Waterboarded at a CIA Black Site, the 'Number One Terrorist' Gave Up a Name

In this series, Newsweek maps the road to 9/11 as it happened 25 years ago, day by day.

Yesterday: A Phoenix special agent noted an "inordinate number" of suspicious flight students; guessed the terrorists' intentions; made four recommendations. FBI HQ did none.

August 24, 2001: Jordanian intelligence reported on August 24 that al-Qaeda member and Palestinian national Abu Zubaydah was considering mounting attacks in the United States itself.

At a time when the arrest of Zacarias Moussaoui and the search for the California duo—Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi—were going on, the new report was a major diversion...