Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Confesses to 9-11 and More!
Picture credit WASHINGTON - 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.
"I was responsible for the 9/11 operation from A to Z," Mohammed said in a statement read during the session, which was held last Saturday...
Mohammed claimed responsibility for planning, financing and training others for plots ranging from the 1993 truck bombing of 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.
He said he was involved in planning the 2002 bombing of a Kenya beach resort frequented by Israelis and the failed missile attack on an Israeli passenger jet after it took off from Mombasa, Kenya. He also said he was responsible for the [10-12-02 Columbus Day] bombing of a nightclub in Bali, Indonesia. In 2002, 202 were killed when two Bali nightclubs were bombed...
Mohammed said he was responsible for planning 28 individual attacks. The comments were included in a 26-page transcript released by the Pentagon, which blacked out some of his remarks...
The transcripts also lay out evidence against Mohammed, saying that a computer seized during his capture included detailed information about the Sept. 11 plot...
Transcripts for the three detainees [Abu Faraj al-Libi and Ramzi Binalshibh] have been posted [at the bottom of the page] at: http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Combatant_Tribunals.html [Full text of AP article]
Here is the transcript of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's March 10, 2007 tribunal.
KSM aso confessed to the murder of the Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. Here is an account of the confession by Breitbart (3-15-07).
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