"20th Hijacker" Claims that Torture Made Him Lie (time.com)

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cont'd: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1169322,00.html

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Exclusive: "20th Hijacker" Claims That Torture Made Him Lie
Mohammad al-Qahtani, held in Guantanamo and touted by the U.S. as a major informant, is taking it all back, his lawyer says. PLUS: for the first time, TIME.com publishes a secret, 84-page record of his interrogation
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Posted Friday, Mar. 03, 2006
Of the roughly 500 detainees held at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, none is more notorious than Mohammad al-Qahtani, the so-called "20th hijacker." Only weeks before 9/11, he tried to enter the U.S. illegally in Orlando, Fla., while the plot's leader, Mohammad Atta, waited to pick him up in the airport parking lot. As the Pentagon has said, "Had al-Qahtani succeeded in entering the U.S., it is believed he would have been on United Airlines Flight 93, the only hijacked aircraft that had four hijackers instead of five ."

A secret document gives an inside look at how detainees at Guantanamo are treated

TIME EXCLUSIVE Read the Complete Interrogation Log: From the TIME Archive

Jun 20, 2005

Inside the Interrogation of Detainee 063
To get the "20th hijacker" to talk, the U.S. used a wide range of tactics.


Last June, TIME published excerpts from a highly classified, 84-page log minutely detailing al-Qahtani's interrogation at Guantanamo. Now, as an increasing number of detainees mount legal challenges to their incarceration, TIME is making the record of al-Qahtani's treatment available to the public in its entirety (except for some names which have been redacted) for the first time.

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1. I thought Moussaoui was 20th hijacker..?nt

[katty]

2. yea, there have been 'so many' 20th hijacker's...hmmmmm