and abu zubaydah, and ramzi bin al shibh, and al nashiri, i can tell you that, in their minds, it has everything to do with islam. their interpretation? their interpretation, their salafist, islamist interpretation of islam. james mitchell, welcome to hardtalk. thanks for having me on. so, there you were, after more than 20 years in the us air force. you d retired, you were working as a consultant for the cia, the september 11th attacks happened, you say to the cia, i want to be part of the solution. why? it was an attack on our homeland. the main thing that influenced me to want to volunteer to help out was the death and destruction. the critical thing, when they asked me if i would