Zero Dark Thirty
2012
- Director:
- Kathryn Bigelow
- Studio:
- Annapurna Pictures, First Light
- Starring:
- Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke, Joel Edgerton
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Maya is a CIA analyst tasked with finding the al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. In 2003, she is stationed at the U.S. embassy in Pakistan. She and CIA officer Dan Fuller take part in the black site interrogations of Ammar, a detainee who is the nephew of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, with suspected links to several of the hijackers in the September 11 attacks. After use of approved enhanced interrogation techniques, Ammar provides unreliable information on a suspected attack in Saudi Arabia, but reveals the name of the personal courier for bin Laden, Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti. Other detainee intelligence connects Abu Ahmed to courier traffic between Abu Faraj al-Libbi and bin Laden. In 2005 at a CIA black site, Maya attempts to interrogate Faraj. He denies knowing about a courier named Abu Ahmed; Maya interprets this as an attempt by Faraj to conceal Abu Ahmed's importance.