The terrorist, who is facing military trial after admitting responsibility "from A to Z" for the attacks on America on September 11 2001, was also rewarded with chocolate bars for doing "homework" for the prison guards.
He is the confessed mastermind of the world's worst terrorist attack, who, as Osama bin Laden's trusted lieutenant, became a symbol of al-Qaeda's campaign of hate.
However, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Guantanamo Bay's most notorious inmate, is apparently a Harry Potter fan who was once allowed to redesign a vacuum cleaner in an attempt to keep him sane in prison.
The terrorist, who is facing military trial after admitting responsibility "from A to Z" for the attacks on America on September 11 2001, was also rewarded with chocolate bars for doing "homework" for the prison guards.
Mohammed was apparently allowed to redesign a vacuum cleaner to stop him losing his mind while undergoing extreme CIA interrogation techniques at a secret "black site" US prison in Romania a decade ago. He was subjected to the most extreme interrogation techniques, including being forced to stay awake for 180 hours continuously and being waterboarded 183 times.
"We didn't want them to go nuts," a former unnamed senior CIA official told the Associated Press, stating that Mohammed, who has a 1986 degree in mechanical engineering from a North Carolina university, used online guides to redesign the household appliance.
The disclosure raises the possibility that the CIA is in possession of a highly classified vacuum cleaner design, but Mohammed's lawyer said he could not confirm whether the terrorist's blueprint existed. "It sounds ridiculous," said Jason Wright.
"But answering this question, or confirming or denying the very existence of a vacuum cleaner design … would apparently expose the US government and its citizens to exceptionally grave danger." The CIA stated that the records, "should they exist", would be considered operational files of the CIA - among its most highly classified category of government files - and therefore exempt from ever being released to the public.
While in Romania, Mohammed also became a big fan of the Harry Potter series of books, the official claimed. However, the Kuwaiti terrorist, who has admitted roles in 30 jihadi plots including using his "blessed right hand" to behead the Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002, may have had ulterior motives for his reported obsession with JK Rowling's tales of sorcery.
Mohammed was once caught trying to hide a message on the pages of a novel warning his fellow inmates not to talk about bin Laden's courier. Along with the other five detainees at the black site prison code-named "Britelite" in Bucharest, Mohammed was given assignments about his knowledge of al-Qaeda, or "homework", as CIA officers called it. As a reward, he was apparently given Snickers bars.
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