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Focus: The confessions of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
Sunday Times ^ | March 28, 2004 | Christina Lamb in Kabul

Posted on 03/28/2004 9:02:54 AM PST by 1066AD

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1 posted on 03/28/2004 9:02:54 AM PST by 1066AD
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To: 1066AD
The problem is in believing anything these life-long lying murderers say. One can only guess what stories Saddam is telling the CIA....
2 posted on 03/28/2004 9:15:00 AM PST by xJones
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To: 1066AD
To date, Mohammed is the most senior Al-Qaeda member to have been caught. Until now there has been no word of where he is being held or what, if anything, he is saying.

Still it doesn't stop this newspaper from printing this BS, and using direct quotes. - tom

3 posted on 03/28/2004 9:34:28 AM PST by Capt. Tom (Don't confuse the Bushies with the dumb republicans. - Capt. Tom)
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To: xJones
There are certain things I believe completely about these creatures, and do not need proof to substantiate - they are vermin; they hate us; they will seek any edge against us, even our own code of honor and humanity to harm us; and finally, like the vermin they are... they must be completely annihilated, preferably only after we've drained their memories of every single bit of data that we can use against their kind, and before we exterminate them, wrap them up in pigskin and televise their reactions.

J
4 posted on 03/28/2004 9:38:49 AM PST by CGVet58 (God has granted us liberty, and we owe Him courage in return)
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To: Pan_Yan
ping
5 posted on 03/28/2004 9:47:12 AM PST by Pan_Yans Wife (Much of your pain is self-chosen. --- Kahlil Gibran)
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To: CGVet58
Well, I don't disagree with anything you said. Very eloquent and to the point.
6 posted on 03/28/2004 9:54:52 AM PST by xJones
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To: CGVet58
Dead on!
7 posted on 03/28/2004 10:40:13 AM PST by Cincinnatus.45-70 (Accuracy counts, but caliber is important, too.)
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To: 1066AD; Ragtime Cowgirl; Howlin; MeeknMing
Superb article. This really gives the flavor of how the Bush administration responded after 9/11. Whether we knew it or not, the terrorist networks really felt the pressure, and they knew they had to get on the run --- quite unexpectedly.

I guess they thought they were still dealing with Clintoon and his vaunted "anti-terrorism" staff. They rapidly discovered otherwise.
8 posted on 03/28/2004 12:03:05 PM PST by AFPhys (My Passion review: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1089021/posts?page=13#13)
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To: AFPhys
I guess they thought they were still dealing with Clintoon and his vaunted "anti-terrorism" staff. They rapidly discovered otherwise.

It saddens me that many will be persuaded by Richard Clarke that Bush dropped the ball. I saw a poll on television that 53 percent of those who watched the hearings found Clark believible.

What also saddens me is the fact that all the bs going on in this campaign year is doing nothing but giving solace and strength to the terrorists.

I would hope that when they go to the voting booth, the majority of Americans will reject the libs line and vote to keep the country strong.

9 posted on 03/28/2004 12:35:44 PM PST by Lawgvr1955 (I am not completely worthless; I can always serve as a "bad example".)
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To: AFPhys; 1066AD; Happy2BMe; PhilDragoo; devolve; yall
When he was captured in March last year in the house of a microbiologist in Rawalpindi, the paunchy 37-year old was unshaven and wearing a baggy vest. He looked more like a down-and-out than one of the most dangerous men in the world.

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Mark Steyn: America is winning

KSM is known in al-Qa’eda circles as ‘The Brain’, and his picture on the FBI ‘Most Wanted’ list shows a cold but dapper fellow with a trim beard — like the Westernised Arab academics who play the talkshow circuit or, indeed, an assistant choreographer on a Broadway revival. . .


By contrast, the fellow seized in Rawalpindi is a wreck — haggard, bleary, unshaven, a loser who’s run out of everything except back hair. Asked to account for the stark difference in appearance, several experts pointed out that he’s a ‘master of disguise’. In that case, the master of disguise is doing a great job of convincingly passing himself off as a guy who’s been sleeping in a hedge for a month. The state of KSM provides a glimpse of the career options available to top al-Qa’eda honchos: either, like bin Laden, you go into deep cover as a few specks of DNA discreetly sprinkled in the rubble of Tora Bora, or, like ‘The Brain’, you’ve a choice between hunkering down in a ‘safe house’ or staying on the move, never knowing, even when you’re motoring through the emptiness of the Yemeni desert, if some unmanned CIA Predator will drop the big one on you. Of course, many al-Qa’eda operatives are hoping to be on a fast track to martyrdom and the 72 virgins. But you gotta have a couple of guys who stay alive long enough to instruct the neophytes in how to kill themselves, and right now al-Qa’eda’s management structure is looking severely hobbled.



