme was run with the fitness model photos. The detainee answered five questions correctly and was told that we would not run the attention to detail lesson again unless we felt that he was not giving details about the questions we asked him. 0200: Detainee taken to bathroom and walked 10 minutes. The detainee was told that since he could now provide detailed answers, he would review the location of the visa office where he had obtained his US visa. Maps were used and the detainee was questioned to see if he could properly estimate distance on the maps. The detainee was accurate in this line of questioning. The questioning provided the following information: Name of visa office: M Owner: K Worker #1: K Worker #2: F Location: Shari Al Ulayya street approximately 2km n/o Shar A Mahar in the Al Ulayya district of Riyadh. Grid coordinate: 7031 Map used: Saudi Arabia graphic Map name: Ar Riyad Scale: 1:25,000 Edition: 5-NIMA Series: K9611 Sheet: 4 0400: Detainee taken to bathroom and walked 10 minutes. Detainee was offered water – refused. Detainee was told to go to sleep. 0600: Detainee awakened, taken to bathroom, and walked 10 minutes. Corpsman checked vitals – O.K. Detainee offered food and water – ate one MRE and drank two bottles of water. 0715: Detainee taken to sleep cell for sleep period. 1100: Detainee awakened, taken to bathroom, and exercised 10 minutes. 1120: Detainee offered water – refused. Lead began by asking the detainee why he wanted to write a will. Detainee was evasive and finally stated that he didn’t want SECRET ORCON to answer that question. When asked if he was going to try to commit suicide, the detainee stated “no”, but death had been entering his mind lately. The detainee was allowed to rewrite his will (it was essentially the same as that written the previous day). Control began discussing the condemnation of UBL by Islamic leaders. 1300: Detainee taken to bathroom and walked 10 minutes. 1315: Detainee offered food and water – refused. Control continued discussion about UBL, fatwas, and leading clerics. 1415: Detainee taken to bathroom and walked 10 minutes. Control continued theme and steered it towards levels of guilt and how AQ personnel were cooperating and reducing their levels of guilt by doing so. Control told detainee about witness protection program without making any offers of protection. 1530: Detainee taken to bathroom and walked 10 minutes. Lead entered the booth and began talking about detainee’s youth. 1630: Detainee taken to bathroom and walked 10 minutes. Detainee offered water – refused. Lead continued by talking about how some people use religion to prey upon young people, and mislead them into doing things that are wrong. Lead told detainee that it appeared the detainee was having trouble asking God for forgiveness. Lead explained process in Christianity for asking forgiveness. 1800: Detainee taken to bathroom and walked 10 minutes. 1815: Corpsman took vitals – O.K. 1820: Interrogation began with circumstantial evidence by SGT M. Detainee was very resistant, possibly due to presence of LT G. Detainee gave descriptive information on the person at the car dealership in Riyadh and the person who was supposed to meet him in Orlando. The information given was in keeping with his cover story. 1910: Lt G began interrogation by talking about fear and trust, and how the truth is easy to recall but lies take effort, and someone who is tired will have trouble telling the same lies all the time. Detainee offered that he would tell the truth to LT because he felt he could trust the LT and gave his brother’s and sister’s names as well as his father’s name and phone number. This list is nearly identical to a listing of siblings given by him on 9 APR 02, which tend to indicate this information is truthful. LT asked detainee why he gave different information to the other interrogators and detainee stated that he didn’t trust the others. LT began explaining that since the detainee spent so much time in AF that he must have useful information about AQ. Detainee repeatedly stated that he didn’t know anything about AQ and kept a severe frown on his face during this line of questioning. 2020: Detainee offered water – took one sip. 2025: Detainee taken to bathroom and walked 10 minutes. 2100: Detainee ate an MRE and drank a bottle of water. 2110: Circumstantial evidence theme was used by SGT M. The detainee seemed very responsive when told that not only the evidence was there but that a lot of the detainees are talking. 2200: Detainee exercised and given a latrine break. Detainee tripped stepping out of latrine. Corpsman looked detainee over and everything was O.K. Lt G SECRET ORCON continued interrogation and reminded the detainee that there was only one way out. LT explained to detainee why the U.S. was doing the things it was due to being at war. 2308: Detainee offered water – took one sip. 2335: Detainee taken to bathroom and walked 15 minutes. 28 December 2002 0001: Lead entered booth and gave detainee option to drink 1-1/2 bottles of water during the shift. Detainee related that he would rather take an IV and did not want to drink water at this time. Lead berated detainee on his choice and introduced circumstantial evidence of K’s connection to a NGO which served as a front for Al Qaida. Lead berated detainee and left booth. Control entered booth and told detainee to drink bottle of water. Control told detainee that he was walking out of booth and that by the time control returned detainee should have better have drank the water or else he would be wearing it. Control walked out for about 5 minutes and returned to booth. Detainee had drank the water. 0100: Detainee taken to bathroom and exercised 10 minutes. Detainee offered water – refused. 0200: Control entered the booth and began to question the detainee about personalities he knows in Riyahd, SA. 0400: Detainee was instructed to go to sleep. 0500: Detainee was woken up, taken to bathroom and exercised. 0530: Lead introduced circumstantial evidence and elaborated on how detainee’s story did not coincide with his story. 0630: Control used a p/e down / futility approach on detainee and detailed his life here vs life in Cuba with his brothers. Detainee was told to pray and told that upon completing his prayers he would be walked to his cell where he would eat and drink water. Control left the room and was called back by MPs. MPs told control that detainee stated he was on strike from food and water. Control instructed detainee to get up from prayer and berated detainee about his remarks (fasting on food and water). Detainee was then instructed to go to his cell for sleep time. 1130: Detainee awakened, taken to bathroom, and walked 10 minutes. Detainee appeared tired and interrogator questioned him about this. Detainee finally stated that sometimes a person has something new come up, possibly referring to his conversations with the confederate detainee. The topic of Shia muslims was brought up and the detainee stated that Shia did not believe in the prophet Mohammed. 1145: Corpsman checked vitals. Vitals were O.K. but indicated that detainee was close to dehydration. 