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.

[kabar]

Thanks for the ping. I have read Mylroie's books and believe that she makes a very compelling case for the Saddam connection to 9/11. If DNA can connect these dots, it would be devastating to the anti-war critics who call our invasion of Iraq a "war of choice" and consider the war in Afghanistan the "good" war.

[_Righteous_Dissident_]

It's not just DNA.

It's really a matter of simply pursuing an investigation based upon Mylroie's hypothesis. There is clearly available evidence to prove or disprove the stolen identity case. The Kuwaiti Ministry files for Khalid Mohammed and his nephews should be scrutinized for evidence of tampering like was found with Ramzi Yousef's (Abdul Basit's) paperwork. Latent fingerprints should be searched for from Khalid Mohammed's work from when he was in college in North Carolina and compared to the fingerprints of the actual Khalid Mohammed now in U.S. custody. Former teachers and fellow students should be queried to see if they think we are looking at the true KSM. And, yes, a DNA comparison can be carried out to see if this "family" is a family at all. Etc., etc., etc.

But, alas, none of this is being done nor will likely ever be done because the Right is afraid of being derided for pursuing "conspiracy theories" and the Left is, well, not interested in the truth in the first place if it could in any way benefit the Bush Administration and the cause for the Iraq War.

Yet there is no greater matter to be confronted by our intelligence community and governing authorities.

Dr. Mylroie came out with a new article in the American Spectator today I strongly suggest you read:

http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=11163

She is expanding her view about the state intelligence agencies behind terrorism against the West using the false false front of the "al Qaeda" islamic extremist network. She is starting to contend that Syrian, Pakistani and Arab Intelligence agencies are potentially involved. Yet, although I've tried, she's yet to make the leap of logic that, in fact, it is the puppet master of these intelligence agencies ultimately pulling the strings....i.e., the "former" KGB, which has taken over Russia....if anyone at the Pentagon or Langley has noticed:

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=13210

One would think Litvinenko's high profile death would have raised some eyebrows about what the Russian defector was warning the West about, i.e., that the "former"-KGB is alive and well in a new form and still actively engaged in covert terrorist operations against its own people and the West as well.

http://www.litvinenkomurder.org

Yet U.S. intelligence is utterly clueless about what is truly going on.

If only the American people could perceive the danger they are in...

[Marine_Uncle]

Thanks for the ping. Been away from things for a bit.