Approved for Release 2018 10 03 006665560 4 TO ALEC I NatSecAct FROM SUBJECT EYES ONLY - DETAILS 2002 INTERROGATION SESSION WITH AL- RAHIM AL-NASHIRI BODY NatSecAct 1 MB NatSecAct NatSecAct 1 NatSeCAct NatSecAct NatSecAct NOV 02 pm i WSW 02 STAFF NatSecAct NatSecAct 11270 TO IMMEDIATE ADEC INFO IMMEDIATE DIRECTOR FOR NatSeCAct mm I NatSecAct SUBJECT EYES ONLY - DETAILS OF DNOVEMEER 2002 INTERROGATION SESSION WITH AL-RAHIM REF NONE 1 NatSecAct TEXT COMBINE COMPLETE 1 ACTION REQUIRED NatSecAct Approved for Release 2018 10 03 006665560 Approved for Release 2018 10 03 006665560 NatSecAct 2 SUMMARY ON DNOVEMBER DAY FIVE OF BASE AGGRESSIVE PHASE INTERROGATIONS OF SENIOR OPERATIVE AKA MULLAH SUBJECT SPOKE MORE READILY THAN IN PREVIOUS SESSIONS ABOUT HIS ASSOCIATES AND PROVIDED ACTIONABLE LEAD INFORMATION AS DESCRIBED BELOW THROUGHOUT THE SESSION INTERROGATORS REEMPHASIZED A THEME WITH SUBJECT THAT EVERY STATEMENT WAS BEING CHECKED NatSecAct AGAINST OTHER INFORMATION FROM HIS CAPTURED COMRADES AND FROM OTHER SOURCES AND THAT CLAIMS OF IGNORANCE ABOUT ONGOING PLANNING WERE NOT BELIEVED IN FOR THIS REASON STRESSED THAT ONLY HOPE OF AVOIDING A STEADY WORSENING OF HIS SITUATION WAS FOR HIM TO PROVIDING ACTIONABLE INFORMATION THAT COULD HELP THE USG DISRUPT PLOTS AND LOCATE MEMBERS IF INFORMATION PROVED FALSE OR HIS COOPERATION FEIGNED WERE READY WILLING AND WOULD HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO INCREASE THEIR PRESSURES IN WAYS THAT WOULD BE EXTREMELY UNPLEASANT FOR SUBJECT A NatSecAct NatSeOAct 4 TEAM ENTERED CELL AT 1013 LOCAL AFTER SUBJECT WAS REMOVED FROM THE LARGE BOX BACKED AGAINST THE WALLING PANEL AND GIVEN A DRINK OF WATER LEANED FORWARD AND TOLD SUBJECT AND INTENSELY THAT HE AND INTERROGATORS WERE TO GO BACK TO ISSUES DISCUSSED BUT THAT NatSeCAct INTERROGATORS FIRST HAD SOME IMPORTANT QUESTIONS SUBJECT LISTENED MUTELY WHILE HIM THAT BEFORE ANSWERING SUBJECT SHOULD CONSIDER THAT HE DID NOT WANT TO BE UNDER IF ANOTHER OPERATION AGAINST AMERICANS TOOK PLACE SUBJECT WAS TOLD TO ANSWER QUESTIONS COMPLETELY QUICKLY AND TRUTHFULLY AND WHEN ASKED YOU DO SUBJECT NODDED NatSecAct Approved for Release 2018 10 03 006665560 Approved for Release 2018 10 03 C06665560 NatSecAct NatSecAct 7- NatSecAct NatSecAct Approved fof Release 2018 10 03 C06665560 Approved for Release 2018 10 03 006665560 NatSecAct 9 NatSecAct 10 NatSecAct 11 NatSecAct 1 NatSeCAct Approved for Release 2018 10 03 006665560 Approved for Release 2018 10 03 C06665560 NatSecAct NatSecAct 14- 1 NatSecAct SUBJECT WAS PROVIDED A WATER BOTTLE HOODED AND RETURNED TO HIS LARGE BOX AT 1109 HRS LOCAL NatSecAct Approved for Release 2018 10 03 C06665560 Approved for Release 2018 10 03 C06665560 15 FOLLOWING LUNCH AND SEVERAL STRATEGY MEETINGS BETWEEN BASE PERSONNEL INTERROGATORS RE-ENTERED CELL AT 1555 LOCAL AND BACKED HIM AGAINST THE WALLING WALL WHERE HE SLOUCHED AND STARED AT HIS HIS FINGERS IN FACE AND SUBJECT STRAIGHTENED UP AND MADE EYE CONTACT SIMONED THAT WHAT NatSecAct INTERROGATORS HAD PREDICTED WAS TRUE THAT HAD NOT BELIEVED DENIALS AND HAD TOLD INTERROGATORS THEYVNEEDED TO INCREASE THEIR PRESSURE NatSeCAct NatSecAct 16 NatSecAct Approved for Release 2018 10 03 C06665560 Approved for Release 2018 10 03 C06665560 NatSecAct 1'7 NatSecAct 18 NatSeCAct 19 WW NatSecAct 20 NatSecAct Approved for Release 2018 10 03 006665560 Approved for Release 2018 10 03 C06665560 NatSecAct SUBJECT WAS TOLD THAT HE WOULD BE PUT INTO THE LARGER BOX AGAIN BECAUSE HE APPEARED TO HAVE BEEN COOPERATIVE AND LEFT WITH THE BRIDGE THAT WHEN INTERROGATORS SAW HIM AGAIN THEY WOULD ASK HIM ABOUT HIS ACTIVITIES IN THE MONTHS BETWEEN PLANNING FOR THE HORMUZ AND PORT RASHID OPERATIONS SUBJECT WAS PROVIDED ENSURE AND WATER AND A CLEAN WASTE BUCKET AND LOCKED BACK IN HIS LARGE BOX AT 1718 NatSecAct NatSecAct END OF MESSAGE Approved for Release 2018 10 03 C06665560 This document is from the holdings of The National Security Archive Suite 701 Gelman Library The George Washington University 2130 H Street NW Washington D C 20037 Phone 202 994-7000 Fax 202 994-7005 nsarchiv@gwu edu