the alway effervescent Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in all his glory!
Posted on 03/15/2007 8:39:06 AM PDT by Sax
WASHINGTON -- Khalid Sheikh Mohammed confessed to cutting off the head of American journalist Daniel Pearl, as well as the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, according to a revised transcript of a statement released by the U.S. military.
"I decapitated with my blessed right hand the head of the American Jew, Daniel Pearl, in the city of Karachi, Pakistan," Mohammed is quoted as saying in a transcript of a military hearing at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, that was released Thursday by the Pentagon.
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."
He also named four other skyscrapers that were supposed to be destroyed in a "second wave" of attacks after Sept. 11. They were the Library Tower in Los Angeles, the Sears Tower in Chicago, the Plaza Bank in Seattle and the Empire State Building in New York City.
Mohammed also said he plotted attacks that were never carried out against then-President Bill Clinton, former President Jimmy Carter and the late Pope John Paul II.
"I shared responsibility for the assassination attempt against Pope John Paul II while he was visiting the Philippines," Muhammad also said in the transcript.
Muhammad's lengthy closing oral statement began with a pledge to Allah in Arabic followed by a refusal to take an oath as part of the tribunal. He explained that he was not lying, but that his religious beliefs prevented him taking the oath and thereby accepting, at least in part, American law and its constitution.
Muhammad went on to say that he was not trying to make himself out to be a hero, but an enemy of America.
He drew a comparison between al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and George Washington, both fighting for independence, and said that the term terrorist is "deceiving." He said that during the Revolutionary War, Washington would have been considered a terrorist by the British.
Muhammad said he did not like to kill people, especially children.
"I don't like to kill people. I feel very sorry they been killed kids in 9/11," Muhammad said in broken English. But, he said, their deaths are part of the "language" of war.
He closed by stating that war is part of life and that it will never stop.
Some information on the transcripts was blacked out.
He should get the Pig Suit.
I'd start by removing his "blessed right hand" and feeding it to wild boars while he watched.
(But that's just me.)
At this point, the only issue he has not solved for us is where he put Hoffa's body.
Has he confessed to more than he could have possibly done?
Hmmmm.... TWA 800? John Doe #2 from Oklahoma City?
I'd love to see what was redacted.
Now why would he want to kill the two presidents who were the most friendly to him, his minions, his ilk and US Republic haters around the globe?
No...he was the chief planner. Think of him as the central clearinghouse....people came to him with ideas....he would pass or approve those operations.
Look up the plane crash of an Anerican Airlines flight on Nov 12 2001.
See if you remember.
Did he also confess to the Kennedy assassination? Masterminding the Kahane assassination? The Lincoln assassination?
Did he also confess to the Kennedy assassination? Masterminding the Kahane assassination? The Lincoln assassination?
Hmmm, maybe I am overracting to a pig that is responsible for killing many thousands of innocents?
Al Qaeda and the DBM sharing talking points again...
Coat his eyelids with honey.
Suspend the cage from the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge over the entrance to Upper New York Bay.
Leave it there for a thousand years, as a sign and a warning.
the alway effervescent Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in all his glory!
"He closed by stating that war is part of life and that it will never stop"
HELLO! RATS!!
I'd love to see what was redacted.
It could also be for operations that were stopped by information sources that are still active -- KSM wouldn't necessarily know which of his plans succeeded & which did not (since his arrest, I mean).
the alway effervescent Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in all his glory!
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