Nakhleh, Emile - short clip - RecognizingRadicalMuslims

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-	But you know, the Quran is like	0:00
	to the Surahs in the Quran.	0:02
	The 160 something chapters in the Quran are like two parts.	0:04
	One part was revealed to Muhammad in Mecca,	0:08
	and one part was revealed in Medina.	0:11
	And in Medina when he was fighting	0:14
	and trying to create state and so on.	0:17
	So those chapters, that were revealed in Medina,	0:19
	tend to be more war-like.	0:22
	The universalist principles about Moses,	0:24
	and Jesus, and Christians and the people of the book,	0:27
	and universalist doctrines, were revealed in Mecca.	0:30
	So when you talk to a radical Muslim or a Muslim,	0:36
	you can almost tell	0:40
	by the chapters they quote to you from the Quran.	0:44
	So when I went to Guantanamo,	0:49
	I took a Quran with me, copy of the Quran with me.	0:51
	And I had it on the table, and then I took	0:54
	a box of chocolates and candies and so on you see.	0:56
	And so when I spent two, two and a half hours with each.	1:01
	With no...	1:05
	I did not, ya know...	1:07
	I interviewed about two dozen people,	1:08
	with no interpreter.	1:13
	So I selected at random, people who spoke Arabic.	1:16
	And based on my, on my judgment,	1:21
	that at the time I said, "Over 1/3,	1:25
	"should have been released immediately.	1:29
	"They don't belong there." And I was very conservative,	1:31
	because the commanding officer, a couple of years later,	1:35
	was interviewed and in his view he thought,	1:39
	"60 percent should have been released immediately."	1:42
	And of course, since then over 75 percent,	1:47
	have been released.	1:52

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Title:

Nakhleh, Emile - short clip - RecognizingRadicalMuslims

Date:

April 10, 2013

Interviewer:

Honigsberg, Peter Jan

Interviewee:

Nakhleh, Emile

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Description:

This interview may include descriptions of violence.
Senior Intelligence Service Officer (CIA)
Emile Nakhleh, male, age 74, was a senior intelligence service officer and director of the Political Islam Strategic Analysis Program in the Directorate of Intelligence at the CIA.
Description was provided by Witness to Guantanamo.

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oral histories

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English

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1:30:28

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