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Title: Pentagon Transcripts Show Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Confesses to Sept. 11 Attacks
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Associated Press
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.
i'm very amused !
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.
I think the person who provided that "information" was Ibn al-Shaykh al- Libi, under the threat of torture.
Right- my bad.
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.
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?
#43. To: Burkeman1 (#38)
I'm just now in the process of reading Macaulay's History of England. Not only was getting rid of the Habeas Corpus Act a major part of James II's program, but he was an awful lot like Bush fils in many other ways.
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#10. To: who knows what evil, Yertle Turtle, Arator, Tauzero, Burkeman1, tom007 (#1)
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#13. To: christine (#10)
#26. To: Burkeman1 (#13)
By the way- Khalid, after torture spewed out some crap about Iraq training AQ in bio weapons.
#29. To: aristeides (#26)
#35. To: Burkeman1 (#29)
#38. To: aristeides (#35)
but you were right about the unreliability of testimony induced by torture or the threat of torture.
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