WAR ON TERROR

Tagesanzeiger: CIA wendet «jeden möglichen Druck» an

Von der Befragung des des Al-Qaida-Chefplaners Chalid Scheich Mohammed erhoffen sich die US-Geheimdienste neue Hinweise auf geplante Anschläge und über den Verbleib Osama Bin Ladens. Die Verhöre fanden nun schon den dritten Tag in Folge statt

Ob der Herr wirklich ein "Chefplaner" und "Mastermind Dr. Evil" Al-Kaida "Chefplaner war" ist wenn man andere Quellen als Ari Fleischer ranzieht fraglich.
Das meint Robert FIsk dazu:

Independent: Robert Fisk: A breakthrough in the war on terror? I'll believe it when we see some evidence
In the theatre of the absurd into which America's hunt for al-Qa'ida so often descends, the "arrest" – the quotation marks are all too necessary – of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is nearer the Gilbert and Sullivan end of the repertory.

First, Mr Mohammed was arrested in a joint raid by the CIA and Pakistani agents near Islamabad and spirited out of the country to an "undisclosed location". "The man who masterminded the September 11 attacks" was how the US billed this latest "victory" in the "war against terror" (again, quotation marks are obligatory). Then the Pakistanis announced that he hadn't been taken out of Pakistan at all. Then a Pakistani police official expressed his ignorance of any such arrest.

And then, a Taliban "source" – this means the real Taliban but "source" is supposed to cover the fact that the old Afghan regime still exists – claimed that Mr Mohammed "is still with us and in our protection and we challenge the US to prove their claim". By this stage, it looked like a case of the "whoops" school of journalism; a good story that just might be untrue.

und dann gibts da auch noch einen Artikel der Asia Times vom 30. Oktober 2002 in dem steht das Mr. Mohammed tod ist

Asia Times:

"But now it emerges that an Arab woman and a child were taken to an ISI safe house, where they identified the Shaikh Mohammed's body as their husband and father. The body was kept in a private NGO mortuary for 20 days before being buried, under the surveillance of the FBI, in a graveyard in the central district of Karachi."
"News of the death of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was intentionally suppressed so that officials could play on the power of his name to follow up leads and contacts."