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In reply to the discussion: Glenn Greenwald reveals Torture Queen's identity [View all]lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)69. But she kept gas stations in the greater Montana area safe from terra
http://missoulian.com/news/local/waterboarded-terrorist-fabricated-montana-recruiting-effort/article_438335dd-e6b2-56b0-b84c-8ee00370979e.html
Who can blame the CIA for pulling out all the stops to investigate this solid lead? In Montana, you can't swing a dead cat without hitting "African-American Muslim converts", and who can imagine a better terror target than the Bozeman 7-11?
After a contentious interrogation session lasting for hours that included waterboarding, Mohammed flatly denied efforts to recruit African-American Muslim converts. Later in the day, as he faced a second waterboarding session, he allegedly relented and changed his story.
Mohammed told interrogators that maybe he had told Kahn to make contact with members of the black American Muslim convert community. After that confession, Mohammed was returned to a standing sleep deprivation position without any additional waterboarding.
An hour later, the report says, Mohammad was ready to talk.
He told CIA interrogators that he had sent Abu Issa al-Britani to Montana to recruit African-American Muslim converts, a mission he said had been prompted by discussions with a London-based shaykh whose bodyguards had families in Montana, the report says.
Mohammed also stated that hed told Kahn to attend Muslim conferences in the U.S. to spot and assess potential extremists who could assist in the gas-station plot.
But in June 2003, Mohammed admitted that hed fabricated the story about al-Britani and Montana. He said he was under enhanced measures when he made the claims and had told interrogators what he thought they wanted to hear.
Mohammed told interrogators that maybe he had told Kahn to make contact with members of the black American Muslim convert community. After that confession, Mohammed was returned to a standing sleep deprivation position without any additional waterboarding.
An hour later, the report says, Mohammad was ready to talk.
He told CIA interrogators that he had sent Abu Issa al-Britani to Montana to recruit African-American Muslim converts, a mission he said had been prompted by discussions with a London-based shaykh whose bodyguards had families in Montana, the report says.
Mohammed also stated that hed told Kahn to attend Muslim conferences in the U.S. to spot and assess potential extremists who could assist in the gas-station plot.
But in June 2003, Mohammed admitted that hed fabricated the story about al-Britani and Montana. He said he was under enhanced measures when he made the claims and had told interrogators what he thought they wanted to hear.
Who can blame the CIA for pulling out all the stops to investigate this solid lead? In Montana, you can't swing a dead cat without hitting "African-American Muslim converts", and who can imagine a better terror target than the Bozeman 7-11?
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I think it's the wider known scope that is new, not that she was a key torturer.
Electric Monk
Dec 2014
#9
Quick poll of DUers reading this thread: Did you know her name before tonight? nt
Electric Monk
Dec 2014
#18
I don't think it's harmful at all...and I understand the clickbait approach. I'm just kinda
msanthrope
Dec 2014
#26
How shall I phrase this? If I were holding myself out as a person knowledgeable about
msanthrope
Dec 2014
#29
There was loads of stuff on spying in the US all over the internet including here on DU after the
sabrina 1
Dec 2014
#108
What's interesting is WHAT stuns people. I am stunned too, by the fact that nothing has
sabrina 1
Dec 2014
#67
And I'm so ignorant (stunningly so) that I didn't notice all the cool kids are hanging out at
deurbano
Dec 2014
#93
Which is why we are forever indebted to people like Glenn Greenwald who they
sabrina 1
Dec 2014
#109
I'm among the ignorant too, not privy to these books and sources where EVERYONE
sabrina 1
Dec 2014
#111
Ricardo Sanchez hung Janet Karpinksi out to dry for Abu Ghraib, when Sanchez should
KingCharlemagne
Dec 2014
#22
Don't worry, as you can see, when they are in a bind like this, remember Snowden's revelations,
sabrina 1
Dec 2014
#41
Then how is Greenwald "revealing" anything? Cryptome...which I am sure you are familiar
msanthrope
Dec 2014
#7
And nothing was done about her? If they knew this, why has nothing been done?
sabrina 1
Dec 2014
#66
Manny, that's what the Snowden-Greenwald haters said about the NSA leaks, too.
grasswire
Dec 2014
#8
Well...she deserves jail. I'm not sure what you think GG has done that deserves jail? nt
msanthrope
Dec 2014
#17
We already knew who this was. We already knew what she'd done (at least, anyone awake did.)
msanthrope
Dec 2014
#12
I wish Leni Riefenstahl had lived long enough to see herself compared to Seth Rogen. nt
msanthrope
Dec 2014
#10
The Zapruder film was not a film about the Kennedys it was a home movie taken of the Dallas
Bluenorthwest
Dec 2014
#73
Back in the 70s, Christopher Lasch wrote a very influential book called
KingCharlemagne
Dec 2014
#31
Those of us that hate whistle-blowers and others that speak truth to power are putting our fingers
rhett o rick
Dec 2014
#48