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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: gao seng who wrote (263396)	6/12/2002 5:46:07 PM
From: gao seng	Respond to of 769670

Zubaydah interrogation paying dividends Bin Laden aide revealed 'dirty bomb' threat Philip Shenon, James Risen, New York Times Wednesday, June 12, 2002 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Washington -- After nearly 100 sessions with CIA and FBI interrogators at a heavily guarded, undisclosed location, the captured terrorist Abu Zubaydah has provided information that American officials say is central to the Bush administration's efforts to pre-empt a new wave of attacks against the United States. The officials say that Zubaydah, a former lieutenant to Osama bin Laden, offered clues that led to the arrest of an American citizen who was accused this week of plotting to detonate a crude nuclear device somewhere in the United States. They said he had also provided vital information -- perhaps inadvertently -- about the identity of one of the central planners of the Sept. 11 attacks, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, a Kuwaiti-born extremist and leading al Qaeda operative. Zubaydah is not considered a cooperating witness. But law enforcement and intelligence officials say that he is talking with American interrogators, and that the information he has provided is then matched and cross-checked against other evidence collected from Afghanistan and Pakistan as well as intelligence gathered from other terrorist suspects and captured al Qaeda members. In some cases, officials said, the information provided by Zubaydah has proved to be false, possibly disinformation intended to confuse American investigators or create panic in the United States. Bush administration officials said that Zubaydah, who was captured in Pakistan in March and has since been moved to another, more secure location overseas, is not being tortured by his interrogators from the CIA and the FBI. But they said that he was not allowed access to other al Qaeda prisoners. He has also not been permitted any contact with the outside world, except when it suits the needs of the interrogators in their psychological gamesmanship with Zubaydah. Officials said that the American interrogation team -- made up of CIA and FBI specialists in extracting information without torture from difficult or reluctant subjects -- tries to manipulate Zubaydah by doing such things as feeding him disinformation about the status of other al Qaeda leaders or the progress of the American investigation of Sept. 11. A Saudi-born Palestinian in his early 30s who was the chief recruiter for Osama bin Laden's terrorist camps, Zubaydah has remained defiant since his capture outside a safehouse in northern Pakistan in March and has taunted his interrogators from the CIA and FBI with statements of his continued loyalty to al Qaeda, the officials said. They said that much of what Zubaydah has offered in interrogations is believed to be disinformation intended to lead American investigators astray. sfgate.com