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.
What did they use to crack him..red hot chili peppers, Brittney what was it? Maybe listening to Gore.....
MSM investigative reporters will have to come forward quickly with rumors and unnamed sources to "prove" that poor Khalid was coerced, even tortured, into these admissions.
This presents a real dilemna for the moonbats.
Chief mastermind behind the Sept. 11 attacks: moonbats won't care.
The 1993 World Trade Center bombing: moonbats won't care.
Plotting the October 2002 terrorist attack in Bali, Indonesia: moonbats won't care.
A plot to assassinate uber-lord-of-moonbats Bill Clinton: Uh oh. He plotted to off a Democrat. There's some real trouble! They either have to say they don't care about Clintoon, or they have to acknowledge that the evil GW Bush might have actually caught a real honest-to-goodness terrorist! Prepare for moonbat heads to explode!
Wait, what am I saying? They'll just say he was tortured to give these confessions and therefore they aren't credible. Just watch, this is SO predictable...
BTW, for the record, even if that was the ONLY thing this terrorist tried to do, I'd say fry him. You do NOT attempt to assassinate a US President, no matter whom that may be. Even a President I loathed and still loath.
Yup that dude LMAO
This is huge.
Take note.
The 1993 bombing did involve the Iraqi government.
This means that Al Qaeda and Iraq did work together for the 1993 and 2001 WTC attacks.
Am I missing something here?
Maybe they redacted all the sobbing and gurgling noises from the waterboard treatment.
Also said he was involved in plotting anthrax attacks, according to Fox.
I wonder if he gave up Saddam. I wonder if we'll ever know.
Those wonderful folks at Gitmo deserve our thanks.
I think I am. Do tell.
Fox also reported he planned to assassinate our ex-Presidents. Even Carter.
I don't know about KSM, but after five minutes of Jack Johnson at an even reasonable decibel level, I'd be singing like a canary.
You aren't saying that Bush has no back bone, are you? I thought he was just missing his boy's.
If we had a real leader, he would have gotten congress on board with a plan for dealing with captured terrorists before he started the prison at Gitmo.
You grossly underestimate conspiracy theorists.
Sotra shoots holes in the Dimocrap's "there was no connection between 9/11 and Iraq". Of course, the liberal MSM will not report this and the Dims will ignore that piece of information while they continue to attack President Bush.
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