9/11 attacks’ mastermind sues interrogators

Nahla Abdelmonem

American judiciary authorities are expected to question two of the psychologists who proposed the interrogation techniques for some of those accused of involvement in the 9/11 attacks in New York and Washington, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

Mohammed accused the two psychologists, James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen, of causing him suffering by proposing brutal interrogation techniques for him and other people accused of involvement in the attacks.

He said his interrogators made him believe that he was drowning, among other things. He accused them also of water boarding him.

Both psychologists will be questioned for days for also putting Mohammed and other accused people in a small room, which deprived them of sleep.

He accused his interrogators of torturing him for three years in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

The new details will most likely slow down Mohammed’s case, which has been dragging on and on for years now.

Mohammed and other suspects were arrested in 2002 and 2003 in Pakistan. So far, the court has not managed to issue a verdict in the case.

In May 2018, American judiciary authorities investigated torture allegations by people accused in the same case.

Political sociology professor, Saeed Sadek, said Mohammed’s case keeps running on and on because the American administration wants this.

This, he adds, shows that there is foul play in the whole case and in the 9/11 attacks as a whole.

“Al-Qaeda is so weak that it cannot carry out attacks that sophisticated,” Sadek told The Reference.

Political science professor, Nouhan al-Sheikh, agreed. She said suspicions are high that al-Qaeda had not staged these attacks.

“The US is a country armed to the tooth, which means that it could have easily prevented these attacks,” al-Sheikh said.