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UNCLASSIFIED TOP SECRET////NOFORN waterboarding. An hour later, KSM stated that he was "ready to talk." He told the CIA interrogators that he had sent Abu Issa al-Britani to Montana to recruit African-American Muslim converts, a mission he said had been prompted by discussions with a London-based shaykh whose bodyguards had families in Montana. KSM also stated that he tasked Majid Khan with attending Muslim conferences in the United States to "spot and assess potential extremists" who would assist in the gas station plot. In June 2003, KSM admitted that he fabricated the story about Abu Issa al-Britani and Montana, explaining that he was "under 'enhanced measures' when he made these claims and simply told his interrogators what he thought they wanted to hear." In August 2003, KSM reiterated that he had no plans to recruit or use "black American Muslim" converts operationally. In December 2005, he denied ever asking Majid Khan to recruit converts or attend Islamic conferences.

( TS////NF ) On March 24, 2003, KSM underwent his fifteenth and final documented waterboarding session due to his "intransigence" in failing to identify suspected Abu Bakr al-Azdi operations in the United States, and for having "lied about poison and biological warfare programs." KSM was described in the session as being "composed, stoic, and resigned."

( TS////NF ) That evening, the detention site received two reports. The first recounted the reporting of Majid Khan, who was still in the custody of a foreign government, on Uzhair, who ran the New York branch of his father's Karachi-based import-export business, and on Uzhair's father. According to Khan, his meetings with the two were facilitated by Ammar al-Baluchi. The second report described the reporting of Iyman Faris, who was in FBI custody, on a plot to cut the suspension cables on the Brooklyn Bridge and exploration of plans to derail trains and conduct an attack in Washington, D.C. KSM, whom detention site personnel described as "boxed in" by the new reporting, then stated that Uzhair's father, Sayf al-Rahman Paracha, had agreed to smuggle explosives into the United States. As described TOP SECRET////NOFORN Page 92 of 499

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