how can anyone not like this sweetheart of a man (gag)
Posted on 03/15/2007 4:32:29 AM PDT by shrinkermd
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, long said to be the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, confessed to them at a military hearing held in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, on Saturday, according to a transcript released by the Pentagon yesterday. He also acknowledged full or partial responsibility for more than 30 other terror attacks or plots.
“I was responsible for the 9/11 operation, from A to Z,” he said.
In a rambling statement, Mr. Mohammed, a chief aide to Osama bin Laden, said his actions were part of a military campaign. “I’m not happy that 3,000 been killed in America,” he said in broken English. “I feel sorry even. I don’t like to kill children and the kids.” [Excerpts, Page A23.]
He added, “The language of war is victims.”
Though American officials had linked Mr. Mohammed to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and to several others, his confession was the first time he spelled out in his own words a panoply of global terror activities, ranging from plans to bomb landmarks in New York City and London to assassination plots against former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton and Pope John Paul II. Some of the plots he claimed to plan, including the attempt on Mr. Carter, had not previously been publicly disclosed.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
That we actually have a principal person from 911. Note the below quote from Wikipedia.
"...Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (Arabic: خالد شيخ محمد; also transliterated as Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, Khalid Shaikh Mohammad, et al., and also known by as many as twenty-seven aliases[1] (b. March 1, 1964, or April 14, 1965) is a prisoner in U.S. custody for acts of terrorism, including mass murder.
In March 2007, at a Guantánamo Bay hearing, Mohammed confessed to masterminding the September 11th terrorist attacks, the Richard Reid shoe bombing attempt to blow up an airliner over the Atlantic Ocean, the Bali nightclub bombing in Indonesia, the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and other attacks that were foiled.[2]
Formerly a Kuwaiti member of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda organization, according to the 9/11 Commission Report he was "the principal architect of the 9/11 attacks." He is also thought to have had a role in many of the most significant terrorist plots over the last twenty years, including the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the Operation Bojinka plot, an aborted 2002 attack on Los Angeles' U.S. Bank Tower, the Bali nightclub bombings, the failed bombing of American Airlines Flight 63, and the murder of Daniel Pearl. He was captured in Rawalpindi, Pakistan on March 1, 2003 by the Pakistani ISI, possibly in a joint action with agents of the American Federal Bureau of Investigation, and has been in U.S. custody since that time.
Mohammed is thought to have been born in the Baluchistan region of Pakistan, and spent some of his formative years in Kuwait. He joined the Muslim Brotherhood at age 16 and returned to Pakistan soon after, studied in the United States for several years, and left for Afghanistan in the 1980s where he and his brothers fought against the Soviet Union during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. He is thought to have commenced anti-American terrorist operations in the early 1990s.
Until his capture in Pakistan in 2003, he was an important figure in Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda organization, where he came to head the group's propaganda operations sometime around 1999. He was indicted on terrorism charges in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in January 1996 and was subsequently placed on the October 10, 2001 initial list of the FBI's twenty-two Most Wanted Terrorists. In September 2006, the U.S. government announced it had moved Mohammed from a secret prison to the facility at Guantánamo Bay.[3]
We knew MSM would greet this confession with great skeptism, and they prove us correct. They will never admit that we are winning the WOT by capturing these terrorists and putting them on trial. Just like they will never admit any successes in Iraq.
They truly make me ill.
The latest Zogby poll shows that most americans believe MSM is biased to the left -- a poll you will never see discussed in the NYTimes or on any of the propaganda stations: cnnnbccbsmsnbcabcfnc.
Last evening, CBS.com headlined the confession as from the "alleged" terrorist. I think they have subsequently changed that, but its yet again proof of their inability to report a success.
Alleged Architect Of 9/11 Confesses To Many Attacks
By Josh White Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, March 15, 2007; A01
Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, confessed at a Guantanamo Bay military hearing that he planned and funded that al-Qaeda operation and said he was involved in more than two dozen other terrorist acts around the world, according to documents released by the Pentagon yesterday.
