Editing Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi (section)

==Cooperation with the FBI==

Al-Libi was turned over to the [[FBI]] and held at [[Bagram Air Base]].<ref name="risen"/> When talking to the FBI interrogators Russell Fincher and Marty Mahon, he seemed "genuinely friendly" and spoke chiefly in English, calling for a translator only when necessary. He seemed to bond with Fincher, a devout Christian, and the two prayed together and discussed religion at length.<ref name="mayer">{{cite book |first=Jane |last=Mayer |author-link=Jane Mayer |title=Dark side: the inside story of how the war on terror turned into a war on American ideals |publisher=[[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]] |location=[[Garden City, New York]] |year=2008 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/darksideinsidest00maye/page/105 105–107, 134] |isbn=978-0-385-52639-5 |oclc=229309144 |title-link=The Dark Side (book) }}</ref>

Al-Libi told the interrogators details about [[Richard Reid]], a British citizen who had joined al-Qaeda and trained to carry out a suicide bombing of an airliner, which he unsuccessfully attempted on December 22, 2001. Al-Libi agreed to continue cooperating if the United States would allow his wife and her family to emigrate, while he was prosecuted within the American legal system.<ref name="mayer"/>