By JOBY WARRICK | The Washington Post | Published: April 9, 2021 In confidential interrogation reports, Iraqi detainee M060108-01 is depicted as a model prisoner, cooperative with his American captors, and unusually chatty. At times he seemed to go out of his way to be helpful, especially when offered a chance to inform on rivals within his organization, then known as the Islamic State of Iraq. Over several days of questioning in 2008, the detainee provided precise directions on how to find the secret headquarters for the insurgent group s media wing, down to the color of the front door and the times of days when the office would be occupied. When asked about the group s No. 2 leader a Moroccan-born Swede named Abu Qaswarah he drew maps of the man s compound and gave up the name of Qaswarah s personal courier.
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Two Afghan National Army Soldiers talk with a local Afghan during Operation Saray Has July 19 near Forward Operating Base Naray, Afghanistan. The ANA worked with Headquarters and Headquarters Troop, 1st Squadron, 91st Cavalry Regiment (Airborne), during Operation Saray Has.
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Current leader of Daesh was an eager informant for the US military
Members of special forces with the US-backed coalition against Daesh in Syria on February 14, 2019 [AFP/Getty Images] April 8, 2021 at 3:38 pm
The current leader of the Daesh terrorist group was an eager informant of the US military in Iraq, new records released this week have shown.
US officials opened a rare window into the terrorist chief s early days as a militant with the release this week of dozens of formerly classified interrogation reports from his months in an American detention camp in Iraq. Details of Al-Qurashi, whose real name is Amir Muhammad Sa id Abdal-Rahman Al-Mawla, were known to the US Defence Department as he was in American custody beginning in January 2008. But the newly released records show that he was as invaluable to the US as much as he was a willing informant.
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