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 missed that. Who did he say it was?
--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!--
Nah. They'll just say it was ROVE(!!!) who trained KSM & plotted everything, then after the $#!t hit the fan, Bush decided to throw him overboard as a scapegoat. Baaaaaaa.
I know that I am. I don't see where the article refers to Iraq. '93 was Ramzi Yousef whose partner, Abdul Rahman Yasin was living in Baghdad before the bombing, but connections between him and Saddam's government are tenuous. I don't see how KSM's confession links Saddam to 9/11.
What, she's lying?
UTL on the transcript on the Pentagon website so far. Anybody got any other ideas?
They kicked him into a room with Helen and a large bed. The confessions came shortly afterward.
KSM admitted involvement in the '93 bombing (it's not in the article, but FNC has been reporting it).
Which was a foregone conclusion anyway, since he's Ramzi Yousef's "uncle".
That had to have been what made him confess!
Tough guy, huh? ;-)
"9/11 mastermind (Khalid Sheikh Mohammed) confesses in Guantanamo"
yes, definitely overestimate
Right, he trained some of the bombers, but what does that have to do with Saddam?
Maybe it's in the redacted part.
Actually the dems will want him transported to New York for a trial. Since the right of 3,000 Americans are not being used, they will demand he gets to use them.
Why would it be? It's in the administration's interest to release that sort of information.
:-)
Ohhhh! Bush's fault?
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