10 posted on 03/28/2004 1:34:59 PM PST by MeekOneGOP (The Democrats say they believe in CHOICE. I have chosen to vote STRAIGHT TICKET GOP for years !!)
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To: onyx
ping !

11 posted on 03/28/2004 1:42:08 PM PST by MeekOneGOP (The Democrats say they believe in CHOICE. I have chosen to vote STRAIGHT TICKET GOP for years !!)
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To: 1066AD; AFPhys; Alamo-Girl; onyx; ALOHA RONNIE; SpookBrat; Republican Wildcat; Howlin; ...
Focus: The confessions of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

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When the suicide planes struck on September 11, Al-Qaeda seems to have been taken by surprise — both by the success of the attacks and by the American reaction. “Afterwards we never got time to catch our breath, we were immediately on the run,” said Mohammed. He said the war on terrorism and the American bombing of Afghanistan completely disrupted their communications network. Operatives could no longer use satellite phones and had to rely on couriers, although they still used internet chat rooms.



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12 posted on 03/28/2004 1:56:51 PM PST by MeekOneGOP (The Democrats say they believe in CHOICE. I have chosen to vote STRAIGHT TICKET GOP for years !!)
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To: 1066AD
“We were looking for symbols of economic might,” he told his captors.

A statement that can be seen as destructive to ALL of humanity.

Who, other than the truly evil, could dispute "The Bush Doctrine"?

I recall seeing Zacarias Moussaoui in shackles as he was being taken from Minnesota to another location and a sympathetic air to humankind was not an expression conveyed by him.

13 posted on 03/28/2004 2:24:01 PM PST by EGPWS
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To: MeekOneGOP
Bump!
14 posted on 03/28/2004 2:26:26 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: MeekOneGOP
He said the war on terrorism and the American bombing of Afghanistan completely disrupted their communications network.

Unfortunately, Kerry and the rest of the Democrats aren't aware of these facts.

15 posted on 03/28/2004 4:00:05 PM PST by Victoria Delsoul (Kerry's 3 Purple Hearts are: 2 for minor arm and thigh injury and 1 for killing a semi-dead VietCong)
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To: MeekOneGOP
GREAT POST MEEK!!!!!!!!!
16 posted on 03/28/2004 4:20:48 PM PST by Happy2BMe (U.S.A. - - United We Stand - - Divided We Fall - - Support Our Troops - - Vote BUSH)
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To: 1066AD; Salem; dennisw; SJackson; Stopislamnow; JohnHuang2; Sabertooth; B4Ranch; Geist Krieger; ...

"Focus: The confessions of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed"

COME SEE THIS - ping.

(This is the WORM who planned BOTH attacks on the WTC - in OUR CUSTODY NOW!)

17 posted on 03/28/2004 4:28:39 PM PST by Happy2BMe (U.S.A. - - United We Stand - - Divided We Fall - - Support Our Troops - - Vote BUSH)
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To: MeekOneGOP
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NEVER FORGET

At the very time the CLINTON White House refused the first of 3 Offers from the Sudan during the 1990's to hand over OSAMA bin LADEN to us on a Silver Platter...

MOHAMMED was getting his permission from OSAMA bin LADEN to start planning the Attacks of Sept. 11th.

NEVER FORGET
18 posted on 03/28/2004 5:01:39 PM PST by ALOHA RONNIE (Vet-Battle of IA DRANG-1965 http://www.LZXRAY.com)
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To: Happy2BMe
Listening to these killers only reiterates the importance of seeing Bush returned to the White House. With all that any could criticize him on domestic policy, his aggressively pursuing and apprehending these criminal wherever they may hide—not negotiating with them like a Democrat Administration would have done, guarantees the operational tempo against the bloodthirsty sons of Mohammad and Jihadistan.

Kerry and a Democrat Administration would guarantee an immediate U.S. acquiescence to UN control and the utopian globalist lunacy of the extremist left which has poisoned that party to the core, and surrender of U.S. uniqueness and individuality to the same.


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19 posted on 03/28/2004 5:48:24 PM PST by Salem (FREE REPUBLIC - Fighting to win within the Arena of the War of Ideas! So get in the fight!)
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To: Salem; dennisw; SJackson
I'm sure you've been listening to the latest Qaeda threats - the U.S.A. is the MAIN TARGET of their HATRED - even before Israel.
20 posted on 03/28/2004 6:21:05 PM PST by Happy2BMe (U.S.A. - - United We Stand - - Divided We Fall - - Support Our Troops - - Vote BUSH)
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