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Breaking The Will
Michael Isikoff 12/11/2008 12:00:00 AM
The Bush administration approved the use of "waterboarding" on Al Qaeda detainees after receiving reports from government psychologists that it was "100 percent effective" in breaking the will of U.S. military personnel subjected to the technique during training, according to documents released today by a Senate Committee.
INTERNATIONAL
Testimony
Steve Bloomfield 11/19/2008 12:00:00 AM
Salim Awadh Salim sat on a wooden chair, his hands cuffed tightly behind his back, his feet tied together with rope. All night he had been trying, and failing, to sleep. The lights, bright and white, had been kept on. All told, he had spent 18 days in jails in Kenya, 10 days in detention in Somalia and now four days and four nights in solitary confinement in Ethiopia.
Q&A
Going After Bin Laden
Jessica Ramirez 10/30/2008 12:00:00 AM
Two months after the September 11 attacks took place, a group of U.S. commandos, with the help of British commandos, the CIA and an Afghan warlord, trekked into the Tora Bora mountains in Afghanistan in search of the most wanted man in the world. Their mission was clear—capture or kill Osama bin Laden. If he died, then they were to leave his body with the Afghans but bring back proof that he had been slain. But the Battle of Tora Bora—as the showdown between allied forces and bin Laden would come to be known—did not end with bin Laden's death, but with his escape. Seven years later, the senior ranking American military officer and lead Delta Force member of that mission has published "Kill Bin Laden," his account of what occurred. NEWSWEEK's Jessica Ramirez spoke to Dalton Fury—a pseudonym the author uses—about the man that got away. Excerpts:
LAST WORD
Putting Al Qaeda on the Couch
7/19/2008 12:00:00 AM
Marc Sageman has charted an unlikely path. The first scholar-in-residence at the New York City Police Department is a child of Holocaust survivors who became a psychiatrist, a sociologist and a CIA case officer. Since the publication of "Leaderless Jihad" earlier this year, Sageman has been at the center of a debate about the inner workings of Al Qaeda. Is the organization dispersed and disorganized, as Sageman suggests, or is it resurgent, as CIA analyses have reported? Sageman spoke with NEWSWEEK's Christopher Dickey in New York. Excerpts:
Spies, Lies and the White House
Michael Isikoff 6/11/2008 12:00:00 AM
A previously undisclosed CIA report written in the summer of 2002 questioned the "credibility" and "truthfulness" of an Al Qaeda detainee who became a key source for the Bush administration's claims about links between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden. The statements of the detainee--a captured terrorist operative named Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi--were the principal basis for President Bush's contention in a major pre-Iraq War speech that Saddam's regime had "trained Al Qaeda members in bombmaking and poisons and deadly gases." The speech was delivered in Cincinnati on Oct. 7, 2002, just as Congress was taking up the White House-backed resolution authorizing the president to invade Iraq.
'Borderline Torture'
Michael Isikoff 5/20/2008 12:00:00 AM
The CIA last year refused to permit Justice Department investigators to question a key Al Qaeda detainee about what happened to him in the agency's custody, including reports that he was subjected to "waterboarding" and other abusive interrogation methods.