Posted on 03/14/2007 4:38:58 PM PDT by Chi-townChief
Edited on 03/15/2007 8:23:20 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
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.
I disagree with President Bush on the immigration issue, and a couple other things (I just can't figure out why he's doing this)...
..but the Dems are out for blood, anyway, anyhow, anytime.
Other than providing hosting for terrorists, how did the 93 WTC bombing involve the Iraqi government?
Waterboard. He lasted almost 90 seconds.
Just watched a little of the VIEW ooooh i CANT STAND ROSIE ODONNEL.
Please write and support Elisabeth Hassellhof.
She stood ground while being pounded by Rosie and the rest about how the US tortures people and the US tortured this man until he confessed.
DONT BY THIS AWFUL POOR ME LOOK OF ROSIE. SHE WANTS SYMPATHY. SHE LOOKS AWFUL BECAUSE INSIDE SHE IS FULL OF HATE.
Other than providing hosting for the terrorists, what did Afghanistan have to do with 9/11?
Wikipedia's entry for the Planning and Organization of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing
Planning and organization
Ramzi Yousef, born in Kuwait, began in 1991 to plan a bombing attack within the United States. Yousef's uncle Khalid Shaikh Mohammed Ali Fadden, who later was considered "the principal architect of the 9/11 attacks," gave him advice and tips over the phone, and funded him with a US$660 wire transfer.[1]
Yousef entered the United States with a false Iraqi passport in 1992. Police found instructions on making a bomb in Yousef's partner's luggage. The name Abu Barra, an alias of Mohammed Jamal Khalifa, appeared in the manuals. Yousef's partner was arrested on the spot for his false passport and his bombmaking instructions. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) holding cells were overcrowded, and Yousef, claiming political asylum, was given a hearing date.
Yousef set up residence on Nicole Pickett Avenue in Jersey City, New Jersey, traveled around New York and New Jersey and called Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, a controversial Muslim cleric, via cell phone. After being introduced to his co-conspirators by Abdel-Rahman at the latter's Al-Farooq Mosque in Brooklyn, Yousef began assembling the 1,500-lb urea nitrate-fuel oil device for delivery to WTC. He ordered chemicals from his hospital room when injured in a car crash - one of three accidents caused by Salameh in late 1992 and early in 1993.
El Sayyid Nosair, one of the Blind Sheikh's men who would later be convicted for the bombing, was arrested in 1991 for the murder of Rabbi Meir Kahane. According to prosecutors, "the Red" Mahmud Abouhalima, also convicted in the bombing, told Wadih el Hage to buy the .38 caliber revolver used by Nosair in the Kahane shooting. Nosair was acquitted of murder but convicted of gun charges. Dozens of Arabic bomb-making manuals and documents related to terrorist plots were found in Nosair's New Jersey apartment, with manuals from Army Special Warfare Center at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, secret memos linked to Joint Chiefs of Staff, and 1440 rounds of ammunition. (Lance 2004 26 )
I would also add that in 1998 Saddam Hussein offered sanctuary to Al Qaeda after the US attacked Afghan bases of Al Qaeda. Al Qaeda refused the offer but it demonstrates that assurances that the two never cooperated are absurd.
oops your are right. Thank You
I can't watch that show any longer. It has become so toxic.
Rosie is so full of hate. It use to be fun and you felt good after watching. Now I feel like I need decontamination
from Rosies Toxic talk.
This how the lefties play with Wikipedia, which is why it's so unreliable.
The passport was not false (though saying it was is a favorite talking point of theirs). Yousef's birth date might have been altered, but it was an authentic Iraqi passport. This came out in both Yousef's trial and the 9/11 Commission report.
Is this for real or is this one of those types who confess to crimes just for attention?
Of course it's obvious that any effort in 93 may have prevented the 2001 attack on the WTC except to the media.
But from what I see quickly on CNN and MSNBC the question is "how the information was obtained" and not what was not done in the issuing of traffic tickets in 93.
As many recall, Clinton had no desire to "share the pain" of the victims of the 1993 attack and prevented federal agencies from doing their job.
It was treated as a local problem for the head of the NYC traffic to issue and collect for improper van parking.
Now watch the media ignore the obvious.
Ah yes .. truly KSM is the Hedgehog Of Terrorism.
So....what's the latest conspiracy theory today on this? What's the DUmmy take? "Abu Gitmo"? I can already hear the panties-torture outrage.
Actually, the REAL moonbats hate BOTH Dems and Pubbies.
So this won't affect the Prisonplanet.com et.al. devotees one bit.
The vast majority of 9/11 MIHOP/LIHOP nutjobs are extreme right or left wingers, so extreme that the traditional heros on both sides of the political spectrum are, ironically, hated by both. In fact, the only reason they can be qualified as extreme right or left is because, usually, the "extreme right" of the bunch believe 9/11 is "God's wrath", and a "sign of the endtimes", while the "extreme left" of the bunch believe it is an alien/Illuminati/any-other-conspiracy (not involving God). IOW, it's merely a belief in God that separates the two.
All of this makes the dim-wits at DU even more laughable: They aren't even in the majority when it comes to the MIHOP/LIHOP group. IOW, they can't even get that right!
The Imus disease and those like him is thinking they are so smart that this is all a Bush-Cheney trick and they can't be tricked.
Cuz they know it all.
You can't "deceive" them with the facts. So don't bother.
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