1230: Detainee offered food – ate one MRE. Detainee given three bags of IV. 1300: Detainee taken to bathroom and walked 10 minutes. Topic of animals was discussed with interrogator telling of the type of animals in the U.S. Detainee broke out in tears and cried for half an hour. Detainee talked about the wonderment of God and asked God for forgiveness several times. Detainee told SECRET ORCON interrogator a story about a young man from an evil city who found God by looking over creation from a hill, then returned to the city and fell back into sin, and finally returned to the hill and found the strength to sin no more. 1500: Detainee taken to bathroom and walked 10 minutes. Interrogator clarified the differences between Shia and Sunni muslims. 1545: Detainee given one hour nap. 1645: Detainee awakened, taken to bathroom and walked 10 minutes. Detainee asked interrogator about prayers in Christianity and eventually asked to pray. Interrogator told detainee that he was denied prayer because he had lied and disrespected the interrogators. Interrogator told detainee that his supervisor told him that prayer could be granted if the detainee gave something up first. 1800: Detainee was exercised, taken to the latrine, and the medic on shift checked his vitals everything was o.k. The interrogation began with SGT M as lead and a DOD linguist, levels of guilt theme was the first theme used as the detainee had been crying profusely in the previous shift about a story of Allah’s forgiveness. SGT M asked the detainee the reason of why he had cried so much the detainee began telling the same story and was stopped, and told that I knew the story already just to tell me the real reason of why he was crying. The detainee went on to tell me that something tragic happened in his life today and he could not tell me. I kept on but the detainee would not give it up. The detainee went on to tell me that today he felt very spiritual and he could not keep the tears in. I told him “why today should he not feel this way every day”, and he told me again that something tragic in his life had occurred and again he did not want to talk about it. I asked him if because of the story he had finally realized that his involvement with Al Qaeda was wrong and the mission to America was wrong. I told him that everyone makes mistakes, he stated “no according to Al Qaeda this situation is a headache”, and I asked him to repeat, and then he realized what he had said, so he started on his treatment and that this is not the way to do an investigation, and I reminded him that this was not an investigation. 2000: The detainee was seen by the doctor and reminded that he needed to drink water. Latrine brake and exercised. 2100: Detainee ate an MRE and drank a bottle of water. The detainee was asked if he had ever talked to a Saudi official while he has been detained and the detainee replied yes, then he was asked if his living conditions where better then, and how long ago had it been since the officials had spoken to him. He replied that his living conditions where worse and it had been so long that he could not remember even what they looked like. I asked him if the Saudi government still wants him and he replied yes, then I asked him then why are you here and the detainee replied “because of the investigation”. I once again reminded him that this is not an investigation and that his government does not care about him and that is the reason he now belongs to the United States of America. The detainee seemed very shocked by this as if he had never put much thought in to this subject. 2130: Detainee taken to the latrine and exercised. Medic check his vitals everything ok. The detainee was reminded that his involvement and actions taken by Al Qaeda have defaced Islam and that they are the reason that Muslims are not liked around the world. The detainee became extremely aggravated and started saying no that it SECRET ORCON was our fault and caught himself and started again on his treatment I told him to humor me and tell me about interrogations, he told me to tell the guards to show there face and take him back to Cuba, so I laughed at him uncontrollably, and the detainee got quiet. Once again I reminded him that only his cooperation would get him out of this situation. 2345: Detainee taken to the latrine and exercised. Medic check his vitals everything ok. 2400: 3rd shift interrogation over. 29 December 2002 0000: Detainee taken to bathroom and walked 10 minutes. 0015: Interrogation began with p/e down, fear up, and futility. Whenever detainee tried to speak, lead instructed him to shut up. Whenever detainee appeared too comfortable, lead instructed him to stand up and sit down several times. Al Qaida falling apart and circumstantial evidence were themes used. 0200: Detainee offered water – refused, so lead poured it over detainee’s head. Detainee taken to bathroom and walked 15 minutes. Interrogator continued same approach and detainee became very angry. 0330: Detainee offered water – refused, so lead poured _ bottle over detainee’s head. 0345: Detainee instructed to sleep. 0530: Detainee awakened and offered water – refused, so lead poured it over detainee’s head. Approach continued. 0645: Detainee taken to bathroom, walked, and taken to sleep cell. Detainee was given MRE to eat while in sleep cell. 1130: Detainee awakened, taken to bathroom and walked. 1200: Detainee offered food and water – ate 2 MREs, banana, pears, and cookies, drank 2 bottles of water. Interrogator revisited the theme of high-level AQ talking and being protected in a witness protection program. 1335: Detainee taken to bathroom and walked. 1430: Detainee taken to bathroom and walked. Interrogator instructed MPs to unshackle the detainee except for his legs to let him feel what it was like and gave the detainee a chance to make a decision to talk. Detainee refused and was reshackled. 1535: Detainee taken to bathroom and walked. Interrogator continued discussions of heaven. 1630: Detainee taken to bathroom and walked. Interrogation continued with detainee becoming unresponsive. 1740: Detainee taken to bathroom and walked. 1800: Detainee refused food and water. Detainee said that he had thought about 2A0773 earlier during the day and was surprised him. It had been approximately one month since 2A0773 has interrogated detainee. Detainee thought that it was a good sign. Detainee seemed fairly talkative and relaxed. Discussion ensued about “God’s will” and about why detainee was saved when the other 19 terrorists were killed. 1845: Detainee refused food and water. Futility and Al-Qaida falling apart were SECRET ORCON discussed. Detainee was relatively unresponsive and seemed relatively comfortable. 1930: Detainee refused food and water and did not need to use the latrine. 2030: Detainee seemed too comfortable. He was questioned about why he was unaffected by our discussion of the victims of 9/11. Detainee immediately sat up in his chair. BSCT observed that detainee does not like it when the interrogator points out his nonverbal responses. Detainee professed his innocence and interrogator laughed. At this point, detainee made a comment about the interrogators nonverbal responses to try to take control of the interrogation. Detainee stated, somewhat sarcastically, that he was very happy that the interrogator was laughing and enjoying himself. Detainee refused water. 2115: Detainee refused food and water. 2200: Discussion ensued about the why people join terrorist groups. Two quotes were read from the book What Makes a Terrorist and Why? The first quote asserted that people join terrorist groups for a sense of belonging, something that they are unable to find in normal social circumstances. The second quote pointed out that terrorist must dehumanize their victims and avoid thinking in terms of guilt and innocence. P&E down was also incorporated into the discussion and interrogator expressed understanding about why detainee would join a terrorist group after so many failures. Detainee seemed unresponsive. Detainee refused food, water, and restroom break. 