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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.

*Corrected since original posting.*

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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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���,/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.

*This column has been edited since the original posting.*

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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)

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��,$The Ceremony of Innocence is Drowned$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.

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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-14-2006R
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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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 lat5b��(.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.

First up, from USA Today: Center for war-related brain injuries faces budget cut. Excerpts:

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:

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.

Next up, from the New York Times: Panel Suggests Using Inmates in Drug Trials. Excerpts:

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:

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.

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.

That is the very quintessence of Bushism. That is now the actual, actionable platform of the modern Republican Party. This is the reality they want to create behind the words "the United States of America."
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���,/Case Dismissed: Bush v. Gore Goes Into Room 101-case-dismissed-bush-v-gore-goes-into-room-101)Here’s an excellent analysis on how to transform Bush v. Gore from the most shameful Supreme Court decision since the Dred Scott case into a powerful weapon for a broader, deeper, more healthy democracy. The argument, by Adam Cohen, is calm, cogent, considered and full of eminent good se Jalalabad, AF. When confronted about this he
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23 December 2002
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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):
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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 …
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.