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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.
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#7. To: BeAChooser (#0)
So, if we got the guy, this means U.S. forces will withdraw from Afghanistan any day now, right?
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
Funny, I was getting that feeling as well. As these "confessions" don't jive with other whopper stories the feds have told.
#45. To: Burkeman1 (#41)
Khalid Sheihk Mohammed wasn't the guy who claimed to be Buckwheat from Our Gang, but he has admitted to being the one who put the other guy up to it.
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#8. To: Tauzero (#7)
#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...
#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.
#18. To: Arator (#16)
#31. To: Burkeman1 (#18)
Wow, what a powerful guy...
#32. To: angle (#31)
#39. To: Burkeman1 (#32)
Busy bee wasn't he? He must have been a wizard at time management to take on all those projects.
#41. To: SmokinOPs (#39)
I'm starting to think this release is an act of rebellion by someone.
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