Zero Dark Thirty Page #5

After 9/11, we had to choose.

Fight to protect our turf or run.

And you chose to fight, yeah?

We wanted to kill Americans.

Yeah.

We tried to get into Tora Bora, but the

bombing was too high. We couldn't cross.

I'm sorry, who's the

"we" in that sentence?

Me, and some other guys who

were hanging around at that time.

You know, I can always go

and eat with some other dude,

hang you back up to the ceiling.

Hamza Rabia.

Khabab al-Masri.

And Abu Ahmed.

Who's Abu Ahmed? I've

heard of the other guys.

He was a computer guy

with us at the time.

After Tora Bora, I went

back to Pesh, as you know.

Mm-hm.

And they went north, I think, to Kunar.

What's his family name?

Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti.

Abu Ahmed means "father

of Ahmed", it's a kunya.

Ammar, I know the difference between

a war name and an Arabic name.

She got you there, dude.

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.

I know.

My uncle told me he worked for bin Laden

Um, I did see him, once,

about a year ago, in Karachi.

He read us all a letter

from the "Sheik".

A letter?

What'd it say?

Cigarette?

It said, "Continue the jihad. "

"The work will go on

for a hundred years. "

You and I are gonna talk about some of

the guys at the training camps, yeah?

Okay.

Some of these brothers

have done some bad things.

What I wanna do is, I wanna separate

them from the people like you.

Definitely, yeah.

All right, a guy called

Abu Ahmed, from Kuwait.

Yes, I remember him. The nice guy.

How close was he? What was his

relationship to the leadership?

I don't know.

Did he eat with you guys?

Did he eat with the good guys,

or did he eat with the leadership?

I don't know, sir. I

have no idea about it.

That's something you

don't need an idea about.

When you met Khalid Sheikh Mohammed,

was this one of the facilitators?

Is this Abu Ahmed?

- KSM, your boss.

- Mukhtar.

"Mukhtar"... "Potato"...

You say, "Po-tah-to"; I say, "F***ing

KSM"; you say, "Mukhtar", okay?

Now, after Mukhtar was

captured, what did Abu Ahmed do?

Abu Ahmed. I believe... I believe,

he went to work for the "Sheik".

Is that him?

- Say it.

- Abu Ahmed.

- Say it again.

- Abu Ahmed.

Abu Ahmed.

Abu Ahmed.

How's the needle in the haystack?

Fine.

Facilitators come and go.

One thing you can count on in

life is that everyone wants money.

You're assuming that al-Qaeda members

are motivated by financial rewards.

They're radicals.

Correct. You're assuming that, uh,

greed won't override ideology

in some of the weaker members.

Money for walk-ins worked great in

the Cold War, I'll give you that.

Thank you.

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