“Matthew Alexander” (not his real name), a former Air Force interrogator in Iraq, was responsible for the intelligence that led to al Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
Speaking at a Spy Museum event Monday night, he explained that Abu Khader, the man who gave him Zarqawi, might be familiar to American moviegoers.
Khader was “the Hannibal Lecter of al Qaeda,” explained Alexander, who co-wrote the book “How to Break a Terrorist.” “If you can picture Anthony Hopkins, you can picture this guy. He was very smart, he was very manipulative, very intellectual.”
And as for himself, Alexander said he “played the male version of Jodie Foster, trying to get him to lead me to Buffalo Bill.”
And so, five and a half hours into a six-hour interrogation, Khader finally relented and gave up Zarqawi.
So for Alexander, you could say the lambs stopped screaming.
