Dan
Can I be honest with you? I am bad **** news. I'm not your friend. I'm not gonna help you. I'm gonna break you. Any questions?
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How about a V10 Lamborghini. How's that for friendship?
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Dan
You know, I think I've seen too many guys naked. It's got to be over a **** hundred at this point. I need to go and do something normal for a while.
Dan
It's cool, that you're strong and I respect it, I do. But in the end, everybody breaks, bro. It's biology.
Dan
You don't mind if my female colleague checks out your junk?
Dan
Where's the last time you saw bin Laden?
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Right now, this is about you coming to terms with your situation. It's you and me, bro. I want you to understand that I know you, that I've been studying you for a very long time. I could have had you killed in Karachi. But I let you live so you can I could talk.
Ammar
You beat me when my hands are tied. I won't talk to you.
Dan
Life isn't always fair, my friend. Did you really think that when we got you, I'd be a nice **** guy?
Ammar
You're a mid-level guy. You're a garbage man in a corporation. Why should I respect you?
Dan
And you're a money man. A paperboy! A disgrace to humanity! You and your uncle murdered three thousand innocent people. I have your name on a five-thousand dollar transfer via Western Union to a 9/11 hijacker; and you got popped with 150 kilograms of high explosives in your house! And then you DARE question me?!
Maya
[to Ammar, referencing the 2004 Khboar massacre]
After we kept you awake for 96 hours, you gave us names of some of your brothers and saved the lives of a lot of innocent people.
Dan
Which is the smart thing to do, you're starting to think for yourself. Eat up! You earned it!
Dan
So you flew via Amman to Kabul to hang out with your uncle? Mukhtar.
Amar
How did you know that?
Dan
I told you man, I know you. Alright, you got me - flight manifests. It must've been pretty **** up for you guys after 9/11. What did you do after the invasion and before you went back to Pesh?
Ammar
After 9/11 we had to choose: fight, to protect our turf - or run.
Dan
You chose to fight.
Ammar
I wanted to kill Americans. We tried to get into Tora Bora, but the bombing was too high. We couldn't cross.
Maya
Sorry, who is the "we" in that sentence?
Ammar
Me and some guys who were hanging around at that time.
Dan
[casually, but annoyed]
I can go eat with some other dude and hang you back up to the ceiling.
Ammar
Hamza Rabia, Khabab al-Masri, and Abu Ahmed.
Maya
Who's Abu Ahmed? I've heard of the other guys.
Ammar
He was a computer guy with us at the time. After Tora Bora, I went back to Pesh - as you know - and he went North, I think, to Kunar.
Maya
What's his family name?
Ammar
Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti
Maya
Abu Ahmed means 'father of Ahmed," it's a kunya. Ammar, I know the difference between a war name and an Arabic name.
Dan
She got you there, dude.
Ammar
I swear to you both: I don't know his family name. I would have never asked him something like that. It's not how my uncle worked. My uncle told me he worked for bin Laden. I did see him, once, about a year ago, in Karachi. He read us all a letter from the Sheikh.
Maya
A letter?
Dan
What did it say?
Ammar
It said: "Continue the jihad. The work will go on for a hundred years."
Maya
Twenty detainees recognize that photo of Abu Ahmed. They say he's part of the inner circle of guys who were hanging out in Afghanistan pre-9/11. A lot of them say that after 9/11, he went to work for KSM. When KSM got captured, he went to work for Abu Faraj, primarily as a courier from Faraj to bin Laden.
Joseph Bradley
Well, that's good. You still don't...
Maya
[cutting him off]
Yeah, we don't know if Abu is on the outside of the network — part of a series of cutouts and dead drops — or if he has a direct connection to bin Laden. Does bin Laden invite him into the living room and hand him a letter directly? Or is Abu just the last guy in a long line of couriers, so that's why everybody knows him?
Joseph Bradley
That's not all you don't know. You don't have his true name, and you don't have a clue where he is.
Maya
We know that he's important. The fact that everybody's heard of Abu Ahmed but nobody will tell me where he is suggests that.
Joseph Bradley
Maybe. Detainees could withhold his location for any number of reasons. Perhaps they don't know; perhaps this Abu is just a cover story and he's really a **** unicorn. The withholding doesn't reveal what you want it to, does it?
Maya
No.
Joseph Bradley
And if you did find him, you don't know that he'd be with bin Laden.
Dan
We don't know what we don't know.
Joseph Bradley
What the **** is that supposed to mean?
Dan
It's a tautology.
CIA Director
[In a CIA Conference room with CIA Director, his deputies (including George, Dan, the Wolf, Steve) and Maya]
I'm about to go look the President in the eye, and what I'd like to know, no **** bullshit, is where everyone stands on this thing. Now, very simply, is he there, or is he not **** there?
Deputy Director
We all come at this through the filter of our own past experiences. I remember "Iraq WMD" very clearly, I fronted that, and I can tell you the case for that was much stronger than this case.
CIA Director
A ****in' yes or a no.
Deputy Director
We don't deal in certainty, we deal in probability. I'd say there's a sixty percent probability he's there.
The Wolf
I concur. Sixty percent.
George
I'm at eighty percent. Their OPSEC is what convinces me.
CIA Director
You guys ever agree on anything?
Dan
Well, I agree with sixty, we're basing this mostly on detainee reporting and I spent a bunch of time in those rooms. Who knows? I'd say it's a soft sixty, sir. I'm virtually certain there's some high value target there, I'm just not sure it's bin Laden.
CIA Director
This is a cluster-****, isn't it?
Jeremy
I'd like to know what Maya thinks...
Deputy Director
We're all incorporating her assessment into ours...
Maya
[interrupting]
A hundred percent he's there. Okay, fine, ninety-five percent because I know how certainty freaks you guys out, but it's a hundred.
