Mastermind of 9/11 Lied Under Harsh Interrogation
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed told US officials he lied after being abused when facing “harsh interrogation” techniques.
“I make up stories,” Mohammed said, describing in broken English an interrogation probably administered by the CIA concerning the whereabouts of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. “Where is he? I don’t know. Then, he torture me,” Mohammed said of his interrogator. “Then I said, ‘Yes, he is in this area.’ “
Documents released Monday as a result of an ACLU suit also reveal Mohammed fingered people he did not know to be al Qaeda members to avoid further abuse. Many of the documenents had been previously released but were heavily redacted. The Bush administraton clearly did not want certain parts of the transcripts to become public.
A newly declassified portion of Mohammed’s transcript showed that the CIA apparently told him that he had no constitutional rights.
“This is what I understand he told me: You are not American and you are not on American soil,” Mohammed said in the military hearing. “So you cannot ask about the Constitution.”
Other parts of the released transcripts show that al Qaeda facilitator Abu Zubayda complained about lack of medical treatment from a shootout, including loss of a testicle. Zubayda also discusses fears he would die while being waterboarded.
While I in no way find this guy to be a credible source, I do not doubt that he gave false information under harsh interigation technics. I would.
June 16th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
Poor guy, lets give him some stimulus money and send him home to start an army.
Southern Girl Lib Reply:
June 16th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
What grade are you in?
RDM Reply:
June 16th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
HHHHHAH,
Is there any $timulu$ money left or has someone already stolen most of it?
Oh my, the poor thing. He needs our help to make it day-to-day. I’m so distressed. Can’t we at least come up with money for a shave and a haircut.
This is all just too sad.
RDM Reply:
June 16th, 2009 at 2:51 pm
Who wouldn’t trust a kind loving face like that. You know he has the intellectual roots of a caveman. Poor thing, he’s just a desert simpleton who lives out by the camel pen.
Boo hoo hoo..so sad.
EricG Reply:
June 16th, 2009 at 3:34 pm
What the hell is wrong with you!?!
Why don’t you skip that part and just move ahead to the part where you declare the white race superior to others and start the purging of the ‘imperfects’ from your white world.
You and all these racist-joking conservatives should be called out for your bigotry and racism you commit everyday.
If you weren’t so consumed with hatred for your fellows you might see it yourself.
Conservatism in 2009 is mostly about racism & bigotry.
RDM Reply:
June 16th, 2009 at 4:36 pm
Eric
I think Khalid Shaikh Mohammed would like you.
Two intellectuals with so much in common, that are so much smarter than poor old riff-raff out there in fly over country.
He needs your help and you have the compassion and caring to give.
You’re the Man.
June 16th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
And we should believe him now because……….? BTW, he had NO constitutional rights then or now.
June 16th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
And once again you cons don’t get it. We are a nation of laws and we do not torture. If you like torture so much, go join the Taliban.
RDM Reply:
June 16th, 2009 at 2:39 pm
SGL
If you hated Al-Qaeda the same way you hate conservatives, we’d have already won the war on terror by now.
Southern Girl Lib Reply:
June 16th, 2009 at 2:53 pm
I don’t hate conservatives. I do however dislike people with extremist views that are racist and homophobic.
I am not your enemy. And you are not mine. People who want to harm us do not care if we are black, white, brown, gay, straight, democrat or republicans.
We just have different approaches on how to solve our domestic and foreign policy issues.
And if you are ever in Birmingham, I will buy you a beer. :))
June 16th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
I agree, SGL. We are a nation of laws and I don’t like torture. We disagree on the definition of torture, I guess.
June 16th, 2009 at 2:40 pm
Harsh interrogation makes for bad intelligence.
Somehow the fact that I don’t have a fancy (elitist) degree in psychology nobody listens to me but I’m been saying this for … several years now.
These war-hawks and torture-commies we hear from know nothing of the Glory of United States of America. These Neo-Con Anti-American Pro-Torture Republicans have nothing worth respecting in all that they say in this regard.
Torture doesn’t work and all we get is cases like this cropping back up over and over again.
Blame Bush for destroying the Constitution. The dangerous policy taken as the course of action by the previous administration is illegal and sometimes I feel I am the only American in this entire country who loves his country enough to see justice done to our resident torturers and torture supporters.
Kregg Reply:
June 17th, 2009 at 12:00 am
The Eric said: Harsh interrogation makes for bad intelligence.
K: of course it does, thats why they keep using it…
June 16th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
Barack Hussein Obama told US officials he lied after being questioned when facing “harsh debate” techniques.
“I make up stories,” Obama said, describing in broken Arabic, a debate probably administered by the CIA concerning the whereabouts of Campaign Promise leader New Taxes. “Where are they? I don’t know. Then, he ask me again,”Obama said of his debator. “Then I said, ‘Yes, they are in this area. They are coming.’”
Look, Obama himself lied under intense questioning. But, on the balance, I think we get more and better information as a result.
TDro319 Reply:
June 16th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
Pino:
I think you’ve finally lost it.
pino Reply:
June 16th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
LOL. It was a stretch. The point is, lot’s of people lie. Obama lies. And there is no indication that this guy isn’t lying about lying.
He was the Mastermind behind 9/11; why would you accept what he says at face value now?
RDM Reply:
June 16th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
Pino…’no indication that this guy isn’t lying about lying’.
