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Title: Pentagon Transcripts Show Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Confesses to Sept. 11 Attacks
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URL Source: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,258817,00.html
Published: Mar 14, 2007
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Post Date: 2007-03-14 20:59:45 by BeAChooser
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Pentagon Transcripts Show Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Confesses to Sept. 11 Attacks Wednesday, March 14, 2007 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 during the session, which was held last Saturday. 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. Mohammed also admitted to planning assassination attempts on former Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, as well as Pope John Paul II. In all, Mohammed said he was responsible for planning 28 individual attacks, including many that were never executed. The comments were included in a 26-page transcript released by the Pentagon, which blacked out some of his remarks. The Pentagon also released transcripts of the hearings of Abu Faraj al-Libi and Ramzi Binalshibh. Binalshibh, a Yemeni, 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 Qaeda or the Taliban. Mohammed's confession was read by a member of the U.S. military who is serving as his personal representative, and it also claimed he shared responsibility for three other attacks, including an assassination attempt against Musharraf. The transcripts also lay out evidence against Mohammed, saying that a computer seized during his capture included detailed information about the Sept. 11 plot — ranging from names and photos of the hijackers to photos of hijacker Mohammad Atta's pilot's license and even letters from Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. Al-Libi also made a statement through his personal representative largely claiming that the hearing process is unfair and that he will not attend unless it is corrected. "The detainee is in a lose-lose situation," his statement said. Binalshibh declined to participate in the process and the hearing was conducted in his absence. Military officials expected some of the 14 suspects not to participate. Legal experts have criticized the U.S. decision to bar independent observers from the hearings from the high-value targets. The Associated Press filed a letter of protest, arguing that it would be "an unconstitutional mistake to close the proceedings in their entirety." The military held 558 combatant status review tribunals between July 2004 and March 2005 and the panels concluded that all but 38 detainees were "enemy combatants" who should be held. Those 38 were eventually released from Guantanamo.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
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#1. To: BeAChooser (#0)
Confession time...how many here at 4um have AT LEAST ONE of this guy's films...oh, wait...never mind.
Looks like a guy who tried out for a porn film and was rejected as "hairier and uglier than Ron Jeremy."
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He looks like a drunk they picked up from the steets, maybe passed out on a bench. He doesn't look very happy about the situation either.
I think the last time we saw such confessions admitting to wide ranging conspiracies to do all manner of incredible evil deeds- was 1937- In Stalin's Russia. Only, Stalin- didn't hold the victims of his show trials for quite so long as the US has held this "mastermind" in a secret dungeon. Held, mind you, by a government that writes legal briefs defending torture during interrogations up to and including death as a result of such torture. He should be freed immediatly. No confession wrought from this man under the circumstances he was held in would be valid in a civilized country. Any trial of this man after what has been done to him- would be a farce. In addition to being freed- the men who had anything to do with his illegal detention, denial of basic rights, and torture should be tried and sent to prison for terms not a day less than he has been held thus far.
Indeed. After years of torture at 'gitmo', the US gov't could put this man in a pink tutu, wearing purple pumps and he would confess he was Osama's thursday night bitch...
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You, BAC, after years of torture in CIA rendition camps and Gitmo, would confess to being a 9-11 truther and a believer in Constitutional governance, but such a confession would be false (as well as inadmissable in a court of law). Yet one more milestone on our nation's rapid descent towards hell, eh BAC? Does this shameful news make you proud?
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So, if we got the guy, this means U.S. forces will withdraw from Afghanistan any day now, right?
O.K., maybe posting the army or the national guard along the U.S.-Mexico border isn't the answer. How about the U.S. Postal Service?
As it stands now- Hitler's treatment of the Reichstag fire defendents, who were tried within months of the crime, in regular German criminal courts, having suffered no torture or "abuse", with court proceedings broadcast live on German radio- really shines a light on the criminal and frankly- guilty- behavior of our government's actions in these "Trials"- no trial after 6 years of black out detention in secret dungeons, all formalities of law and rights wiped away with the completely non existent and made up out of thin air label of "Illegal Combatant", the trials they will have will be mostly closed to the public and held outside of civilian courts and the gubmint will release what they want when they want if anything at all about these, what I can't even really call "Trials", after suffering abuse and torture to the point where they are probably mentally defective at this point, and it goes without saying that these proceedings they are calling "trials" will not be broadcast live on TeeVee or Radio. If the fact that freaking Hitler's trials of the Reichstag fire defendents were more fair- not by a little either- but more fair by light years- than these disgusting and pathetic excuses for trials of the 9/11 suspects doesn't make you think- then nothing will.
