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Details of the cycle of interrogations of Abu Zubaydah on August 9, 2002 (August 2002)

[REDACTED] AUG 02 [REDACTED]

CITE: [REDACTED]

SUBJECT: EYES ONLY - DETAILS OF 9 AUGUST 2002 CYCLE OF INTERROGATIONS OF ABU ZUBAYDAH

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1. ACTION REQUIRED: NONE, FYI.

2. DAY SIX OF THE AGGRESSIVE INTERROGATION PHASE COMMENCED AT 0946 HOURS LOCAL TIME, 9 AUGUST 2002. [REDACTED] ((ABU ZUBAYDAH)) (SUBJECT) WAS PUT IN THE SMALL CONFINEMENT BOX AT 1657 HOURS ON 8 AUGUST, AND THEN TWO HOURS LATER, WAS REMOVED BY THE SECURITY TEAM AND PUT IN THE LARGE BOX AT 1858 HRS. THEN AT 2317 HOURS, THE END OF THE 24 HOUR PERIOD (WHERE SUBJECT IS NOT TO EXCEED MORE THAN 18 HOURS WITHIN A 24 HOUR PERIOD IN THE LARGE BOX). SUBJECT WAS HOODED, TAKEN OUT OF THE LARGE BOX AND MADE TO SIT AGAINST THE WALL FOR A COUPLE OF HOURS. DURING THIS PERIOD, SUBJECT VOMITED THREE TIMES WITHIN A 15 MINUTE PERIOD, THE FIRST WHILE WEARING THE HOOD. THE SECURITY TEAM REMOVED THE HOOD FOR THE REMAINING TIME PERIOD, AND AT 0200 HOURS--WHEN THE NEW 24 HOUR PERIOD BEGAN--MOVED SUBJECT BACK TO THE LARGE BOX, WHERE HE REMAINED UNTIL THE INTERROGATION TEAM ENTERED THE CELL ON 9 AUGUST AT 0945 HOURS TO BEGIN THE DAY'S FURST INTERROGATION SESSION.

3. AT 0946 HOURS, THE SECURITY TEAM, ACCOMPANIED BY A MEDICAL [REDACTED] OFFICER AND [REDACTED] BOTH DRESSED UP AS SECURITY TEAM MEMBERS, OPENED THE LARGE BOX, HOODED SUBJECT, AND LED HIM TO THE WALLING WALL. [REDACTED] THE INTERROGATORS TOLD SUBJECT TO GET ON THE BOARD WHICH SUBJECT DID WITH NO RESISTANCE. [REDACTED] THE TEAM OBSERVED THAT AT THIS POINT SUBJECT APPEARED DISTRESSED AND HIS BREATHING WAS RAPID AND IRREGULAR. [REDACTED]

4. [REDACTED] THE INTERROGATORS APPLIED THE FIRST WATER TREATMENT (0953 HOURS). NOTE: WHILE SUBJECT'S FACE WAS COVERED WITH THE CLOTH, THE MEDICAL OFFICER, WHO WAS DRESSED AS A SECURITY TEAM MEMBER, UNALERTINGLY EXAMINED THE SUBJECT'S LEG WOUND IN ORDER TO CHECK ITS CONDITION. SEE [REDACTED] FOR 9 AUGUST FOR MEDICAL UPDATE. [REDACTED] AT ONE POINT, SUBJECT WAS ELEVATED TO CLEAR HIS AIR PASSAGE. [REDACTED] THE INTERROGATORS ASKED WHAT SUBJECT WANTED TO DO NEXT--"THE SMALL BOX? THE FLOOR WITH YOUR HANDS HELD UP HIGH? STANDING AGAINST THE WALL? OR STAY WHERE YOU ARE?" [REDACTED] SUBJECT CONTINUED TO SHOW SIGNS OF HIGH DISTRESS, WITH RAPID BREATHING AND TWITCHES IN HIS LOWER LEGS. [REDACTED]

5. AT 0958 HOURS THE STRAPS WERE REMOVED; SUBJECT'S BREATHING CONTINUED TO BE RAPID. SUBJECT WAS THEN INSTRUCTED TO GET OFF THE BOARD UNDER HIS OWN POWER, WHICH HE DID. THE INTERROGATORS POINTED TO THE SMALL BOX AND SAID, "YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO." THE SUBJECT SAT ON THE FLOOR AND SCOOTED HIMSELF INTO THE SMALL BOX AT 1000 HOURS WITHOUT PROTEST OR ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS.

