wanted him to discuss Al Qaeda’s future plans, not the attacks that had horrified America a year and a half earlier, Dr. James E. Mitchell, the psychologist, said.
So when the prisoner, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, mentioned Sept. 11, they would slam him, naked, into a wall.
That month, interrogators would waterboard Mr. Mohammed 183 times at a secret overseas C.I.A.
prison in the mistaken belief, Dr. Mitchell said, that a nuclear attack in the United States was imminent.
But Mr. Mohammed still was not saying what his captors wanted to hear.
Persons:
Al Qaeda’s, James E, Mitchell, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, Mr, Mohammed, ” Dr
Locations:
America, United States