CT: COMMENTS BY SENIOR AL-QA'IDA OPERATIVE AMMAR AL-BALUCHI ON RECRUITMENT, TRAINING, AND ASSESSMENT OF OPERATIVES

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• Publication Date: July 15, 2003

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SUBJ: CT: COMMENTS BY SENIOR AL-QA'IDA OPERATIVE AMMAR AL-BALUCHI (b)(3)
ON RECRUITMENT, TRAINING, AND ASSESSMENT OF OPERATIVES
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DOI: 2002 - APRIL 2003
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SUMMARY: DURING CUSTODIAL INTERVIEWS CONDUCTED IN JUNE 2003, AMMAR
AL-BALUCHI COMMENTED ON HIS EFFORTS TO RECRUIT AND TRAIN AL-QA'IDA
OPERATIVES. AMMAR CLAIMED THAT HE WAS STILL ATTEMPTING TO BUILD A
riRri F OF RFCRIJITS IN KARACHI PAKISTAN AT THE TIME OF HIS CAPTURE.
TEXT: I. (HEADQUARTERS COMMENT: THE FOLLOWING COMMENTS FROM
SENIOR AL-QA'IDA OPERATIVE ((AMMAR AL-BALUCHI)), AKA ALI (CABD
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AL-AZIZ ALI)), MAY HAVE BEEN MEANT TO INFLUENCE AS WELL AS INFORM.
BALUCHI MAY ALSO HAVE BEEN INTENTIONALLY WITHHOLDING INFORMATION AND
EMPLOYING COUNTER-INTERROGATION TECHNIQUES.)
2. DURING A SERIES OF CUSTODIAL INTERVIEWS IN JUNE 2003,
AMMAR DISCUSSED THE QUALITIES HE SOUGHT IN OPERATIVES AND THE WAYS IN
WHICH HE ASSESSED THE POTENTIAL OF THOSE -M TRAINED.
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