Maybe he shot Lincoln as well. The USG has been so polluted by the Clintons and Bushes that why would any sentient observer believe this?? You tell me opportunistic lies two or three times, and the credibility problem is your's not mine.
i'm very amused !
I take comfort in the fact that this administration's criminality is overt and out front and in our faces. On the other hand, had Hitler's been as out in the open and in the daylight, would the German people have been as passively accepting of it (or, in BAC and his ilk's case, actively and enthusiastically embracing of it) as many Americans seem to be? Does this make us, as a nation, farther gone than the Germans of the 30's? I wonder...
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Let's put it this way . . . The Gestapo didn't advertize the fact that they were torturing people in secret dungeons. Germans didn't "debate" the merits of torture among themselves. It was assumed that such acts were not being committed and unthinkable to the Nazis to advertize such truths because Germans- would have been revolted. Now many Germans probably guessed that the Nazis were not the most humanitarian of guys and wouldn't hesitate to use torture- but it is one thing to suspect such behavior on the part of your government but it is quite another to have your government openly admit to such evil- as ours does- and have- many Americans embrace this evil whole heartedly or least think such an "issue" should be "Debated". Then again- Americans also pretty much accept such concepts as collective guilt for entire populations- that is ok to murder mass amounts of civilians if their leader is a bad guy- Hiroshima, German fire bombings . . . Etc etc. So to answer your question- we are farther gone than the Germans of the 1930's. Hell- most of the rank and file Reichwing of the GOP wants to see Mecca nuked and all moslems basically exterminated.
By the way- Khalid, after torture spewed out some crap about Iraq training AQ in bio weapons. This "intelligence" was used to help launch the war against Iraq. It was, of course, a lie.
We don't know that for certain. See the other 10 claimed lies I recently debunked on this forum.
I wonder why the Pentagon "blacked out" some of Sheikh Mohammed's remarks? It was a confession, right, so why the secrecy about some of his remarks? Was the Pentagon protecting our nation's "national security" with their black marker pens? HAHAHAHAHA. Righhhht...you can fool alot of the people alot of the time especially if you control the black marker pen.
I agree with you. Modern Reich-wing Bushbotism openly advocates the darkest then-mostly- secret Nazi impulses and mobilizes a mass movement of Faux-News- watching, Rush-Limbaugh-tomized, Weekly-Standardized and Nationally- Reviewed 'Merikans behind them. It is the dark bloody underside of this nation on a collective death march towards some hoped-for global apocolypse, like some zombified army of the living dead.
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LOLOLOL...i get the biggest kick out of you. BAC is the perfect straight man for you. :P
Correct. Nazis didn't sit around in polite company and casually advocate that entire populations be put to the sword as Reichwingers routinely discuss among themselves and quite openly. Nazis did that shit secretly because, well- it was assumed that Germans would be upset by such actions and they would lose support. In America- reichwinger rank and file types are the ones who think their government isn't killing enough people and call any restriction on the military killing anyone they want- to be waging a "PC war". Hell- Rush Limbaugh said we should be thankful that we have such "men" who are "tough enough" to adminster torture and do dark deeds. Himmler said the same thing in a recorded speech to a secret gathering of SS Death Head guards who worked at the camps- that though Germans would never know of their deeds- indeed- could never know- that the nation was lucky that such men of iron like them existed- capable of doing such acts of evil like murdering civilians in cold blood. The difference is that Himmler delivered those despicable remarks to a closed secret meeting of murderers. Rush delivered his contemptible remarks, live, to millions of Americans. And no one batted so much as an eyelash.
I'm not to sure using the term straight in the same sentence when it applies to Mr. Be-A-Jew-Loser is appropriate, Missy.
