- KUWAIT CITY -- Two young sons of Khalid
Shaikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the September 11 attacks,
are being held by the CIA to force their father to talk, interrogators
said yesterday.
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- Yousef al-Khalid, 9, and his brother, Abed al-Khalid,
7, were taken into custody in Pakistan in September when intelligence officers
raided an apartment in Karachi where their father had been hiding.
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- He fled just hours before the raid, but his two
young sons, along with another senior al Qaeda member, were found cowering
behind a clothes closet in the apartment.
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- The boys have been held by the Pakistani authorities,
but this weekend they were flown to America, where they will be questioned
about their father.
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- CIA interrogators confirmed last night that the
boys were staying at a secret address where they were being encouraged
to talk about their father's activities.
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- "We are handling them with kid gloves. After
all, they are only little children," said one official, "but
we need to know as much about their father's recent activities as possible.
We have child psychologists on hand at all times, and they are given the
best of care."
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- Their father, Mohammed, 37, is being interrogated
at the Bagram U.S. military base in Afghanistan. He is being held in solitary
confinement and subjected to "stress and duress" interrogations.
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- He has been told that his sons are being held and
is being encouraged to divulge future attacks against the West and talk
about the location of Osama bin Laden, officials said.
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- "He has said very little so far," one
CIA official said yesterday. "He sits in a trancelike state and recites
verses from the Koran. But while he may claim to be a devout Muslim, we
know he is fond of the Western-style fast life.
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- "His sons are important to him. The promise
of their release and their return to Pakistan may be the psychological
lever we need to break him."
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- The Kuwaiti-born Mohammed named his older son after
Ramzi Yousef, his nephew, who was convicted of masterminding the 1993 attack
on New York's World Trade Center. After the attack, Yousef fled to the
Philippines with his uncle.
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- When bomb-making chemicals set fire to their Manila
apartment, Yousef fled to Pakistan, where he was captured in an Islamabad
hotel room in 1995.
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- Mohammed was in the next room and, audaciously,
gave an eyewitness account of the arrest to a reporter. By the time the
Pakistani authorities found out his true identity, he had fled the country.
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- He was eventually arrested March 1 in a house in
Rawalpindi, two miles from the home of Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf.
Among the items found in the house was a photograph of a smiling Mohammed
with his arms around his two sons.
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- Known as "the Engineer," he is suspected
of being the mastermind of the Oct. 12, 2002, Bali bombings in Indonesia
that killed more than 180 people, and the man who slashed the throat of
Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in Pakistan in January 2002.
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- Little is known of his sons' mother, who is thought
to be Pakistani. "We have no evidence that suggests she has anything
to do with al Qaeda," a Pakistani intelligence source said yesterday.
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- "All we know is that she is the sister of an
al Qaeda member that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed met at a Pakistan college,
the University of Dawa al Jihad, in the late 1980s."
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- The college, considered a premier Islamic military
academy, is said to have been a breeding ground for terrorists where bomb
making was among the subjects on its unofficial curriculum. (end article)
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- Comment
- From DC Dave
- 3-9-3
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- This article pretty well speaks for itself, needing little
commentary from me, but one can't help but wonder how the news of this
latest super-power barbarism will be received in the rest of the world.
I find it especially indicting, coming as it does just the day after the
revelation by UN investigators that key U.S./U.K. evidence that Iraq had
been seeking nuclear materials is a forgery. See http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=2346364 .
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- Wonder if Dubya's minions will be using some of his old
fraternity's tactics on these "terrorist" tykes (see
- http://thebird.org/host/dcdave/article4/011228.html )
or if his buddy Ariel will lend him some real specialists in child "interrogation."
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- DC Dave
- Author, "Who Killed James Forrestal?"
- "America's Dreyfus Affair, The Case of the Death
of Vincent Foster"
- "Upton Sinclair and Timothy McVeigh"
- "Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression"
- <http://www.thebird.org/host/dcdave>http://www.thebird.org/host/dcdave
- News group: alt.thebird
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- CIA Using Khalid's Two Little Sons To Break Him
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- Boys Flown To US In Effort To Make Him Talk
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- © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com
- 3-9-3
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- The two young sons of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the suspected
mastermind of the September 11 attacks, were flown to the U.S. over the
weekend and are being used by interrogators to force their father to talk,
according to a report in the London Telegraph.
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- Yousef al-Khalid, 9, and his brother, Abed al-Khalid,
7, were picked up by intelligence officers, along with a senior al-Qaida
member, last September. The boys were found cowering behind a piece of
furniture in an apartment in Karachi where their father had been hiding.
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- All three were held by Pakistani authorities until the
boys were turned over to the U.S.
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- "We are handling them with kid gloves. After all,
they are only little children," an official told the Telegraph, ''but
we need to know as much about their father's recent activities as possible.
We have child psychologists on hand at all times and they are given the
best of care.''
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- Mohammed, 37, is being subjected to ''stress and duress''-style
interrogation techniques at the Bagram U.S. military base in Afghanistan,
and has been told that his sons are being held by the U.S.
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- He's being encouraged to divulge future attacks against
the West and talk about the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden, but has reportedly
said very little while being held in solitary confinement. He's said to
be sitting in a trance-like state while reciting verses from the Koran.
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- "His sons are important to him. The promise of their
release and their return to Pakistan may be the psychological lever we
need to break him," said a CIA official.
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