2215: Detainee walked around the interrogation booth for approximately 10 minutes. 2230: Detainee refused water. 2320: Detainee refused food and water. 2330: Medical check – O.K. Detainee refused food and water. Detainee went to latrine and exercised for approximately 5 minutes. 2400: Second shift ended. 30 December 2002 0001: After detainee was exercised and used the bathroom, lead entered the booth and subjected detainee to white noise. Waiting for linguist. 0100: Linguist arrives. Detainee drank _ bottle of water. Lead began to question detainee on his contacts in Abu Dhabi, UAE. 0200: Detainee was exercised and taken to the bathroom. He drank _ bottle of water. Upon returning to the booth questioning of known contacts in Abu Dhabi, UAE continued. 0330: Detainee was exercised for 10 minutes and taken to the bathroom. Detainee drank _ bottle of water. Upon returning from booth questioning of known contacts in Abu Dhabi, UAE continued. The following personalities were obtained from detainee regarding known contacts in Abu Dhabi, UAE and should be crossed referenced with previous mfr’s to identify new personalities and differences in known contacts(refer to MFR for further details on personalities): SECRET ORCON 1. Z 2. M 3. A 4. A 5. M 6. H 0530: Detainee instructed to go to sleep in booth. 0630: Detainee was woken up and lead began a futility/ p/e down approach. Lead reminded detainee that he could have a better life in Cuba with his brothers but he chooses to remain here. 0645: Detainee was taken to his cell and told to eat and drink his water. 1100: Detainee awakened from x-ray, given a head break and 10 minutes exercise. 1215: Head break and 10 minutes exercise. 1230: 1 MRE and 1 bottle of water. Detainee asked for prayer time and was told that he would not get prayer time back until he demonstrated a genuine change of heart. 1340: Head break and 10 minutes exercise. Detainee was exploited on cover story and provided detail on timeline from Orlando to AF to PK. Interrogator matched all detainee movements to AQ movements during Northern Alliance offensive in AF. 1500: Head break and 10 minutes exercise. Detainee was exploited on personalities in cover story. All personalities were checked against know terrorists and all the names matched the names of known terrorists. The first name of his best friend (he stopped before he would tell the last name) matches the name of the pilot of the fourth hijacked airliner on 9-11. 1630: Head break and 10 minutes exercise. The detainee continued to provide information on his cover story and drew a strip map for the location of his father’s home in Saudi Arabia. 1830: Head break and 10 minutes exercise. 1845: 1 MRE and 1 bottle of water. 2000: Head break and 10 minutes exercise. 2015: Nap. 2130: Detainee awakened, taken to bathroom and walked. Lead entered the booth and told detainee that they would continue the topic of the previous night about people the detainee knew. Detainee offered water – refused, so interrogator poured it over the detainee’s head. Interrogator berated detainee for lack of compliance. Interrogator left the booth and MPs began checking detainee’s restraints. Detainee raised his hands towards MPs in an aggressive manner and MPs restrained detainee. 2200: Detainee walked for one hour. Interrogators berated detainee during walk. 2300: Detainee returned to booth and was subject to instrumental music. Detainee began to cry and interrogators returned and yelled at detainee to prevent him from crying in order to prevent him having an emotional release. 2350: Detainee tried to cry again and was yelled at by interrogators. Detainee not allowed to speak by yelling of interrogators. 31 December 2002 SECRET ORCON 0015: Detainee taken to bathroom and walked. Interrogator played cards with MP in front of detainee. 0130: Detainee offered water – refused. 0230: Detainee taken to bathroom and walked. Detainee was told that his actions were the cause of his treatment. 0300: Detainee given 2 hour nap. 0500: Detainee was asked if he had ever been to Kabul and it was pointed out on a map that he would have to have gone through Kabul if he had driven from Mazar E Sharif to Kandahar as he related in his stories. Detainee stated that he must have been asleep during that part of the trip. Interrogator told detainee that others had identified him as being at a safe house in Kabul. Detainee stated that he did not know these brothers and became very angry. 0600: Detainee was subject to music for one hour. 0700: Detainee taken to sleeping cell. 1100: Detainee was escorted from cell. Detainee was exercised and given the chance to go to the restroom. Detainee was placed in interrogation booth. 1200: 2a0780 entered booth. Detainee was given an MRE, detainee looked at it as if he was going to decline it, but 2a0780 looked at detainee and said his name and then told him to take it. Detainee took MRE and a pear, detainee drank a bottle of water as well. 2a0780 started asking detainee about his travels. 2a0780 asked detainee to tell all of the people he had come in contact with in U.A.E.. Detainee gave the following names: 1. A 2. F 3. Z 4. M 5. H 6. A For a more detailed report on the above listed names please reference 30 dec 02, 1st shift report. Detainee has provided these names before, with a physical description. 1400: Detainee was exercised and taken to the bathroom. He refused water. Upon returning to the booth control entered the booth and asked detainee how he was doing. Control explained to detainee how he had initiated the treatment he received during the 1st shift by his own actions. Control explained to detainee levels of cooperation to be released from this camp and that up to the point where he refused to take the water bottle he was slowly moving up. However, his poor judgment and actions caused him to drop on the level of cooperation. Control explained that as he drops in level of cooperation his treatment becomes worse. Control explained that the treatment he received during the 1st shift was not even the bottom of the scale and it could get worse. Detainee agreed that he had brought the treatment on himself by his actions. SECRET ORCON Control than began to ask detainee about business contacts he has in Abu Dhaby, UAE. Detainee provided the following names of business and the poc: (REFER O MFR FOR DETAILS) 1. M 2. M 1530: Detainee was exercised and taken to the bathroom. Upon returning to the booth control began to question detainee about his contacts in dubai, uae and provided the following information: (refer to MFR for details) 1. M 2. While in Dubai detainee stayed at the Shalihut Dubai Montaza Alame A Tervi Resort. 3. After arriving in Dubai, detainee contacted M and M. He called M from a public phone in the Dubai market place. M told the detainee that he could return to the USA if he chose to and could travel with the following: - M - F - S Detainee also related that A conducts business with Sharikat Al Basri company that imports/ exports vehicles from the USA/Japan. 