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9/11 mastermind (Khalid Sheikh Mohammed) confesses in Guantanamo
Yahoo News ^ | 3/14/07 | LOLITA C. BALDOR, Associated Press Writer

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.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 911; democrat; frwn; gitmo; hellawaits; iran; iraq; islam; jihad; khalidsheikmohammed; liberalhero; mohamhead; mohammed; muhammadsminions; rats; ronjeremy; rop; waronterror; wot
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To: BJClinton

Here's their LBN: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2767463


61 posted on 03/14/2007 5:10:55 PM PDT by BJClinton (Elect John Edwards, it's about time we had a female president.)
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To: edcoil
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

I'm fine with that. He'll get a fair trial before we hang him.

62 posted on 03/14/2007 5:12:06 PM PDT by Zeroisanumber (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: Chi-townChief

Rove, you magnificent bastard!


63 posted on 03/14/2007 5:12:12 PM PDT by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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To: Marine_Uncle
They kicked him into a room with Helen and a large bed. The confessions came shortly afterward.

Worst. They put Helen's underwear over his head...

64 posted on 03/14/2007 5:12:41 PM PDT by John123 (Bill barely mentions Hillary in his memoirs... I will now light myself on fire)
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To: Chi-townChief

Anybody have a link to the transcript yet?


65 posted on 03/14/2007 5:16:07 PM PDT by bw17
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To: Zeroisanumber

The bomb maker, Yasin, came to the US on an Iraqi passport, bombed the World Trade Center, and fled to Baghdad, where he lived freely for 10 years. Documents recovered since the fall of Baghdad show that Yasin was in fact on Saddam's payroll for the 10 years he lived there.

It has everything to do with Saddam.


66 posted on 03/14/2007 5:16:36 PM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Hugo in a Pantsuit... I know, I know... it's serious.)
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To: Chi-townChief

I did a quick survey of the "mainstream media" and how they are carrying this on the web sites:

ABC: Breaking NewsBreaking News U.S. MILITARY RELEASES A TRANSCRIPT OF A HEARING IN WHICH KHALID SHEIKH MOHAMMED CONFESSES TO THE SEPT. 11 ATTACKS

CBS: Transcript: Alleged 9/11 Plotter Confesses

CNN: Transcript: Gitmo detainee confesses to 9/11 (not the headline story)

MSNBC: Transcript: 9/11 leader confesses (Not the headline story)

FNC: Terror Confession: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed admits planning 9/11, assassination attempts on Carter, Clinton, Pope

Just wanted to get a quick capture of how the web sites were telling this breaking story. Both CNN and MSNBC have it sidelined, ABC, CBS, and FNC have it as their headline story with big pic of the terrorist. However, CBS uses the word "alleged".


67 posted on 03/14/2007 5:17:23 PM PDT by Laverne
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To: Vision
If we didn't have a 'real leader' KSM wouldn't be at GITMO.

Unless, of course, you think YOU would do a better job at capturing and killing terrorists. LOL!

(You guys make me laugh......)

68 posted on 03/14/2007 5:17:56 PM PDT by ohioWfan (PRAY for our President and our troops!!)
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
I'd like to see those documents if you can provide a link either to them or to a news report on them.

Thanks.

69 posted on 03/14/2007 5:18:43 PM PDT by Zeroisanumber (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: Chi-townChief

This is the guy Congressman Moran (Moron) wants to let out on bail and have stay in the United States.


70 posted on 03/14/2007 5:18:56 PM PDT by sgtbono2002 (I will forgive Jane Fonda, when the Jews forgive Hitler.)
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

Also, just a quick correction: Yasin came to the US on a US passport. He was born in Bloomington, Indiana and used that fact to obtain a passport from the US embassy in Amman, Jordan.


71 posted on 03/14/2007 5:21:42 PM PDT by Zeroisanumber (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: Chi-townChief
I wonder if this is some sort of scheme to get us to think Bin Laden had nothing to do with any of these events, so we would back off from hunting him down (since we're now seeming to close in on him).

I'm a little suspicious about this sudden revelation.

72 posted on 03/14/2007 5:22:26 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: Lucky9teen

"So.....excuse me for asking a silly question, but what about Bin Laden? "

Khalid was the COO. Osama is still the CEO/CFO if he's among the living. Osama pointed him in our direction and Khalid laid out the plan.


73 posted on 03/14/2007 5:24:25 PM PDT by Kirkwood
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To: Chi-townChief

Bad news for all the good little Democrats who think the Bush Administration did it.


74 posted on 03/14/2007 5:24:48 PM PDT by popdonnelly ([Democrats] are jubilant at our disasters and are cast down when the rebels are defeated -Sept. 1862)
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To: svcw
What did they use to crack him..red hot chili peppers, Brittney what was it? Maybe listening to Gore.....

These were indeed torturous but it was Hillary Rodham O'Hara's "I don't feel no ways tired...I've come too far from where I started from..." that got him to spill his guts.
75 posted on 03/14/2007 5:24:59 PM PDT by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: Lucky9teen
And does this mean we actually have captured the guy behind 9/11 then, so the dems can stfu now?

He was captured 4 years ago.

76 posted on 03/14/2007 5:25:51 PM PDT by LdSentinal
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To: Laverne

Thanks, Laverne. Ace reporting.


77 posted on 03/14/2007 5:26:41 PM PDT by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: Zeroisanumber

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

Maybe. But timing is everything. There may be some good reasons to hold back on all that Khalid said.


78 posted on 03/14/2007 5:26:53 PM PDT by Kirkwood
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To: piytar

"This presents a real dilemna for the moonbats."

That assumes moonbats are thoughtful enough to realize the dilemma. Cindy Sheehan, for example, never will.


79 posted on 03/14/2007 5:27:07 PM PDT by popdonnelly ([Democrats] are jubilant at our disasters and are cast down when the rebels are defeated -Sept. 1862)
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To: svcw

They were going to put Cindy Sheehan in bed with him, you know how the Mussies feel about pigs.


80 posted on 03/14/2007 5:28:27 PM PDT by U S Army EOD (Support your local EOD Detachment)
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