By Olga Craig
Last Updated: 1:26am GMT 09/03/2003
Telegraph.Co.UK
Two young sons of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the September 11 attacks, are being used by the CIA to force their father to talk.
Yousef al-Khalid, nine, and his brother, Abed al-Khalid, seven, were taken into custody in Pakistan last September when intelligence officers raided a flat in Karachi where their father had been hiding.
...The boys have been held by the Pakistani authorities but this weekend they were flown to America where they will be questioned about their father.
Last night CIA interrogators confirmed that the boys were staying at a secret address where they were being encouraged to talk about their father's activities.
...Their father, Mohammed, 37, is being interrogated at the Bagram US military base in Afghanistan.
He is being held in solitary confinement and subjected to "stress and duress"-style interrogation techniques.
He has been told that his sons are being held and he is being encouraged to divulge future attacks against the West and talk about the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden.
"He has said very little so far," one CIA official said yesterday...
"His sons are important to him. The promise of their release and their return to Pakistan may be the psychological lever we need to break him."
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