Posted on 03/17/2007 5:50:27 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
'I decapitated with my blessed right hand the head of the Jew'
Michael Gawenda Herald Correspondent in Washington March 17, 2007
THE Pentagon has released a previously withheld portion of Khalid Sheik Mohammed's statement to a tribunal at Guantanamo Bay in which he describes how he killed the American journalist Daniel Pearl.
This part of the statement was withheld so that Pearl's family could be prepared for the admission by Mohammed that he had killed Pearl in Karachi, Pakistan in 2002 after the Wall Street Journal reporter had been taken to what he thought was to be an interview with Islamic radicals.
"I decapitated with my blessed right hand the head of the American Jew Daniel Pearl in the city of Karachi, Pakistan," Mohammed said in the statement. "For those who would like to confirm, there are pictures of me on the internet holding his head."
It has long been known that a video of Pearl's slaying and its aftermath has circulated on a number of radical Islamist websites and that Mohammed very probably committed this horrific execution. But his confession that he decapitated Pearl was the first time he had talked about the death.
The confession came in a long and rambling statement by Mohammed at a military tribunal hearing last Saturday that was closed to the media. An edited transcript of the hearing, which was designed to establish whether Mohammed was an enemy combatant and could therefore be held at Guantanamo Bay, was released four days after the hearing.
It is not clear whether claims that he was responsible for planning virtually every serious al-Qaeda attack are believable. The 9/11 Commission report described Mohammed as "flamboyant" and likely to exaggerate his "achievements" though some intelligence experts say that most of what he says is probably true.
"He sees himself as a warrior and this is a very carefully worded statement and I am sure that for the most part, it is true," said Michael Scheuer, a former senior CIA agent who headed the unit that hunted Osama bin Laden before it was disbanded two years ago.
Get a rope, or round up a few riflemen and some bullets... This sucker needs a dirt-nap yesterday.
Rosie O'Donnell's hero.
Strap a TNT belt to him and set him off in a pig farm.
< / deep sac >
Rosie is just being what she is: an idiot.
After they cut his hand off,maybe they should send him over to Britain to join one handed cleric Abu Hamza Al Masri.That bloke has a nurse dedicated to wipe his bottom given that he has a hook on one of hands!!
Hey, maybe he can fly NorthWest Air and sue them when he starts doing his crazed iman IslamoNazi staged performance act?
Someone lend me a hand.
Damn, if I wasn't working I'd actually watch "the view" tomorrow just to see if she ignores this.
O'Reilly and Hannity have both tried to on that show, and both have been attacked relentlessly for daring not to be as liberal as the hosts are. They have to stage this out of NYC, because I doubt they'd ever come up with as braindead an audience anywhere else.
Rosie's specimen of "humanity."
Nahhhh - Don't cut off his left hand, cut off his `blessed right hand' (and place it in a jar of formaldehyde where KSM can see it)!
That way, KSM will either have to feed himself with the hand he's always wiped with, or get someone else to feed him, the worthless Islamic b@stard!!
(Strange.... I eat with both hands. Must be the soap and water I wash them with.)
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