1630: Detainee was exercised and taken to the bathroom. He drank sips of his water. Upon returning to the booth control began to question detainee about his finances. The detainee provided the following information about bank accounts he has used: 1. Abu Dhaby bank- located in Abu Dhaby, UAE. 2. Riyadh bank- located in Harj city on Shari Al Masanah street. 3. Al Rajhi bank- located in Al Harj city on Shari Al Masanah street. Detainee related that the bank accounts were under his name (Mohammed Manah Al Qahtani) and his brothers name (I) and were open at the time he left for Afghanistan. 1830: Detainee was exercised and taken to the bathroom at 1830 hours. He drank _ bottle of water. 1920: Corpsman checked the detainees vitals and were within normal limits. Detainee was instructed to sleep. 2100: Detainee awakened, head break and 15 minute walk. 2120: Interrogation team entered booth, IS1 E , SGT R and a DOD linguist. Interrogators began with “Al Qaida falling apart” theme and gave detainee a history lesson on the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor and the ultimate result of the war. 2315: Head break and 30 minute walk. Detainee returned to booth and started to fall asleep, but MPs woke him up. Detainee tried to pray, but interrogator berated detainee to make him stop. 01 January 2003 0000: Head break and 10 minute walk. Lead enter the booth and told detainee to pick a topic to talk about. Detainee asked lead to pick a topic and control said they SECRET ORCON would talk about the detainee’s trip from Mazar E Sharif to Kandahar and how he must have gone through Kabul. Detainee denied he was Kabul even though other detainees identified him as being at a safe house there. 0100: Detainee given cup of coffee. Detainee was told that he would not be respected as long as he refused to tell the truth, and that he would not go home or to Cuba until he told the truth. Detainee interrupted control during a fear up – p/e down approach so control poured a bottle of water over detainee’s head. Lead entered booth alone and talked to detainee about horse riding and the detainee stated it was a religious duty to learn to ride a horse. Lead asked if the Koran said this and detainee stated a Hadith stated this, that a man should teach his sons how to ride a horse and use a sword. Lead stated that the verse really meant a father should teach his children everything they need to know in order to survive, and should not be taken literally. 0230: Head break and nap. 0345: Awakened, head break and 10 minute walk. Lead resumed conversation on horse riding verse and detainee agreed that it probably meant a father should teach his children the necessities of life. Lead steered conversation to topic of how UBL could convince 19 people to kill themselves and other innocents. Detainee was evasive on topic. 0500: Head break and 10 minute walk. Topic was changed to detainee’s current situation and the futility of continued resistance. Lead asked detainee what he was thinking and he replied “I have a very difficult decision”. 0700: Taken to cell in x-ray for sleep, given MRE. 0730: Detainee had thrown MRE out of cell, it was returned to him by control, detainee ate this and drank 1 bottle of water. DETAINEE WAS GIVEN 12 HOURS IN HIS SLEEP CELL. MPs gave the detainee two MREs and water during the rest period. 1900: Detainee was escorted from cell. Detainee was exercised and given the chance to go to the restroom. Detainee was placed in interrogation booth. 1930: 2A0780 and control entered booth, 2A0780 asked detainee how he was feeling, detainee responded he was well. Detainee looked well rested. Detainee was given a MRE, detainee looked at it as if he was going to decline it, so 2A0780 took MRE away, detainee quickly changed his mind and took the MRE and an apple. Detainee also drank a bottle of water. 2000: 2A0780 and control started talking to detainee about trivial things, how he was feeling how things were going. 2A0780 drew a diagram on the white board of a bridge over a pit of fire, the bridge had little razors on it. Detainee was told that this was the “Sirat” or a diagram of “judgment day” detainee was told on judgment day everyone will be sorted out by beliefs. Control asked detainee what are some of your greatest sins, what do you feel sorry about, detainee stated not taking care of his parents, not finishing school, and not repaying his aunt. (detainee borrowed $20,000 from his aunt) . 2A0780 told detainee that he was only looking out for detainee. This was all done to lead detainee in to the next line of questions. SECRET ORCON 2045: Detainee was exercised and taken to the bathroom. He drank water. 2130: Detainee returned to booth and related the following regarding his travel to Pakistan and people he contacted (refer to MFR): 1. M 2. A 2245: Detainee was exercised and taken to the bathroom. 2300: Detainee returned to the booth. 2A0780 entered the booth a began talking to detainee about what the Quran says about justice for orphans. 2A0780 ask detainee what made 19 young Saudi Arabian men want to kill themselves, detainee stated he was unsure, but maybe they were tricked. 2A0780 asked how could one man, Bin Laden, convince 19 young men to kill themselves, (detainee was starting to fade he was going in and out of sleep.) The question was repeated, detainee stated that they were tricked, that he distorted the picture if front of them, 2A0780 asked detainee if this made him mad, detainee stated yes, (detainee did not realize that 2A780 had now started putting detainee into the picture) 2A0780 asked detainee if he was mad that his friends had been tricked, detainee stated yes. 2A0780 asked detainee if his friends knew about the plan, detainee stated no, 2A0780 asked if detainee knew about the plan, detainee stated no, 2A0780 asked detainee if anyone knew about the plan, detainee stated yes. 2A0780 asked detainee if Mohammed Atta knew about the plan, detainee stated that he didn’t know. 2A0780 asked detainee if it made him mad that he killed his friends, detainee stated yes. 2A0780 asked detainee if he was glad that he didn’t die on the plane, detainee stated yes. 2A0780 asked detainee if his parents were happy that he didn’t die detainee stated yes. 2A0780 stated “he killed your friends” detainee stated yes. 2A0780 asked detainee if his parents were happy that he wasn’t on the plane, detainee stated yes. 2A0780 asked did you call your parents after you didn’t get on the plane, detainee stated no. 2A0780 asked detainee you knew getting on the plane was wrong, detainee stated yes, 2A0780 then asked but you still wanted to fight, detainee stated yes. Detainee was having difficulty staying awake at this time. Detainee was becoming non responsive. 2359: Medics evaluated detainee and gave detainee IV. 02 January 2003 0100: 2nd Shift interrogation team entered booth. IS1 E, SGT R and a DOD linguist. Detainee was receiving his 3 bags of IV. Interrogators offered detainee coffee and detainee refused. Interrogators told detainee that since he was being disrespectful, he would not be treated nicely this session. Detainee was shown the Bin Laden shrine and told that he could only pray to Bin Laden. Detainee was subject to loud music and yelling. 0315: Detainee offered and accepted 1 bottle of water. 