The al-Qaida attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, may now seem like a distant memory for some. But not for Ali Soufan, a former FBI agent who interrogated many al-Qaida suspects. "For me, it has the feeling ...

As an FBI interrogator, Ali Soufan went toe to toe with some of the most wanted terrorists in the world, including Salim Hamdan, Osama Bin Laden’s former driver, and Abu Jandal, his bodyguard.

In the new book The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against al-Qaeda, former FBI agent and interrogator Ali Soufan says that the government missed key opportunities to prevent ...

Ali Soufan was one of the FBI's secret weapons in its fight against al Qaeda. A Lebanese-American, fluent in Arabic, he interrogated al Qaeda prisoners at secret locations all over the world.

Al Qaeda is a group that prizes symmetry and symbolism. When I interrogated Osama bin Laden's personal propagandist and secretary, Ali al Bahlul, at Guantanamo Bay in 2002, he confessed that they ...

Nine years after the C.I.A. blacked out parts of Ali Soufan’s book, the agency has finally allowed a more complete version of his story to be published. By Charlie Savage and Carol Rosenberg ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Ali H. Soufan was a Supervisory Special Agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation with seven videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2009 Senate ...

Ex-FBI Official 'We Left Our Most Important Prisoners To Amateurs' Former FBI agent Ali Soufan was one of the first to interrogate terror suspects at Guantanamo. He ...

Ali Soufan: Hamas and Hezbollah were doing exercises this year on the borders, an exercise similar to what Hamas did on October 7. Maybe the exercises were misread by Israeli intelligence.

In early May, officials with the C.I.A. reached out to Ali Soufan, a former F.B.I. agent who served as a lead investigator in the months before the September 11th attacks, to say they had learned ...

Former FBI Agent Ali Soufan, shown here in New York in 2018, interrogated many al-Qaida suspects after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. Soufan's 2011 book on that topic, The Black Banners, included ...

The al-Qaida attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, may now seem like a distant memory for some. But not for Ali Soufan, a former FBI agent who interrogated many al-Qaida suspects. "For me, it has the feeling ...