9/11 mastermind (Khalid Sheikh Mohammed) confesses in Guantanamo

Yahoo News ^ | 3/14/07 | LOLITA C. BALDOR, Associated Press Writer

[Chi-townChief]

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, confessed to that attack and a string of others during a military hearing at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to a transcript released Wednesday by the Pentagon.

Mohammed claimed responsibility for planning, financing, and training others for bombings ranging from the 1993 attack at the World Trade Center to the attempt by would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid to blow up a trans-Atlantic flight with explosives hidden in his shoes.

In all, Mohammed said he was responsible for planning 29 individual attacks, including many that were never executed. The comments were included in a 26-page transcript released by the Pentagon, which also blacked out some of his remarks.

The Pentagon also released transcripts of the hearings of Abu Faraj al-Libi and Ramzi Binalshibh.

Binalshibh is suspected of helping Mohammed with the Sept. 11, 2001, attack plan and is also linked to a foiled plot to crash aircraft into London's Heathrow Airport. Al-Libi is a Libyan who reportedly masterminded two bombings 11 days apart in Pakistan in December 2003 that targeted President Pervez Musharraf for his support of the U.S.-led war on terror.

The hearings, which began last Friday, are being conducted in secret by the military as it tries to determine whether 14 alleged terrorist leaders should be declared "enemy combatants" who can be held indefinitely and prosecuted by military tribunals.

Hearings for six of the 14 have already been held. The military is not allowing reporters to attend the sessions and is limiting the information it provides about them, arguing that it wants to prevent sensitive information from being disclosed.

The 14 were moved in September from a secret CIA prison network to the prison at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, where about 385 men are being held on suspicion of links to al-Qaida or the Taliban.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

I don't completely agree with Khalid Shaikh Mohammed on all the social issues, but he's a tough guy and he can definitely beat Hillary.

We can't afford to be purists in times like these.

[sgtbono2002]

Moran is a Putz.

He doesnt know excrement from Shinola.

[lonestar67]

No special powers are needed. Commander and chief can do this.

Nazi saboteurs got instant hangings during WWII with far less procedures than you are presuming.

Moreover, as noted elsewhere Congress did and has continued to authorize GItmo actions.

I am not sure why you keep trying to harp on this.

[cardinal4]

Why would it be? It's in the administration's interest to release that sort of information.

For the same reason (a reason I dont know)they wont come clean about the anthrax attacks. Over the years since 2001, I have become convinced Saddam was behind them. Why wont the admin fess up?

[ohioWfan]

I absolutely agree. Laugh was not the right word.

I wouldn't at all be surprised if a large number of these mindless Bush bashers would just love to have Hillary win the election. They sing the same song as the leftists, so why should we be surprised to find out that they are leftists?

Most of them are clearly not the brightest bulbs in the box, and don't seem to be clever enough to hide who they really are.....

[I see my hands]

"If we had a real leader, he would attack the Dems for trying to break Gitmo apart"

You know nothing about leadership. Leaders accomplish, you spew incoherence about an attack.

[keats5]

Bookmarking an historic event.

[ohioWfan]

Real leaders don't need idle words to feel manly.

This is an amazing accomplishment that is the direct result of the true leadership of George W. Bush.

These naysayers will never understand that in a million years.....

[Albion Wilde]

Just wondering that myself. Now that the left has driven the "evil" Rummy out, what did they do? Take away his iPod?

[Albion Wilde]

A plot to assassinate uber-lord-of-moonbats Bill Clinton: Uh oh...Prepare for moonbat heads to explode!

Now what are they going to do about their "Dubya's revenge for tryin' to kill my Daddy" talking point?

[I see my hands]

"They sing the same song as the leftists, so why should we be surprised to find out that they are leftists?"

They think dropping a few terms from the right wing lexicon makes them sound saner than the Code Pink hags whose posters they likely have taped to the ceiling over their bed.

This traitor park right trash isn't committed to Conservatism, they are obsessed with their own insecurity.

[Battle Axe]

That was very early on. Just after his capture, when the Moonbats were thinking it was still Hatfill.

No he did not say who that I know of. But if he is singing like a canary, I hope he tweets in our direction.

I know who it is, so do the three federal agents who interviewed me. He is from the same town where KSM was captured or almost captured...I forget...in my old age. But same vicinity.

Now......of all the places in the whole world that KSM and the anthrax mailer could be.......what are the chances that it is the same country, same region and same town???????????

[Albion Wilde]

...the deeply held fear that he could be forced to wear his underpants on his head steadily ate away at his resolve.

Skid marks?

[ohioWfan]

I'm going to have a face to face encounter with Code Pink and ANSWER at the Gathering of Eagles on Saturday.

I wonder how many 'true conservatives' will be among them?

[ohioWfan]

You're not missing anything, lonestar.

This puts a big official exclamation point on the FACT that Saddam and AQ were in cahoots prior to 9/11.

Pinging document translating expert jveritas to this thread.......

[XR7]

What did they use to crack him...?

The pink underwear maybe?

[reefdiver]

He'll be sitting between Michael Moore an Jimmy Carter at the next convention, Might even give a keynote address on Global warming - and Why we hate you

[Enduring Freedom]

this is huge!

this is proof positive that clinton could have prevented 9/11 had he properly pursued the masterminds behind the 1993 WTC attack!

[oceanview]

guaranteed.

couldn't they just keep dunking him on the waterboard until he gave it all up?

[bwteim]

In the whacked out world of Appeasers and Defeatists such a scenario would fit right in;)