Official: Squeezing Intel Out of Benghazi Suspect Won’t Be Easy
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Authors: Ben Brumfield and Evan Perez
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(CNN) — Interrogators don’t expect to have it easy with Ahmed Abu Khatallah, a Washington law enforcement official told CNN.
The suspected mastermind of the 2012 attack on the U.S. Mission in Benghazi, Libya, has had time to rehearse his story, the official said.
But an expert who has interrogated al Qaeda operatives thinks there’s a good chance Abu Khatallah will crack, if interrogators punch the right buttons. Others have done so before him.
“Some were motivated by the uncertainty of the situations. Others were motivated, as they called it, (by) fatigue with the jihad life,” former Navy intelligence agent Robert McFadden said…
High seas ‘a good place’
Interrogators from the FBI-led High Value Detainee Interrogation Group are on board the ship. Taking Abu Khatallah by sea, rather than by air, is giving them “maximum time to question him,” U.S. officials said.
The high seas are a good place for it to happen, McFadden said. “It really is quite conducive to good interviews…”
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