6. BETWEEN 1000 - 1707 HOURS, SUBJECT WAS EXPOSED TO A VARIETY OF [REDACTED] APPROVED PRESSURES, AS FOLLOWS: AT 1130 HRS, TAKEN OUT OF SMALL BOX, HOODED, AND MADE TO STAND AGAINST A CELL WALL; AT 1230 HRS, BACK INTO THE LARGE BOX (UNHOODED)--NOTE THAT MEDICAL OFFICER DRESSED AS SECURITY TEAM MEMBER AT THIS TIME GAVE SUBJECT ANTIBIOTIC TO APPLY TO THE LEG WOUND. SUBJECT WAS ALSO GIVEN A TOPICAL ANTIBIOTIC TO APPLY TO THE LEG WOUND (THIS SAME SELF-APPLIED MEDICAL PROCEDURE WAS AGAIN REPEATED AT 1857 HOURS). AT 1345 HRS, SUBJECT WAS TAKEN OUT OF LARGE BOX. HOODED, AND MADE TO STAND AGAINST THE WALL UNTIL 1430 HRS, BACK TO LARGE BOX; AT 1601 HRS, INTO SMALL BOX; 1612 HRS, SUBJECT WAS HEARD CRYING/WHIMPERING/CHANTING; 1635 WENT FROM SMALL BOX TO FLOOR, SITTING DOWN HOODED; AND 1655 HRS, RETURNED TO THE LARGE BOX, UNHOODED.

7. THE AFTERNOON SESSION BEGAN AT 1707 HOURS. THE SECURITY TEAM OPENED THE LARGE BOX, HOODED SUBJECT, AND LED HIM TO WALLING WALL. THE INTERROGATORS REMOVED THE HOOD AND SIGNALED FOR SECURITY TEAM TO DEPART THE CELL. USING THE ROLLED TOWEL/NECK SUPPORT, INTERROGATORS ASKED SUBJECT WHAT THEY HAD ASKED HIM FOR THE LAST SESSION; SUBJECT MUMBLED A REPLY AND WAS WALLED. [REDACTED] USING THE ROLLED TOWEL, THE INTERROGATOR LED SUBJECT TOWARD ANOTHER WALL TO ALLOW THE SECURITY TEAM TO ROLL IN THE WATER BOARD. SUBJECT WAS TOLD, "YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO." SUBJECT THEN PROCEEDED TO WALK AND SIT DOWN ON THE BOARD. THE NECK COLLAR WAS ATTACHED [REDACTED] THEN TOLD TO LIE DOWN. INTERROGATORS NOTED AGAIN THAT SUBJECT COULD STOP THIS BY TELLING THEM WHAT THEY WANTED TO KNOW. SUBJECT WHIMPERED THAT HE HAD NOTHING [REDACTED] FOR EFFECT, THE INTERROGATORS THREW SOME WATER ON SUBJECT AT THE END OF THE WATER BOARD WHERE SUBJECTS'S HEAD LAY. INTERROGATOR NOTED THAT ONE DID NOT DECLARE WAR ON THE U.S. WITHOUT KNOWING ANYTHING ABOUT IT. SUBJECT BEGAN CRYING, AND AT 1716 HOURS, THE FIRST TREATMENT OF THIS SESSION WAS APPLIED [REDACTED] SUBJECT (AND BOARD) WAS ELEVATED AS NECESSARY IN ORDER TO CLEAR HIS AIR PASSAGE. SUBJECT CONTINUED TO WHIMPER. THE INTERROGATORS TOLD SUBJECT THAT THEY HAD BEEN PATIENT WHILE TALKING TO HIM FOR SEVERAL DAYS, THAT IT WAS TIME TO SAY THE TRUTH, THAT WE WANTED TO KNOW WHAT HE KNEW WHEN HE WAS CAPTURED, AND WHAT HE KNEW THAT MUKHTAR WAS UP TO. SUBJECT RESPONDED THAT IF HE KNEW THE TARGET, HE WOULD HAVE TOLD THEM. SUBJECT RAISED HIS OWN PLAN OF USING REMOTE CONTROL DEVICES. THE INTERROGATORS STOPPED SUBJECT'S DENIALS AND APPLIED THE WATER TREATMENT, AND TOLD SUBJECT THAT THEY WOULD NOT LET SUBJECT DROWN, AND THAT UNLESS HE PROVIDED THE INFORMATION, HE HAD BETTER GET USED TO IT. SUBJECT CONTINUED CRYING AND WHIMPERING.

