9/11 Mastermind Confesses in Guantanamo

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9/11 Mastermind Confesses in Guantanamo

By LOLITA C. BALDOR

WASHINGTON Mar 15, 2007 (AP)— Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, confessed to that attack and a chilling string of other terror plots during a military hearing at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to a transcript released Wednesday by the Pentagon.

"I was responsible for the 9/11 operation from A to Z," Mohammed said in a statement read during the session, which was held last Saturday.

The transcripts also refer to a claim by Mohammed that he was tortured by the CIA, although he said he was not under duress at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo when he confessed to his role in the attacks.

In a section of the statement that was blacked out, he confessed to the beheading of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, The Associated Press has learned. Pearl was abducted in January 2002 in Pakistan while researching a story on Islamic militancy. Mohammed has long been a suspect in the killing.

Using his own words, the extraordinary transcript connects Mohammed to dozens of the worst terror plots attempted or carried out in the last 15 years and to others that have not occurred. All told, thousands have died in operations he directed.

His words draw al-Qaida closer to plots of the early 1990s than the group has previously been connected to, including the 1993 World Trade Center truck bombing. Six people with links to global terror networks were convicted in federal court and sentenced to life in prison.

It also makes clear that al-Qaida wanted to down a second trans-Atlantic aircraft during would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid's operation.

Mohammed said he was involved in planning the 2002 bombing of a Kenya beach resort frequented by Israelis and the failed missile attack on an Israeli passenger jet after it took off from Mombasa, Kenya. He also said he was responsible for the bombing of a nightclub in Bali, Indonesia. In 2002, 202 were killed when two Bali nightclubs were bombed.

Other plots he said he was responsible for included planned attacks against the Sears Tower in Chicago, the Empire State Building and New York Stock Exchange, the Panama Canal and Big Ben and Heathrow Airport in London none of which happened.
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:confused: why he said this for a first time after years?
 
So, which is it... him or Bin Laden? :dunno:
 
But I find strange that he confess for a first time after long years... :confused:
 
Goodbye Mohammed

If he's responsible for even half the stuff he's confessed to, he needs to join Saddam.
 
Well.. Bin Laden Never confessed to plotting 9/11 that i'm aware of.

And I've heard ALL sorts of conspiracy theories on what happened..

Nobody knows what's true and what's not... And I doubt we'll ever really get the true story.
 
'We Are Enemy Combatant'

In a courtroom diatribe, 9/11's mastermind boasts about his exploits. Is he telling the truth?

By Mark Hosenball
Newsweek

March 26, 2007 issue - In the four years since U.S. and Pakistani forces captured alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, intelligence agencies have disclosed little about his confinement and only selective details about what he told his interrogators. Held for more than three years in secret CIA prisons overseas, KSM, as the government refers to him, was subjected to aggressive interrogation methods. Last year KSM was moved to the prison at Guantánamo Bay with 13 other "high value" terrorists.


Now comes the next phase of KSM's long, slow trip through post-9/11 justice. On March 10, he was brought into a small, barren courtroom, where he faced a panel of anonymous U.S. military officers who must determine if he is an "enemy combatant" subject to trial by a military tribunal.

For the first time since his capture, Mohammed was given the opportunity to speak publicly on his own behalf. In a rambling diatribe in fractured English, he did not hold back his feelings. "For sure, I'm American enemies ... So when we say we are enemy combatant, that right. We are," he told the tribunal, according to a censored account of his testimony made public by the Pentagon. KSM expressed regret about those who died in the attacks: "When I said I'm not happy that 3,000 been killed in America, I feel sorry even. I don't like to kill children and the kids."

He went on to compare himself and other Qaeda leaders to America's Founding Fathers: "As consider George Washington as hero, Muslims, many of them, are considering Osama bin Laden. He is doing the same thing. He is just fighting." In a written statement read out to the tribunal, KSM claimed credit for more than 30 terror plots, though his list of crimes included a considerable measure of exaggeration. "I would discount 25 percent of what he said in terms of his personal responsibility," says Michael Scheuer, former head of the CIA unit that tracked Osama bin Laden. Another former CIA official—who, like other intelligence sources, asked for anonymity due to the sensitive subject matter—said interrogators quickly recognized KSM's egomania: "He was known to have a large ego and would regularly take credit for anything he was in the vicinity of." That has left government officials to figure out which of KSM's stories are true, and which are exaggerations or outright lies.
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Is Shaikh Mohammed Telling the Truth? - Newsweek The War in Iraq - MSNBC.com

I'm not surprised about court's reaction on his confession.
 
Reba said:
The court didn't say those things. Those were the opinions of the writer. The court hasn't yet made a statement.
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Yes I know that the court didn't make a statement yet. I should say that I will not be surprised about court's reaction on this.
 
Liebling:-))) said:
Yes I know that the court didn't make a statement yet. I should say that I will not be surprised about court's reaction on this.
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:confused: How can you "not be surprised" when you don't even know what their reaction will be? Are you a psychic? ;)
 
Reba said:
:confused: How can you "not be surprised" when you don't even know what their reaction will be? Are you a psychic? ;)
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Simple answer:

Why he confess his responsiblity for a first time after years? It sounds pretty illogical to me. Many people says the same things. We didn't say anything about his confession until the court ....... then we will know more... Yes I will be not surprise to know the court's reaction to doubt his confession. Why say this for a first time? pretty illogical.
 
Reba said:
:confused: How can you "not be surprised" when you don't even know what their reaction will be? Are you a psychic? ;)
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C'mon...I'm sure you have been down that path in the past with 'being 'not' surprised' with the outcome of someone's or a group's reaction before. ;)







~RR
 
Roadrunner said:
C'mon...I'm sure you have been down that path in the past with 'being 'not' surprised' with the outcome of someone's or a group's reaction before. ;)

~RR
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Yes, but they haven't stated the outcome yet.

How can anyone be "surprised" or not "surprised" by a future event that hasn't yet happened?

The key word is "outcome". There is no "outcome" yet. The court has not yet made a decision. :)
 
Liebling:-))) said:
But I find strange that he confess for a first time after long years... :confused:
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Hmmm... perhaps this is the first opportunity that he has had to confess due to the trial. Perhaps he want's to become a martyr. I am curious what you are suggesting based on your question. Do you think that he was tortured into confession by US military officials or the US government had something to do with his confession? Do you think there was foul play at hand?
 
Liebling:-))) said:
Simple answer:

Why he confess his responsiblity for a first time after years? It sounds pretty illogical to me. Many people says the same things. We didn't say anything about his confession until the court ....... then we will know more... Yes I will be not surprise to know the court's reaction to doubt his confession. Why say this for a first time? pretty illogical.
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The court has not said one word about their decision. There is no "outcome", not yet.

The court has not yet said, "yea" or "nay". We don't know their decision. How can we have an opinion about a decision that has not yet been stated?
 
rockdrummer said:
Hmmm... perhaps this is the first opportunity that he has had to confess due to the trial. Perhaps he want's to become a martyr. I am curious what you are suggesting based on your question. Do you think that he was tortured into confession by US military officials or the US government had something to do with his confession? Do you think there was foul play at hand?
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No comment... I can't say anything yet until more proofs come...

All what I say is his confession for a first time after years is a strange.... pretty illogical. This is so.
 
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