0330: Detainee taken to head and given 30 minutes exercise. Detainee began yelling in rage but interrogators yelled louder to shut him up. 0530: Detainee given head break and 10 minutes exercise. Detainee was told that he could not use the words “car” or “falcon” and was then asked questions about his cover story. SECRET ORCON 0700: Head break and 10 minutes exercise. Detainee taken to sleep cell. 0730: MRE and bottle of water given to detainee in sleep cell. PSYOP TO REMOVE CONFEDERATE COMMENCES 0815: Amublance arrives and confederate detainee is told that the information he gave last night checked out, so the interrogators will keep their promise to send him to a better place to be with his cousins. A linguist was used to interpret to the detainee could overhead and understand the exchange. The confederate was shackled at the ankles and allowed to carry the fruit and Koran with him. As the confederate entered the ambulance, he shouted to the detainee “God guide and direct you” in Arabic. The detainee shouted a reply that was not loud enough to hear, but the tone of voice indicated that it was a similar response. 1100: Detainee taken to bathroom and walked 10 minutes. 1130: Detainee instructed to clean the interrogation booth. Interrogator asked detainee how he felt. Detainee stated he was tired and had a bad night so he didn’t sleep well. Detainee offered water – declined. 1200: Interrogator discussed the razor bridge over hell, recovering the topic from the previous day. Interrogator covered major sins and virtues of Islam. 1300: Detainee taken to bathroom and walked 10 minutes. Interrogator took the big brother approach and explained how he was trying to help the detainee. Detainee offered water and drank. Interrogator asked detainee about his joint account with his oldest brother. Interrogator exploited details about the detainee’s construction company. 1500: Detainee subject to music. Interrogator reminded detainee that failure to provide details when answering would make him look like a liar. 1600: Detainee taken to bathroom and walked 10 minutes. Detainee drank a half bottle of water. Detainee was subject to music. 1800: Interrogator started big brother approach and reminded that he had done better the previous day and did not need to slip backwards. Interrogator asked what the detainee missed and the detainee stated that he missed his freedom. 1935: Detainee was taken to bathroom and walked 10 minutes. 2000: Lt G enter the booth for one hour and talked to detainee about the way to heaven in Christianity and Islam, and how they differed slightly, but ended up the same at the end. LT told detainee that the detainee had to help LT to help him (detainee). Detainee said he would tell the truth and let LT know if he had any information. LT asked the detainee about Al Qaida, detainee responded with general comments and stated that he was not a member of Al Qaida, and he knew only things that everyone else would know. 2110: Detainee taken to bathroom and walked 10 minutes. Detainee was reintroduced to the rules from the previous day and was tested to see if he maintained compliance. Detainee was questioned about his trip from Mazar E Sharif to Kandahar with the use of a map. Detainee had previously denied ever being in Kabul but it was pointed out that he must have gone through Kabul to get to Kandahar. Detainee said that he had been through Kabul and apologized to interrogator. Interrogator awarded the detainee a respect point. SECRET ORCON 2230: Head break and 10 minute exercise. 2300: Medical check. Subj. appeared dehydrated, detainee drank 33 oz bottle of water. Interrogator began calming detainee by talking to him civilly, and started pointing out the resistance techniques the detainee was using as described in the Manchester Document. 03 January 2003 0030: Head break. 0100: Nap 0200: Awakened, given a head break and walked 10 minutes. Interrogator told detainee that it was not in his interest to deny involvement in AQ because there was already enough evidence against him to convict him. Interrogator gave several scenarios why the detainee would deny AQ involvement, and the detainee brought up the possibility that he was innocent, which drew a berating from the interrogator. Interrogator asked if he was afraid his family would be endangered – No; was he not being honest because he was still loyal to Bin Laden – No; was he not being honest because he thought it would be a sin – the detainee did not reply but furrowed his brow. Interrogator asked the question again and the detainee would only stare at the interrogator. 0300: Head break and 10 minutes walk. 0315: Offered water and MRE, refused. 0400: Head break and 10 minutes walk. 0530: Head break and 10 minutes walk. Interrogators began discussion on death and judgement. Detainee was asked if he was afraid of death – “No, death can be a great comfort”; asked if he feared the final judgement – “Yes”. Interrogators asked if he would have gone to Orlando if he had known the mission. Detainee replied “No”. 0630: Medical check – O.K. 0700: Taken to cell at x-ray and offered MRE and water – refused. Interrogators poured the bottle of water of over his head and took his food away. 1100: Detainee was escorted from cell. Detainee was exercised and given the chance to go to the restroom. Detainee was placed in interrogation booth and instructed to clean room. Detainee cleaned room and then ate 1 mre and drank 1 bottle of water. 1200: Detainees vitals were taken by corpsman. Corpsman related that detainee needed to drink water. Detainee was then given 2 bottles of water which he needed to complete prior to the shift ending. 2a0780 and 2a0761 entered booth and began to exploit detainees travel to Kandahar, Afghanistan. Refer to MFR for details. Detainee stated that while in Kandahar he only called the following: 1. His older brother I 2. M 3. A 4. His parent’s home in Riyadh SECRET ORCON 5. Z (he did not disclose this information at this time but would later be forced to disclose it when he contradicted himself.) While in Kandahar A introduced detainee to the following three people: (per detainee these are the only people he made contact with while in Kandahar) 1. S 2. Unknown name- works at Al Nuzha supermarket in the main market center. Detainee met with this person on 5 occasions while in Kandahar. 3. Unknown name- this person lives on a street near the airport. Detainee met with this person on at least 2 occasions. Detainee also related that he visited a place near Kandahar where people from the gulf states would meet to hunt for falcons (contradiction as to wanting to meet other arabs). Detainee stated that he attended 3 meetings, but when he was asked who was present at these meeting detainee stated that he would show up and no one was there. When asked how he knew about this meeting location of gulf state personnel he stated that Z from UAE had told him about this meeting place and he should go there when in Kandahar. 1315: Detainee was exercised and taken to the bathroom. Detainee returned to the booth and was questioned further on the meeting place he had mentioned. 1515: Detainee was exercised and taken to the bathroom. Detainee drank _ bottle of water. 1530: Detainee returned to booth and exposed to white noise. Interrogator covered how greedy and selfish the detainee was and talked about how the detainee had stated the he was more important that God or his family. 1815: Detainee taken to bathroom and walked 10 minutes. Interrogator discussed the theme of justice with detainee. Lights in the interrogation booth were turned off and candles were lit to provide subdued lighting, and relaxation/meditation music was played. Detainee became uncomfortable and asked for music to be turned off. 1900: Detainee taken to bathroom and walked 30 minutes. 