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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums3 Month CIA Ghost Chase: "Non-existent black Muslim jihadist ghosts, in the forests of Montana"
KSM Had the CIA Believing in Black Muslim Convert Jihadist Arsonists in Montana for 3 MonthsPublished December 15, 2014 | By emptywheel
.....Khalid Sheikh Mohammed had the CIA believing he was going to send Dhiren al-Barot (an Indian Muslim Brit whom KSM did have case out actual US terrorist targets in 1999) to Montana to recruit African American converts to Muslim to start forest fires.
http://www.intelligence.senate.gov/study2014/sscistudy1.pdf
http://www.intelligence.senate.gov/study2014/sscistudy1.pdf
On March 17, 2003, KSM stated that, prior to the September 11, 2001, attacks, he tasked Issa[al-Hindi, whose real name is Dhiren Barot] to travel to the United States to collect information on economic targets. On March 21, 2003, KSM was waterboarded for failing to confirm interrogators suspicions that KSM sought to recruit individuals from among the African American Muslim community. KSM then stated that he had talked with Issa about contacting African American Muslim groups prior to September 11, 2001 The next day KSM was waterboarded for failing to provide more information on the recruitment of African American Muslims. One hour after the waterboarding session, KSM stated that he tasked Issa to make contact withblack U.S. citizen converts to Islam in Montana, and that he instructed Issa to use his ties to Shaykh Abu Hamza al-Masri, a U.K.-based Imam, to facilitate his recruitment efforts.KSM later stated that Issas mission in the United States was to surveil forests to potentially ignite forest fires.1502
It took the ALEC Station team over 3 months to conclude that KSMs plan to send an Indian Muslim to Montana to recruit virtually non-existent African American Muslim converts to start forest fires was a fabrication, in part because they first spent a week after he recanted this claim believing it was an attempt to trick them again.
On June 22, 2003, CIA interrogators reported that (KSM) nervously explained to debriefer that he was under enhanced measures when he made these claims about terrorist recruitment in Montana, and simply told his interrogators what he thought they wanted to hear.1505 A CIA Headquarters response cable stated that the CIAs ALEC Station believed KSMs fabrication claims were another resistance/manipulation ploy and characterized KSMs contention that he felt forced to make admissions under enhanced interrogation techniques as convenient excuses. As a result, ALECStation urged CIA officers at tiie detention site to get KSM to reveal who is the key contact person in Montana?1506 [citing a June 26, 2003 ALEC Station cable] By June 30, 2005, ALEC Station had concluded that KSMs reporting about African American Muslims in Montana wasan outright fabrication.
A year after CIA decided KSM was not really going to have a non-existent cell of black Muslims start forest fires, the FBI nevertheless warned a bunch of Rocky Mountain states, including Montana, to be on guard for the threat.
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https://www.emptywheel.net/2014/12/15/ksm-had-the-cia-believing-in-black-muslim-jihadist-converts-in-montana-for-3-months/
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3 Month CIA Ghost Chase: "Non-existent black Muslim jihadist ghosts, in the forests of Montana" (Original Post)
kpete
Dec 2014
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(12,869 posts)1. More demonetization and they fell for it.
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