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Bush-Era Interrogations Provided Key Details on Bin Laden's Location

By Catherine Herridge

Published May 02, 2011 | FoxNews.com


Years of intelligence gathering, including details gleaned from 
controversial interrogations of Al Qaeda members during the Bush 
administration, ultimately led the Navy SEALs who killed Usama bin Laden 
to his compound in Pakistan.

The initial threads of intelligence began surfacing in 2003 and came in 
the form of information about a trusted bin Laden courier, a senior U.S. 
official told Fox News on condition of anonymity. Bin Laden had cut off 
all traditional lines of communication with his network by this time 
because the Al Qaeda leader knew the U.S. intelligence community was 
monitoring him. It was said that he also didn’t even trust his most 
loyal men to know his whereabouts and instead communicated only through 
couriers.

But it was four years later, in 2007, that terror suspects at the 
Guantanamo Bay military prison started giving up information about the 
key courier.

Around this time, the use of enhanced interrogation tactics, including 
waterboarding, a form of simulated drowning, were being denounced as 
torture by critics of the Bush administration. President George W. Bush 
and Vice President Dick Cheney came under intense pressure for 
supporting rough treatment of prisoners. Critics claimed that any 
information given under duress simply couldn’t be trusted.

It is an argument that Bush and Cheney strongly rejected then, and now.

“I would assume that the enhanced interrogation program that we put in 
place produced some of the results that led to bin Laden's ultimate 
capture,” Cheney told Fox News on Monday, a hint of vindication in his 
voice.

Information was given up by prisoners, including 9/11 architect Khalid 
Sheikh Mohammed. U.S. officials described the courier as a talented 
protege and trusted associate of both Mohammed and Al Qaeda’s No. 3 
leader at the time, Abu Faraj al Libi. Both men were held at Guantanamo Bay.

U.S. officials were told the courier’s name was known only to bin 
Laden’s innermost circle.

By 2009, the U.S. intelligence community had a rough idea of where the 
courier operated: a region north of Islamabad, Pakistan. It was another 
year before this compound was identified in August 2010 as a likely home 
for a senior Al Qaeda member.

The compound was eight times the size of other homes in the affluent 
neighborhood, and the impressive 18-foot-high walls with barbed wire 
drew scrutiny from intelligence analysts.

By early this year, information from multiple intelligence sources, 
including the now-shuttered harsh interrogation program, as well as CIA 
operatives and Special Operations Forces on the ground in Afghanistan 
and Pakistan, were building a clearer case that the compound might house 
bin Laden. Officials found out that there were three families living 
there. In addition, a significantly older man, who was shown deference 
by the group, was not required to work on the compound.

Critics of the Bush-era interrogation programs have suggested that the 
harsh interrogations were not essential to tracking bin Laden and that 
the information could have been obtained by more humane means. But for 
Cheney and other Bush administration alumni, Sunday’s raid stands as 
proof their system worked.

Read more: 
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/05/02/bush-era-interrogations-provided-key-details-bin-ladens-location/#ixzz1LGfM5I9K

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