1945: Detainee shown graphic victim photos. Detainee cried while viewing photos. Photos were spotlighted with a flashlight in subdued lighting while relaxation/meditation music was played. 2015: Interrogator returned and explained purpose of photos. 2120: Detainee given head break and 10 minute walk. 2135: Interrogation team entered booth, IS1 E , SGT R and a DOD linguist. Interrogators berated detainee for refusing food on previous day. Control covered the “rules for the day” approach. Control questioned detainee about why he had a German visa. Detainee stated he had never been to Germany. Interrogator told detainee that was not the question, and detainee stated that he didn’t get a German visa, he got a European visa. Detainee stated that he wanted a US visa but got a European visa by mistake. Detainee became evasive about details of the transaction. SECRET ORCON 2330: Head break and 10 minute walk. Lead told detainee to pick a topic for discussion. Detainee first wanted to talk about what he would do if he got out, then retracted and said he wanted to talk about Christianity. Interrogators berated detainee for making the retraction. Detainee then told interrogators he would like to get a job and have a wife. Interrogators helped detainee plan his life by drawing a pathway on the board with a split, and told him that he was at the split now, and must be truthful or he would never be able to go down the path he wanted. 04 January 2003 0130: Head break and 10 minute walk. Interrogators changed topic to Arabic history. Detainee exhibited ignorance of many significant Arabic events. 0200: drank 1 cup of coffee. Topic was changed to religious history. Detainee stated that half the detainees including himself did not become religious until they reached Cuba. Interrogators noted to detainee that religion did not seem to be what encouraged people to join AQ. 0300: Head break and 10 minute walk. Interrogators related that power and money might be motivators for people to join AQ. Interrogators asked detainee what his motivation was for joining AQ. Detainee did not answer and interrogator asked if it was too private a matter to discuss. Detainee answered “yes”. 0330: 1 MRE and 1 Bottle of water. 0400: Head break and nap. 0500: Detainee awakened, given head break and 10 minute walk. Interrogator covered some Arabian history and pointed out similarities between the US constitution and the Koran. Interrogator began circumstantial evidence theme with levels of guilt. Detainee was asked how he felt about the evidence against him and he responded that he thinks about it a lot and tries to diffuse some things against him and disprove others. A timeline was created for the detainee showing his events leading up to Orlando. Detainee was visibly affected by this approach and appeared to be near the point of crying. 0520: Medical check, OK. 0700: Head break, taken to x-ray to sleep and given 1 bottle of water. 1100: Detainee awakened, exercised, taken to bathroom and taken to booth. White noise in background 1130: 2a0761 and 2a0780 entered the booth and instructed detainee to clean room. Detainee cleaned room and drank water. 2a0780 then asked detainee about people that he had previously mentioned. M, A, A. 2a0780 had detainee describe these persons. Detainee stated that they were not religious. Detainee stated that he was not religious at the time and only became religious once he was detained. 1230: Detainee was exercised and taken to the bathroom. Detainee drank 8 ounces of water. 1245: Detainee was returned to booth. 2a0761 entered booth and began to question detainee about his travel from Kandahar, AF to Khost, AF. Detainee provided the following information and people he came in contact with: (refer to mfr for details) 1. A- Detainee described him … SECRET ORCON 1430: Detainee was exercised and taken to the bathroom. He was returned to the booth and exposed to white noise. 1530: Detainee was exercised and taken to the bathroom. Detainee was returned to booth where he drank 8 ounces of water. 1545: 2a0761 and 2a0780 entered the booth and covered detainee’s timeline from Orlando, Florida, USA to Khost, Pakistan. Detainee was told that the information he has provided is inaccurate since it does not coincide with the war in Afghanistan. He fails to mention any combat in the area at the time he was there or seeing military forces. 1630: Detainee was exercised and taken to the bathroom. Detainee returned to booth and subjected to white noise. 1730: Corpsman checked detainees vitals which were within normal range. 1830: Detainee exercised and taken to the bathroom. 1845: 2a0761 entered the booth and continued to questions detainee about his stay in Kandahar. He provided the following details: (refer to MFR). Detainee was berated for not mentioning details about his passport/visa and money when his trip from Kandahar to Khost was covered. Detainee also stated that if his health had improved he intended on returning to Mazar-e-Sharif to meet with M with the falcons he had acquired. Detainee was berated and told that his story is inconsistent and a lie. 2a0761 then walked out of the room with disgust. 2010: Lt G entered the booth and reinforced that the detainee needed to tell the whole truth and to answer all questions quickly and with detail. LT told detainee that interrogators would ask the same questions several times in order to be complete and thorough. LT also told detainee that he should apologize the next time he saw 2A0761. 2045: Detainee was exercised and taken to the bathroom. 2130: Drank 1 cup of coffee. Interrogators talked to detainee about guilt, leniency, and cultural inhibitions to telling the truth. 2300: Head break, 20 minute exercise. Interrogators began theme that the detainee had no hope of being found innocent, and must begin telling the whole truth to minimize the punishment he would receive. Interrogators feigned anger at detainee and taught detainee the steps to apologize which included admitting what he did, asking forgiveness, and making reparations. 05 January 2003 0100: Head break and 10 minute exercise. 0200: Source ate a cracker and drank a bottle of water he refused the rest of the MRE complaining of an upset stomach. Interrogators asked detainee if he thought he would be found innocent if he went to trial and the detainee stated “yes”. Interrogators explained to detainee that his only hope should be to cooperate so he could get leniency. 0300: Head break and 20 minute exercise. Interrogator continued with leniency theme. Interrogator then left booth so linguist could speak to detainee alone. Linguist SECRET ORCON recommended the detainee should tell the truth and detainee replied that he couldn’t. Detainee asked linguist “what will they do to me?”. Linguist replied that 3000 people had been killed and we would not stop until we got the truth. 0500: Head break and 10 minute exercise. Interrogator started futility approach telling the detainee that his hope of being believed was false. 0700: Head break and taken to bed. 1100: Detainee taken to bathroom, walked and offered food – refused. 1130: Interrogator instructed detainee to clean the interrogation booth. Detainee drank water. 1200: 2A780 told detainee he is guilty, and the question is how guilty is he and how much leniency can he get. 1230: Interrogator exploits detainee‘s travel prior to going to Orlando. 1330: Detainee taken to bathroom and exercised. 