In a rambling statement delivered Saturday to a closed-door military tribunal, Mohammed declared himself an enemy of the United States and claimed some responsibility for many of the major terrorist attacks on U.S. and allied targets over more than a decade. He said that he is at war with the United States and that the deaths of innocent people are an unfortunate consequence of that conflict.
"I was responsible for the 9/11 operation, from A to Z," Mohammed told a panel of military officers through a personal representative, who read off a list of 31 terrorist acts that were either carried out or planned but not executed. According to transcripts released by Defense Department officials last night, Mohammed later spoke in broken English and Arabic, saying, "For sure, I'm American enemies."
Mohammed took responsibility for the attacks on New York and Washington in an interrogation detailed in the Sept. 11 commission's report. But his appearance before the tribunal at Guantanamo Bay marked the first time since his March 2003 arrest that he was allowed to make an extended statement that was not delivered to interrogators.
His capture was followed by years of detention in secret CIA facilities, where he was held without any contact with the outside world...
Like the Oklahoma city bomber..... the Sheik must be executed forthwith.
I'll tell you what else no one is bringing up. The fact that the bombmaker of the 93 World Trade Center attack was an Iraqi named Abdul Rahman Yasin, Yasin fled to Iraq after the attack and lived under Saddam's protection complete with pay.
So in short we have Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (Al Qeada operative) planning the bombing. Abdul Rahman Yasin (Iraqi national) building the bomb. Saddam Hussein giving Yasin sanctuary, yet were told to believe there were no Al Qeada and Saddam connections.
how can anyone not like this sweetheart of a man (gag)
are you so sure we got all the bombers of the OKC Murrah??? like the middle easterns seen running from the area right before the blast....
KSM's confession included planning the 1993 WTC bombing - this tidbit is buried in MSM reporting. This would make the 1993 WTC bombing al Qaeda's first attack on American soil. Typically for this group, they returned in 2001 to finish what they failed to do in 1993.
It would also direct questions to Bill Clinton's response (and Janet Renos investigation), including Clinton's failure to even visit the attack site in the aftermath. Admittedly there wasn't much chance for photo ops and crocodile tears since it wasnt an election year.
Will KSM link al Qaeda to Oklahoma City? Will the press "leak" it if he did? Stay tuned.
Ramzi Yousef (1993 WTC) and Terry Nichols crossed paths (OKC) in the Phillipines. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (9/11) was Yousef's uncle. It is interesting to note that Yousef entered the United States on an Iraqi passport and had been known among the New York fundamentalists as "Rashid, the Iraqi". Another name that could be thrown into the mix is Abdul Rahman Yasin, a U.S. citizen who moved to Iraq in the 1960's and returned to the U.S. in 1992. After the 1993 WTC bombing, Yasin fled to Iraq and was given monthly salary and housing by Saddam Hussein's regime.
...are you so sure we got all the bombers of the OKC Murrah???....
I did not imply any such notion. We got one and he was executed forthwith.
we got at least 2 and they only offed 1.
Hey.... can't you read? Get off my back.
We all know what happened. Lectures from the peanut gallery aren't necessary.
I can read...and you said we got 1. the point I was making was that we really didnt solve the whole problem and there is still an issue with the Murrah case.
Your right we did the right thing and killed the s.o.b.. No lecture intended....
Get a rope.
I'm not sure what other kind of intel we can squeeze out of this turd at this point, so the logical thing to do would be to kill him. Slowly and painfully.
Another article that links Saddam Hussein to terrorism was written by Stephen Hayes:
http://weeklystandard.com/Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=11990&R=EC0D16975
Rope doesn't cover it. Get a Pear of Anguish. Look it up on wiki if you need to.
If only the NY Slimes were as skeptical about the Valarie Plame's CIA status, Joe Wilson's honesty, Scooter Libby's guilt, Dick Cheney's involvement in the Plame case, Richard Armitage's lack of involvement in the Plame case, Colin Powell's lack of involvement in the Plame case, Bill Clinton's U.S. attorney firings, ... sigh ... should I go on?
Oh my, that would be martyrdom!
I suggest we keep KSM alive for a long long time and send him regular news about how his son has been adopted and is being raised as a Jew or a Christian.
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