International Monthly Dinner Series: Washington, DC
Matthew Alexander: Interrogating Terrorists
Innovative Methods for the Post-Waterboarding Era
Matthew Alexander is author of How to Break a Terrorist: The U.S. Interrogators Who Used Brains, Not Brutality, To Take Down the Deadliest Man in Iraq, published in December 2008.
Finding Abu Musab al Zarqawi, the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, had long been the U.S. military's top priority. No brutality was spared in trying to squeeze ntelligence from Zarqawi's suspected associates. But in the wake of the torture scandal at Abu Ghraib, a new breed of interrogators emerged that used innovative interrogation techniques, rather than torture, to get information from prisons. Matthew Alexander, a former criminal investigator for the Air Force and head of the new interrogation team, was sent to Iraq for that purpose. Alexander reveals the methods they used and their astounding success rate.
| CENSA HOST: | Daniel Vergamini, CENSA DC Chapter Director |
| DATE: | Wednesday, June 10, 2009 |
| TIME: | 6:30pm 9:00 pm |
| VENUE: |
Two Nineteen Restaurant 219 King Street, Alexandria, VA 22314 (703) 549-1141 / www.219restaurant.com |
Registration
To attend you must pre-register by Monday, June 8, 2009. A choice of entrées for a three course prix fixe dinner will be served for $55.00 for CENSA members and $65.00 for non-members (price includes gratuity and tax - beverages not included).
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Additional Information
For information on upcoming Washington, DC programs or questions please contact CENSA DC Director Daniel Vergamini at dcverg@hotmail.com.
Speaker Biography
Matthew Alexander (a pseudonym) spent fourteen years in the United States Air Force and Air Force Reserves. He started his career as a pilot flying Special Operations helicopters and is a combat veteran of Bosnia and Kosovo. For the next seven years, Alexander operated as a counterintelligence agent and criminal investigator conducting operations across Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East. Alexander deployed to Saudi Arabia at the beginning of the Iraq War in 2003 to command a detachment of special agents at the coalition's largest air base, successfully protecting it from terrorist attacks. Three years later he returned to the war after he volunteered and was selected to be an interrogator for an elite task force. He rose to be its senior interrogator. He has personally conducted more than 300 interrogations and supervised more than 1,000. Alexander was awarded the Bronze Star Medal for his achievements in Iraq, including finding Abu Musab Al Zarqawi, the notorious Al Qaida leader. He has two advanced degrees, in organizational management and international relations, has worked and traveled in over fifty countries, and speaks three languages. He is the author of How to Break a Terrorist: The U.S. Interrogators Who Used Brains, Not Brutality, to Take Down the Deadliest Man in Iraq, and The Hornet's Nest, to be published in 2010. Alexander has appeared more than twenty times on television as an expert on interrogations, has conducted more than forty radio interviews, and has published Op-Eds in The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and The New York Times.