8. AT THIS POINT, AS PREVIOUSLY PLANNED DURING THE EARLIER STRATEGY MEETING, THE INTERROGATORS TRANSITIONED SUBJECT FROM THE TOPIC OF CURRENT THREATS TO QUESTIONS RE SUBJECT'S INVOLVEMENT IN PAST OPERATIONS. [REDACTED] SUBJECT MENTIONED AHMAD RESSAM (MILLENNIUM BOMBER), GIVING BIN LADIN $50,000 FOR OPERATIONS AGAINST ISRAEL WHICH BIN LADIN USED FOR 9/11, AND GIVING MONEY TO BROTHERS IN LONDON WHO DID NOT USE THE MONEY (NFI--WILL EXPLORE AT A LATER DATE). SUBJECT APPEARED TO GET OFF TOPIC, THOUGH SOME MEMBERS BELIEVED SUBJECT WAS CONFUSED BY THE SWITCH IN QUESTIONING BETWEEN NEW THREAT INFO AND PREVIOUS THREAT INFO SUBJECT PROVIDED. WE SHOULD NOTE THAT FOR THE LAST SIX DAYS SUBJECT HAS BEEN TOLD THAT WE DID NOT CARE ABOUT PAST OPERATIONS, ONLY NEW CURRENT/FUTURE THREATS. THE INTERROGATORS PLAN TO REVISIT THE LONDON TOPIC DURING THE FIRST SESSION ON 10 AUGUST.

9. [REDACTED] AT 1743 HRS, SUBJECT WAS UNSTRAPPED FROM THE BOARD AND THE NECK COLLAR WAS REMOVED. POINTING TO THE SMALL BOX, THE INTERROGATOR SAID, "YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO." SUBJECT GOT OFF THE TABLE, SAT ON THE FLOOR, AND SCOOTED INTO THE SMALL BOX AT 1743 HOURS. PRIOR TO CLOSING THE DOOR, THE INTERROGATORS SAID THAT WHEN THEY CAME BACK, THEY WOULD PICK UP WHERE THEY LEFT OFF. [REDACTED] 

10. IN A POST SESSION DEBRIEFING WITH [REDACTED] WHO HAD DRESSED UP AS A MEMBER OF THE SECURITY TEAM AND HAD BEEN IN THE CELL DURING THE ABOVE INTERROGATION SESSION, THE TEAM DISCUSSED WHAT WERE THE NEXT APPROPRIATE STEPS TO TAKE REGARDING THE APPLICATION OF [REDACTED] PRESSURES. THIS SUBJECT IS BEING ADDRESSED IN SEPARATE CABLE TRAFFIC.

11. NOTE: THE SECURITY TEAM OPENED THE SMALL BOX AT 1857 HOURS, AND POINTED TO THE LARGE BOX. SUBJECT ENTERED THE BOX AND WAS GIVEN BETADINE AND A TOPICAL ANTI-BACTERIAL OINTMENT TO APPLY TO HIS WOULD. AT 1904 HOURS, THE SECURITY TEAM CLOSED SUBJECT WITHIN LARGE BOX. THE PLAN IS TAKE SUBJECT OUT OF THE LARGE BOX TO SIT ON THE FLOOR HOODED CIRCA 0100 HOURS 10 AUGUST 02 LOCAL IN ORDER NOT TO EXCEED 18 TOTAL HOURS IN THE BOX WITHIN A 24 HOUR PERIOD. SUBJECT WILL THEN RETURN TO THE LARGE BOX CIRCA 0300 HOURS, WHEN THE NEXT 24 HOUR PERIOD WILL START.

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