1350: Detainee offered food – ate one MRE. White noise played in background. 1440: Corpsman checked vitals – O.K. 1450: Interrogator exploits detainee’s work history. 1600: Detainee taken to bathroom and walked. Interrogator reminded detainee that it was important to give every detail when giving information because the questions would have to start all over again if he left anything out. Interrogator used love of family approach and asked detainee how his parents would feel if one of his brothers became a suicide bomber and died. Interrogator further said that if the detainee gave the name of the AQ recruiter in Saudi, we could stop this person before he had a chance to talk to the detainee’s brother. Detainee appeared to think deeply about this topic. 1730: Corpsman checked detainee’s vitals – O.K. 1800: Detainee listened to music for remainder of session. 2130: Head break and 10 minute exercise. 2140: Medical check. OK. 2145: Interrogation team entered the booth, IS1 E and a DOD linguist. 2200: Source drank 1 bottle of water. Interrogator told detainee that by lying, he was making his situation worse. IS-1 told detainee that if the cover story was used in a trial, the prosecutor would tear it apart. 2330: Head Break and 10 minute exercise. Topic changed to global issues to discredit UBL and identify the US point of view. 06 January 2003 0100: Head Break and 10 minute exercise. 0230: Head break and 10 minute exercise. SGT began a discussion of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict. 0400: Head break and 15 minute exercise. SGT began futility approach using circumstantial evidence. 0530: Head break and 30 minute exercise. Detainee drank _ bottle of water. Corpsman checked vitals – O.K. Circumstantial evidence and futility continued. Detainee’s body language seems to indicate he is becoming more worried about this subject. 0700: Detainee taken to sleep cell. SECRET ORCON 1100: Detainee awakened, given shower and fresh clothes, taken to bathroom and exercised. 1130: Detainee taken to interrogation booth and drank water. 1200: Corpsman checked vitals – O.K. 1215: Interrogators instruct detainee to drink water and be respectful. Interrogators began questioning detainee about work history prior to the Orlando trip. 1325: Detainee taken to bathroom and exercised. Detainee drank water. Questioning continued. 1530: Detainee taken to bathroom and exercised. 1600: Corpsman checked vitals – O.K. Questioning continued 1730: Detainee taken to bathroom and exercised. 1830: Detainee ate one MRE and drank a bottle of water. 1930: Detainee taken to bathroom and exercised; drank water. Detainee subject to white noise the remainder of the shift. 2030: Detainee taken to bathroom and exercised. 2130: Head break and 10 minute exercise. 2140: Interrogation team entered booth, IS1 E , SGT R and a DOD linguist. 2200: Source drank 1 cup coffee. 2215: Medical check ok. Interrogators talked to detainee about the Saudi royal family and how they had not taken care of the Saudi people. Interrogators then gave detainee an American Government class where they explained the three branches of government and how it all worked. Interrogators explained how both AQ and the Saudi government blamed the US for all their problems, while the truth was that these organizations were the cause of the problems. Interrogators explained how both the US and Saudi had been under control of the British prior to independence. Interrogators explained how the US is obligated to protect its people in interests abroad. 2300: Head break and 10 minute exercise. 2330: Source drank 1 cup coffee. Interrogators explained to detainee that he was so ignorant of the world that he could not distinguish between truth and lies when someone told him something. Interrogators told detainee that he needed to improved his education about world history and sociology so that he would know when someone lied to him. Interrogators pointed out that AQ had used people like him and tricked them by lying to them. 7 January 2003 0001: Medic gave source Tylenol and 1 cup water. Interrogators asked detainee what his reason for not telling the whole truth was. Interrogators asked if he thought it would be a sin if he did, he replied “no”; asked if he still had allegiance to AQ, he replied “no”, asked if he thought it was the best course of action for him, he replied “yes”. 0200: Nap 0340: Awakened, head break and 10 minute exercise. 0400: Offered food and water, refused. Interrogators resumed discussion about his holding out on telling the truth. Interrogators reiterated that the case against the SECRET ORCON detainee was strong and he had no hope of being found innocent. Detainee was asked what was wanted of him, he replied “If I help you, you will help me”. Detainee appeared to begin to understand his situation and become distressed. 0500: Head break and 10 minute exercise. Interrogators continued futility approach. 0700: Head break and taken to x-ray for rest period. 1045: Detainee awoke on his own and urinated through the wire of his cell. When asked why he did this and did not request to go to the bathroom, detainee replied that he woke up and could not hold it and had to go immediately. 1100: Detainee woken up and exercised/ taken to the bathroom and moved to booth. 1130: 2a0780 entered booth and used an emotional futility p/e down approach on source. 1300: detainee exercised and taken to the bathroom. Drank water 1315: 2a0761 and 2a0780 entered the booth and continued to exploit detainees work history. 1445: detainee exercised and taken to the bathroom 1530: 2a0761 and 2a0780 continued to exploit detainees work history. 1700: detainee exercised and taken to the bathroom. Drank water. 1730: 2a0761 and 2a0780 continued to exploit sources work history and began to exploit sources car selling business associates. 1900: detainee exercised and taken to the bathroom. Drank water 1915: 2a0780 entered booth and went over maps of sources home, Al Kharj, SA. 2000: Detainee ate 1 MRE and drank water. 2100: Detainee exercised and taken to the bathroom. Log reviewed to this point by JTF/SJA DMC 7 Jan 02 2115: Interrogation team entered booth, IS1 E , SGT M and a DOD Linguist. Futility approach was run as it was determined that the detainee was holding on to a hope that he would be found innocent. Interrogators explained that this was a false hope. 2230: Head break and 10 minute exercise. 2245: Medical check by corpsman, OK. Interrogator began questioning detainee about his time in AF. 08 January 2003 0030: Head break and 10 minute exercise. Detainee drank one bottle of water. 0230: Head break and 10 minute exercise. 0300: Source ate 1 MRE and drank 1 bottle of water. Interrogator resumed the futility approach and centered around why the detainee still refuses to tell the truth. 0400: Head break and 10 minute exercise. Interrogator began talking about other topics such as the true definition of martyr, and Islamic beliefs. Detainee asked interrogator to tell him about hunting, and interrogator turned the topic back to futility. 0630: Head break and taken for sleep period. 1100: Detainee moved from cell to booth. He is exercised and taken to the bathroom. SECRET ORCON 1130: 2a0780 enters booth and begins questioning on family history. 1300: Detainee was exercised and taken to the bathroom. Source drank water. 1330: 2a0761 and 2a0780 entered booth and began to exploit sources car business contacts. 