I believe you’re right. Remember when they were called the “Pinocchio Administration”. What about Pelosi-O? They lie about the size of government, then they lie about lying.
Yeah, I believe you’re right. But they’re sho nuff smart!
June 16th, 2009 at 3:43 pm
You and all these racist-joking conservatives should be called out for your bigotry and racism you commit everyday.
I see. Maybe we should see if A-Rod is willing to “take him for a walk during the 7th inning stretch”?
See, it’s “funny” for you when it’s a con being targetted. But it’s an outrage, AN OUTRAGE, when it’s the con doin’ the jokin’.
How sa-weet is the bitter in your world?
June 16th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
Alan said: Many of the documenents had been previously released but were heavily redacted.
K: Alan, what exactly is a ‘documenent’?
June 16th, 2009 at 3:58 pm
Alan reports: Other parts of the released transcripts show that al Qaeda facilitator Abu Zubayda complained about lack of medical treatment from a shootout, including loss of a testicle.
K: But for another inch or two higher…
June 16th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
The only people who endorse torture are people who know nothing about interrogation.
June 16th, 2009 at 5:38 pm
This guy is playing the drive-by media like a fiddle. Let’s not forget what this guy did. The CIA was correct he has no constitutional rights or human rights for that matter for what he did. Harsh interrogations please hook up the car batteries and get some bamboo shoots or put him in a room with the family members of the people who lost their love ones on 9/11
Kregg Reply:
June 17th, 2009 at 12:40 am
Goliath said: This guy is playing the drive-by media like a fiddle.
K: Seems you’re amongst a minority on this board that understand this… ;-)
DJ Dalek Reply:
June 17th, 2009 at 1:03 am
Once again, conservatives are demonstrating why 9/11 happened in the first place: the people who claim to be the most patriotic americans are the ones who sanction murder, torture, abandonment of human rights, suspension of constitutional rights, pointless wars, and then have the nerve to joke about it.
goliath43 Reply:
June 17th, 2009 at 1:13 am
DJ
you’re kidding right.. your taking up for this parasite that murdered over 3000 people.
June 17th, 2009 at 12:25 am
The progressives don’t hide their zeal and lust for the terrorist. They condemn America every chance they get and defend terrorist thugs like Khalid and take their word as gospel when they claim victimhood and whine about being interrogated. Of course this is after they murdered over 3000 on September 11, 2001. These are the people who chop off heads of Americans. These are the people who murder American soldiers and drag their bodies through the streets then hang them up for all to see. These are the people who murder innocent women and children in shopping malls and resteraunts. These are the people who brainwash their followers into strapping bombs on their person and blowing themselves up with some false notion that they will go to heaven if they murder innocent women and children.
These are the people that the progressives/liberals believe when they accuse America of being mean when interrogating them.
OldLefty Reply:
June 17th, 2009 at 8:56 am
Daddio,
The progressives feel that no one has helped and coddled the terrorists MORE than the Bush administration.
Daddio Reply:
June 17th, 2009 at 9:06 am
That is the problem Lefty, “The progressives feel…” The progressives need to start thinking.
OldLefty Reply:
June 17th, 2009 at 9:12 am
Daddio,
I think it is the opposite.
The right resists facts and only does what feels good at the time.
They did not question or think out Iraq….It felt good to hit SOMEONE, nevermind if it was the wrong one to hit.
Meanwhile bin Ladin is laughing his butt off and thanking Bush for making more important than he could ever do himself.
They both fed off each other.
Daddio Reply:
June 17th, 2009 at 9:17 am
Whatever Lefty. Sometimes I think you are becoming so partisan that there is no turning back for you.
Kregg Reply:
June 17th, 2009 at 10:55 am
Lefty said: They did not question or think out Iraq….It felt good to hit SOMEONE, nevermind if it was the wrong one to hit.
K: What makes you say this, Lefty?
placefield Reply:
June 17th, 2009 at 10:58 am
You don’t actualy think Iraq had anything to do with 9/11 do you?
Kregg Reply:
June 17th, 2009 at 11:24 am
Place said: You don’t actualy think Iraq had anything to do with 9/11 do you?
K: I don’t believe they had a direct connection but what makes you think that we attacked them because of a direct link? At the beginning of WW2 we were attacked by Japan but moved against Germany first. We began a GLOBAL war against terrorism and Iraq was a sponsor of global terrorism.
placefield Reply:
June 17th, 2009 at 11:29 am
How was Iraq a sponsor of global terrorism?
Kregg Reply:
June 17th, 2009 at 11:31 am
Place said: You don’t actualy think Iraq had anything to do with 9/11 do you?
K: Place, I’m not pointing my finger at you any more than at any other person who buys this ‘you don’t think Iraq had anything to do…” line of reasoning but I am surprised that so many apparently think that our only purpose was to capture bin Ladin when GW was VERY clear in that we were going to war against ANY and ALL state sponsors of terrorism against America. Iraq was clearly a state sponsor of terrorism training, financing, and planning, had attempted to assassinate GB. Why NOT go after them as a n example of what happens when you foment terror against the US?
Kregg Reply:
June 17th, 2009 at 11:33 am
Place said: How was Iraq a sponsor of global terrorism?
Funding terrorists, training terrorists, allowing known terrorists to live openly among them. Attempting assassination of GB the first…
June 17th, 2009 at 8:51 am