Thanks for reminding me that I left out "Rush-Limbaugh-tomized" from my list of adjectives for "'Merikans".
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Sounds like they shut him up, before he confessed to the Kennedy killings. I don't buy it.
I agree with you. a confession in guantanamo is not very credible. He confessed to the 1993 WTC bombing, but they already had court testimony from an undercover FBI agent that he is the one who urged the blind egyptian cleric's group to do it and then set the bomb for them. I mean you've got 2 confessions to the same crime. But BAC confessed to being a satanist. so I guess anything is possible.
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There are too many non-violent ways to break a person down, to the point that they will do anything for relief, with a particular fondness for a quick death. Add drugs, and it happens more quickly. Most people require a week at the most, for their mind and soul to be shattered.
BAC is a 9/11 truther. His arguments are merely playing the devil's advocate and show how utterly pathetic our government's lies about 9/11 are.
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I think the person who provided that "information" was Ibn al-Shaykh al- Libi, under the threat of torture.
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#2. To: BeAChooser (#0)
#3. To: BeAChooser (#0)
#4. To: BeAChooser (#0)
Mohammed also admitted to planning assassination attempts on former Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, as well as Pope John Paul II.
#5. To: BeAChooser (#0)
#6. To: BeAChooser (#0)
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#7. To: BeAChooser (#0)
#8. To: Tauzero (#7)
#9. To: BeAChooser (#0)
#10. To: who knows what evil, Yertle Turtle, Arator, Tauzero, Burkeman1, tom007 (#1)
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#11. To: Burkeman1 (#8)
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If the fact that freaking Hitler's trials of the Reichstag fire defendents were more fair- not by a little either- but more fair by light years- than these disgusting and pathetic excuses for trials of the 9/11 suspects doesn't make you think- then nothing will.
#12. To: Arator (#11)
Does this make us, as a nation, farther gone than the Germans of the 30's? I wonder...
#13. To: christine (#10)
#14. To: Burkeman1, ALL (#13)
By the way- Khalid, after torture spewed out some crap about Iraq training AQ in bio weapons. This "intelligence" was used to help launch the war against Iraq. It was, of course, a lie.
#15. To: BeAChooser, Burkeman1, robin, leveller (#0)
The comments were included in a 26-page transcript released by the Pentagon, which blacked out some of his remarks.
#16. To: Burkeman1 (#12)
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So to answer your question- we are farther gone than the Germans of the 1930's. Hell- most of the rank and file Reichwing of the GOP wants to see Mecca nuked and all moslems basically exterminated.
#17. To: scrapper2, BeAChooser (#15)
HAHAHAHAHA. Righhhht...you can fool alot of the people alot of the time especially if you control the black marker pen.
#18. To: Arator (#16)
#19. To: christine (#17)
BAC is the perfect straight man for you.
#20. To: Burkeman1 (#18)
Rush delivered his contemptible remarks, live, to millions of Americans. And no one batted so much as an eyelash.
#21. To: beachooser, Christine, Brian S, Honway, Robin, Aristeides, Red Jones, Diana, Kamala, All (#0)
#22. To: SKYDRIFTER, BeAChooser (#21)
I don't buy it.
#23. To: Red Jones (#22)
#24. To: Arator (#6)
You, BAC, after years of torture in CIA rendition camps and Gitmo, would confess to being a 9-11 truther and a believer in Constitutional governance, but such a confession would be false (as well as inadmissable in a court of law).
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#25. To: BeAChooser (#0)
I trained them to fly into the Pentagon. ..burp..virgins for everybody.
#26. To: Burkeman1 (#13)
By the way- Khalid, after torture spewed out some crap about Iraq training AQ in bio weapons.
#27. To: BeAChooser (#14)
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#28. To: BeAChooser (#0)
A few years back, someone snuck in my back door and stole a carton of cigs and a bottle of pretty decent Scotch. I thought it was one of the quasi-homeless guys from the SRO up the street, but now I wonder if this guy was involved. Think the CIA would help me out on this?
#29. To: aristeides (#26)
Right- my bad.
#30. To: Mekons4 (#28)
We could just "interrogate" all the ChickenHawks and see what they cough up.
