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Article: How a Detainee Became An Asset; Sept. 11 Plotter Cooperated After Waterboarding
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- August 29, 2009
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After enduring the CIA's harshest interrogation methods and
spending more than a year in the agency's secret prisons, Khalid
Sheik Mohammed stood before U.S. intelligence officers in a
makeshift lecture hall, leading what they called "terrorist
tutorials."
In 2005 and 2006, the bearded, pudgy man who calls himself the
mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks discussed a wide variety
of subjects, including Greek philosophy and al-Qaeda dogma. In one
instance, he scolded a listener for poor note-taking and his
inability to recall details of an earlier lecture.
Speaking in English, Mohammed "seemed to relish the opportunity,
sometimes for hours on end, to discuss the inner workings of al- ...