1500: Detaineee was exercised and taken to the bathroom 1630: Detainee was exercised and taken to the bathroom. Drank water. 1700: Detainee ate hot food instead of MRE. 1730: 2a0780 exploited detainees family tree and car business associates who traveled to the US 1830: Detainee was exercised and taken to the bathroom. Vitals checked by corpsman and within normal limits. 1900: Detainee given nap. 2200: Detainee woken from nap, exercised, and taken to latrine. 2215: Interrogation began with questioning on the Arabs that where detained with the source. 2330: Detainee taken to latrine and exercised. 09 January 2003 2400: Detainee ate one mre and drank a bottle of water. 2425: Detainee taken to latrine and exercised. 0030: Detainee stated that he was not stupid and answered that he was educated when questioned if he was a doctor, lawyer, or engineer, he said yes to being an engineer. 0230: Detainee taken to the latrine and exercised. 0300: Detainee was seen by the medic everything ok. 0315: Sgt questioned the source on his income and why he did not provide his family any financial help. 0330: Detainee was taken to the latrine and exercised. 0345: SGT ran futility approach life is hopeless. SGT asked the source to visualize his future source said he could then said your right at this point there is no hope, SGT commented that the only thing to do at this time is just confess and help him self, that he is only 30 years old and who knows maybe one day he might even be freed, SGT explained confessed al qaeda members know this and that is why there talking and not to screw him self out of an opportunity to may help his life because there is going to come a time when nothing is going to matter. SGT told the detainee it was time to go to sleep and to think about it, source was very thankful and said that he would consider it since his life right now has no value. 0530: Interrogation ended and detainee was put to bed. 1100: Detainee awakened, taken to bathroom, exercised, and taken to interrogation booth. 1130: A0780 entered the booth and started small talk with detainee. Detainee stated he wanted to fast during the day, and this wish was respected. 1200: A0761 entered the booth and began exploiting shipping companies used by dealerships in SA. Exploitation continued for entire shift. 1300: Detainee taken to bathroom and exercised. SECRET ORCON 1500: Detainee taken to bathroom and exercised. 1700: Detainee taken to bathroom and exercised. 1900: Detainee taken to bathroom and exercised. Detainee drank 16 oz water 2130: Head break and 10 min exercise. 2145: Medical check. Interrogators reviewed topics of the previous few days. Futility was reinforced and interrogators stated there must be only two reasons for the detainee’s continued resistance; either the detainee did not believe the interrogator, or the detainee was protecting terrorists still at large. Interrogator likened the detainee’s story to swiss cheese, with holes surrounding information concerning terrorists. 2330: Head break and 10 min exercise. Interrogators allowed detainee to choose topic for discussion. Detainee asked if the interrogator liked to cook and clean because he (detainee) was a single man and liked to cook. 10 January 2003 0100: 1 cup coffee. 0130: Head break and 10 min exercise. Futility approach was run and detainee said that he knew nothing about terrorists, but would be willing to go back to the Gulf states and infiltrate terrorist organizations for us to help us out. Futility continued to be run for the remainder of the night. 0200: 10 oz water and 1 cup of coffee. 0300: Head break and 10 min exercise. 0430: Head break and 10 min exercise. 0630: Head break and 10 min exercise. 0645: Medical check – O.K. 0650: Refused MRE and water. 0700: Transferred to x-ray for sleep period. 1100: Woken up/ exercised/ taken to the bathroom and transferred to the booth. Detainee offered food – refused. Interrogators questioned detainee about his work history with emphasis on automotive contacts and meeting places for the entire shift. 1300: Exercised and taken to the bathroom. 1330: Medical check, medic stated source needed to drink water. Source was told to drink water, source complied. 1500: Exercised and taken to bathroom. Source drank water. 1630: Source was asked if he needed a bathroom break, no. 1745: Source exercised and taken to bathroom. Source drank water. 1900: Source was given MRE with extra food inside. 1945: Source exercised and taken to bathroom. 2000: Source was allowed to sit in booth and rest. Reviewed to this point by SJA, JTF GTMO, 10 January 2003, 1840 hours. 2100: Head break and 10 minute exercise. SECRET ORCON 2130: Interrogation team entered the booth, IS1 E and a DOD linguist. Interrogator covered previous night’s topic of hopelessness unless the detainee cooperates fully so he can receive leniency. Detainee stated that the session this night was quieter and he liked that, and that he didn’t like to talk about his case because the conversation would become harsh. Interrogator told detainee that conversations became harsh because the detainee lies. Detainee tried to deflect conversation when it turned to Al Qaida. 2245: Head break and 10 minute exercise. Interrogator allowed detainee to choose a topic to talk about. Detainee wanted to talk about dinosaurs. Interrogator gave history of dinosaurs and talked about the meteor that wiped them out, and equated this event with nuclear war. Detainee expresses great ignorance about dinosaurs and space, topics that are taught in U.S. grade schools. Detainee asked interrogator if the sun revolved around the earth. 11 January 2003 0145: Head break and 10 minute exercise. 0200: Source ate 1 MRE and drank 1 bottle of water. 0230: Source received haircut. Detainee did not resist until the beard was cut. Detainee stated he would talk about anything if his beard was left alone. Interrogator asked detainee if he would be honest about himself. Detainee replied “if God wills”. Beard was shaven. Detainee stated he was on strike from interrogation on all teams. A little water was poured over the detainee’s head to reinforce control and wash the hair off. Interrogator continued futility approach. Detainee began to cry when talking. 0400: Head break and 10 minute walk. 0430: Nap 0545: Head break and 10 minute walk. Interrogator told detainee to choose a topic of discussion. Detainee asked to know about the rituals of Christianity. Interrogator told detainee to talk about the rituals of Islam first. 0650: Medical check, OK. 0700: Taken to x-ray for sleep period.
open admission he makes that Cheney and Rumsfeld are actually running the country, and he just doesn't need to be in his office. The only difference between his stonewalling of Lebanon and the way he let New Orleans drown is that he has put away the banjo this summer, at least in public view. He had someone tie a necktie on him and stopped manically clearing brush for long enough to come out with Condi and hold a press conference. He lied, saying that no one wants to see the violence continue. He wants to see the violence continue. Otherwise he would insist on a ceasefire. You see, if you don't have a ceasefire, the violence continues. If you oppose a ceasefire, you are saying you want the violence to continue. He does….
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democracy. The argument, by Adam Cohen, is calm, cogent, considered and full of eminent good se Jalalabad, AF. When confronted about this he