A few years back, someone snuck in my back door and stole a carton of cigs and a bottle of pretty decent Scotch. I thought it was one of the quasi-homeless guys from the SRO up the street, but now I wonder if this guy was involved. Think the CIA would help me out on this?
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#31. To: Burkeman1 (#18)
In addition to the terrorist attacks and Pearl's death, Muhammed claimed responsibility for at least 30 other al-Qaida attacks or plots. They ranged 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. "I was responsible for the 9/11 operation, from A to Z," an interpreter read from Muhammad's statement to the Combatant Status Review Tribunal on March 10 in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. In the statement he pledged his allegiance to Osama bin Laden and finished with an admission to trying to destroy an American oil company in Indonesia owned by former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. He offered a confession to "managing and following up on the Cell for the Production of Biological Weapons, such as anthrax and others, and following up on Dirty Bomb Operations on American soil." There's more...
Wow, what a powerful guy...
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#32. To: angle (#31)
Busy bee wasn't he? He must have been a wizard at time management to take on all those projects. And I thought the idiotic charges against the Stalin show trial victims were fantastic. Geesh . . . this is just pathetic.
#33. To: angle (#31)
Did he train the Unibomber too?
#34. To: Burkeman1 (#33)
Anyone ask him if he knows where Hoffa's buried?
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#35. To: Burkeman1 (#29)
You may have been wrong about the identity of the individual, but you were right about the unreliability of testimony induced by torture or the threat of torture.
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#36. To: historian1944 (#34)
I think I remember seeing a photo of him outside the US embassey in Saigon in 1975. He orchestrated the fall!
#37. To: Burkeman1 (#32)
All this from a cave in Afghanistan?
"First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Then they fight you. Then you win." --Mahatma K. Gandhi
#38. To: aristeides (#35)
Why does this have to even be pointed out? This is a bedrock foundation that all western criminal law rests upon. It's a concept about what? 500 years old now? It is pretty pathetic when one reads Solzhenitsyn's "Gulag Archipelago" and the lists of tortures he mentions used by the NKVD and KGB in interrogations differ not at all from what US "legal scholars" are trying to tell us is merely "enhanced interrogations" or- use the more benign term, "abuse." Ever see the movie "Stalag 17"? In it, the American POW's are constantly citing the Geneva Convention- which the Germans generally follow! Except one time- when they make an airmen stay awake until he confesses to an act of sabotage. In that quaint movie- the act of forcing him to stay awake was seen by an audience in 1945 as a horrible breach of human rights. But nowadays- we have Reichwinger talk show hosts call such procedures- "Frat pranks." The only question is how much more barbaric and degenerate can we become as a nation at this point?
but you were right about the unreliability of testimony induced by torture or the threat of torture.
#39. To: Burkeman1 (#32)
And I thought the idiotic charges against the Stalin show trial victims were fantastic. Geesh . . . this is just pathetic. I'm starting to think this release is an act of rebellion by someone. The Feds have total authority in these cases to redact anything they want. You don't release something this preposterous if credibility is your goal.
Busy bee wasn't he? He must have been a wizard at time management to take on all those projects.
#40. To: angle (#37)
Well yes- you remember the power point graphics of highly developed cave complexes in Tora Bora that OBL and his minions were hiding out in don't you? Before the invasion? Splashed all over our media were these graphics of sophisticated cave bunkers- with hydrolic lifts, air conditioning and heat ducts, electricity, computer rooms, temerature controlled ammo storage dumps, communication centers, labs for making bio and chem weapons, barracks with showers and running water, cafeterias . . . hell- even places to park their tanks! Remember those caves? Time Magazine did a big spread on them. The CIA said they were there! Fox News ran the graphics ad naseum. And what did they find when they got to Tora Bora? Well- they found some caves alright. I think one of them even had a string of light bulbs that ran down its 30 meter length attacked to a 150 dollar gas powered generator that ran outside the entrance. The other amenities? Ahem, nope. Seems those "sophisticated cave complexes"- like the WMD and the Rape Rooms and the Plastic Shredders, and the million bodies in mass graves- never existed either.
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