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waterboarding.[1] An hour later, KSM stated that he was "ready to talk."[2] He told the 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.[3] KSM also stated that he tasked Majid Khan with attending Muslim conferences in the United States to "spot and assess potential extremists" who would assist in the gas station plot.[4] In June 2003, KSM admitted that he fabricated the story about Abu Issa al-Britani and Montana, explaining that he was "under 'enhanced measures' when he made these claims and simply told his interrogators what he thought they wanted to hear."[5] In August 2003, KSM reiterated that he had no plans to recruit or use "black American Muslim" converts operationally.[6] In December 2005, he denied ever asking Majid Khan to recruit converts or attend Islamic conferences.[7]
(TS// //NF) On March 24, 2003, KSM underwent his fifteenth and final documented waterboarding session due to his "intransigence" in failing to identify suspected Abu Bakr al-Azdi operations in the United States, and for having "lied about poison and biological warfare programs."[8] KSM was described in the session as being "composed, stoic, and resigned."[9]
(TS// //NF) That evening, the detention site received two reports. The first recounted the reporting of Majid Khan, who was still in the custody of a foreign government, on Uzhair, who ran the New York branch of his father's Karachi-based import-export business, and on Uzhair's father.[10] According to Khan, his meetings with the two were facilitated by Ammar al-Baluchi.[11] The second report described the reporting of Iyman Faris, who was in FBI custody, on a plot to cut the suspension cables on the Brooklyn Bridge and exploration of plans to derail trains and conduct an attack in Washington, D.C.[12] KSM, whom detention site personnel described as "boxed in" by the new reporting,[13] then stated that Uzhair's father, Sayf al-Rahman Paracha, had agreed to smuggle explosives into the United States.[14] As described
- ↑ 10941 (221506Z MAR 03); 10950 (222127Z MAR 03). One cable from DETENTION SITE BLUE hypothesized that KSM was lying in order to force the CIA interrogators to apply the CIA's enhanced interrogation techniques: "[T]he enhanced measures resulting from his lying in [sic] details could be a resistance strategy to keep the interrogation from threatening issues... [KSM's] apparent willingness to provoke and incur the use of enhanced measures may represent a calculated strategy to either: (A) redirect the course of the interrogation; or (B) to attempt to cultivate some doubt that he had knowledge of any current or future operations against the US." See 10950 (222127Z MAR 03).
- ↑ 10950 (222127Z MAR 03)
- ↑ 10942 (221610Z MAR 03), disseminated as ; 10948 (222101Z MAR 03), disseminated as
- ↑ 10942 (221610Z MAR 03), disseminated as
- ↑ 12095 (222049Z JUN 03)
- ↑ 12558 (041938Z AUG 03)
- ↑ 31148 (171919Z DEC 05); 31147 (171919Z DEC 05), disseminated as
- ↑ 10983 (242321Z MAR 03); 10972 (241122Z MAR 03)
- ↑ 10974 (241834Z MAR 03); 10983 (242321Z MAR 03)
- ↑ See the sections of this summary and Volume II on the Identification and Arrests of Uzhair and Saifullah Paracha.
- ↑ 13890 ; 10984 (242351Z MAR 03)
- ↑ WHDC (242226Z MAR 03); 10983 (242321Z MAR 03)
- ↑ 10983 (242321Z MAR 03)
- ↑ 10984 (242351Z MAR 03), disseminated as
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