TS::SCI::INTERROGATION TRANSCRIPT — DETAINEES CAPTURED BY MSOT 8311 SULTANS WRATH 01-25::TS::SCI - June 26th, 2025

[SSgt Waller]

INTERROGATION TRANSCRIPT — DETAINEES CAPTURED BY MSOT 8311 SULTANS WRATH 01-25

Classification: SECRET – HUMINT / Operational Use Only
Date: 24–25 June 2025
Location: COP Atlas, Western Sahara AO
Conducted by: 3dMRB S-2 Intelligence, HUMINT Collection Team

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Session 1: Detainee D-01

• Profile: Male, approx. 25–30, Polisario fighter.

• Disposition: Aggressive, confrontational.

Q: Who commanded the ambush?
A: “Command? You think we need your ranks, your shiny uniforms and papers? We fight because we must. Every man in that desert knows his duty. One day our people will be free, inshallah.” 

Q: Who is "Youssef"? (NOTE: Suspected nom de guerre of OPFOR Commander - collected through SIGINT during Sultans Wrath 01-25) 
A: [leans forward] “Youssef fights for our people, not for a king who sells the land to foreigners. He fought before, he fights with his people now. That is all you need to know.”

Q: Three US diplomats are dead. How did your people know the convoy’s route?
A: “The minister travels with your diplomats, thinking the desert belongs to Rabat and Washington. Everyone knows your patterns. The sand speaks, and so do greedy traitors in Morocco’s offices. They would sell their mother for the right price.”

Q: Your people executed a textbook L-shape ambush. Where did that training come from?
A: [smirks] “From watching you. From your manuals, your arrogance. You taught Algeria, and now your lessons come back at you. You gave us the tools, and we sharpened them.”

Q: Did Youssef train with U.S. forces?
A: “Maybe he trained in Algeria, maybe in your own bases. Does it sting to know your own programs make us stronger?”

— End Session. D-01 repeatedly frames U.S. as an occupier’s enabler, defiant and ideological. Provided no direct admissions, but confirmed awareness of U.S.-Algerian training links.

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Session 2: Detainee D-02

• Profile: Male, approx. 35–40, senior Polisario fighter.

• Disposition: Cold, combative but more measured.

Q: Who led your ambush?
A: “I will only answer if you promise to not hand me over to the Morrocans. They do not treat their prisoners well. My brother has been missing for 15 years." 

Q: We can't promise you that. The more you cooperate the better your chances are at remaining in US custody.

A: “Truthfulness leads to righteousness, and righteousness leads to Paradise.” [Note: later identified as a muslim proverb] "Call him Youssef. I suspect you already know the name. He is Sahrawi in heart, Algerian in past. He has seen your soldiers up close — maybe even wore your patch for a time. Does that frighten you?”

Q: Was he part of Algerian army training with the U.S.?
A: “Your country trained many in Algiers. You sent officers, you taught convoy drills, counter-terror. You thought they would fight your wars. Instead they fight ours. You cannot undo that.”

Q: How was the convoy compromised?
A: “Do you think Morocco keeps secrets? Their officials sell them for money, for favors. Your people trust a rotten house, then wonder why the roof falls.”

Q: Where are your explosives coming from?
A: “From friends who still believe we are more than shadows. The crates had cyrillc writing, but the fire is Sahrawi. You cannot stop it.”

Q: What is your objective with these attacks?
A: [raises voice] “Our objective? Freedom! The same word your country claims to live by. But you arm the king and call us terrorists. We are the Sahrawi people, and until the last camp in Tindouf is empty, until the wall falls, we will fight — with your tactics if we must, against your allies if we must.”

— End Session. D-02 provided sharper ideological justification, acknowledged possible IMET/TSCTP exposure indirectly, and deliberately positioned U.S. as complicit in Sahrawi oppression.

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HUMINT Exploitation Notes

• Both detainees leveraged interrogation to push a political narrative and not a religious one, positioning U.S. as an enabler of Moroccan oppression. Deep seated religious beliefs remain however a factor.

• References to IMET and TSCTP were made indirectly, framed as proof that U.S. training seeded their tactical proficiency.

• Youssef possibly identified as ex-Algerian army with foreign training exposure; detainees deliberately taunted U.S. interrogators with this fact.

• High ideological motivation: detainees more concerned with message projection than self-preservation.