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President Bush Reveals the Existence of Secret Prisons
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The super-secret CIA operation was described by the President as tough but necessary, responsible for stopping al Qaeda plots around the world.
One of the most significant targets, the tallest building in Los Angeles, known as the Library Tower.
A former CIA official says it was to be hit by a hijacked aircraft.
Robert Grenier, a former CIA counter-terrorism chief and now Managing Director of Kroll, Inc., "This was a serious serious plot. This was certainly well beyond the level of aspiration."
But intelligence sources say the CIA's ability to capture and break the 14 al Qaeda leaders stopped the plot against the Library Tower and more than a dozen others, including a hijacking at London's Heathrow airport, an attack on the U.S. consulate in Karachi Pakistan and a proposed anthrax attack.
"This program has been and remains one of the most vital tools in our war against the terrorists," President Bush said today.
The President described how the CIA produced a cascading series of arrests. Starting with the first of the captured al Qaeda leaders, Abu Zubaydah. Zubaydah had refused to cooperate until the CIA used what the President called an alternate set of interrogation procedures.
"Zubaydah was questioned using these procedures, and soon he began to provide information on key al Qaeda operatives," the President said.
That led the CIA to one of the plotters of the 9/ll attacks, Ramzi Bin al-Shibh, taken into custody in Pakistan.
He too was subjected to the CIA's procedures and quickly broke.
Giving up the location of his al Qaeda boss, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, known as KSM, the mastermind of the 9/ll attacks.
"Once in our custody, KSM was questioned by the CIA using these procedures. And he soon provided information that helped us stop another planned attack on the United States," President Bush said.
The President would not reveal the CIA's interrogation procedures, but CIA officers have told ABC News they involve six escalating steps, ending in what's known as water boarding, in which prisoners are made to feel they are drowning.
Human rights groups call it torture, but the President disagreed.
"The United States does not torture," he said. "It's against our laws, and it's against our values. I have not authorized it, and I will not authorize it."
Hours before the President spoke today, the Pentagon released new rules of interrogation which outlawed water boarding.
September 6, 2006 in CIA Secret Prisons | Permalink | User Comments (11)
Mr. Ross, I am continually amazed how you can continue to report the news from ABC. This little move by Junior's Junta to get Arlen Specter to pass an atrocity of a law is certainly well above the kind of partizanship displayed by that shocker of a dreku-drama, providing cover for the Junta's involvement and blaming everything on President Clinton.
I would have thought your kind of reporting would have been disallowed.
Good for you; keep reporting the truth. Steve Jobs may still come down and clean house there!
Posted by: Leo Belldaere | Sep 6, 2006 10:23:23 PM
Congratulations, Brian, for uncovering another one of Osama Bin Bush's lies.
Posted by: teth3000 | Sep 7, 2006 12:44:18 AM
How about all the prison camps that Halliburton/KBR is building all over the U.S.? Why?
Posted by: RevSuzanne | Sep 7, 2006 12:45:14 AM
H E L L O, who thinks its inhuman?, b.s! Did you think our enemys were going to reveal top information and death plots over tea and crumpets. Do I agree with the war, no, but hey guys were in it. No matter whos fault. Now the only objective is to win.
Posted by: Tammie Swancer | Sep 7, 2006 9:46:59 AM
It's under darkness,and can't change it.
Posted by: 余祥 | Sep 7, 2006 10:32:40 AM
This is offtrack, but since ABC news is the only news agency not covering the ABC Mockumentary that is being offered up for free (no commercials), there isn't anywhere else on ABC news to comment.
All of the other news sites are covering the fact that ABC is planning to fill the air waves with no commercial interruption, a fictionalized 9/11 account. It appears to be politically motivated, as it has been pointed out many times that it is full of lies!
From another web page....
James Bamford, an author and journalist who has written about security issues, appeared on MSNBC to discuss "The Path to 9/11." Bamford revealed that an FBI agent who worked as a consultant to the film quit halfway through production of the mini-series because he believed the writers and producers were "making things up."
MSNBC, CNN, CBS all have prominent articles about this blatantly political lie that ABC is planning on broadcasting.
Why is ABC news not covering this? Who is financing this? Well Brian, as an investigative journalist, why are you not covering this?
Posted by: James | Sep 7, 2006 2:21:24 PM
THANK YOU GOD FOR PRESIDENT BUSH AND HIS WONDERFUL LEADERSHIP. PLEASE SAVE US FROM PEOPLE LIKE HILARY CLINTON ET AL AND THE ANTI-WAR PROPONENTS WHO WOULD HAVE US JUST FLAT SURRENDER AND WALK AROUND WAVING WHITE FLAGS.
Posted by: JoAnna | Sep 7, 2006 2:42:43 PM
Thank goodness for CIA prisons we need to have somewhere to torture the deserving. Torture away. In fact are you guys hiring?
Posted by: Scott | Sep 7, 2006 6:08:50 PM
Protecting our country should be our number one goal. End of story, period.
Posted by: Sarah | Sep 10, 2006 3:03:39 PM
Can someone explain to me why Bush is still in office? The problem that I am having is that Bush dances around the pertinent questions involving this so-called "war/non-war" that our country is in. Why is it that America can tap the phones of innocent people but can't find one man, who keeps revealing himself on tapes. But yet you found Saddam in a cave? That makes me wonder about the intelligence running our country. Bush is incompetent, and this is just another way of him diverting our attention to another discussion that means jack squat right now.
Posted by: Kim | Sep 11, 2006 9:07:10 AM
Can someone explain to me why Bush is still in office? The problem that I am having is that Bush dances around the pertinent questions involving this so-called "war/non-war" that our country is in. Why is it that America can tap the phones of innocent people but can't find one man, who keeps revealing himself on tapes. But yet you found Saddam in a cave? That makes me wonder about the intelligence running our country. Bush is incompetent, and this is just another way of him diverting our attention to another discussion that means jack squat right now.
Posted by: Kim | Sep 11, 2006 10:07:10 AM
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