Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Cops to 9/11 Attacks

This just broke on Fox a short time ago, and the first online report is here, with more to come.

New transcripts released by the Pentagon show that the man considered to be the chief mastermind behind the Sept. 11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, has admitted he is responsible for the terrorist attacks from "a to z".

Mohammed has also acknowledged being responsible for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, as well as other attempted terrorist attacks around the world in the years since.

The confessions come from a transcript of a hearing held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Saturday in which the Al Qaeda terrorist also acknowledged a plot to assassinate Bill Clinton while the former president was visiting the Philippines in 1994. The transcripts also show Mohammed admitted to plotting the October 2002 terrorist attack in Bali, Indonesia.

The admissions came during what was the first military hearing for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and 13 other major detainees since they were transferred last September from a secret CIA prison overseas into military custody at Guantanamo Bay.

The redacted report also noted anthrax attacks, dirty bombs, a Sears Towers plot, other plots in Los Angeles and Washington state, the assassination of Jimmy Carter, and the shoe bomb attempt involving Richard Reid.

UPDATE: More at LGF and Hot Air.

UPDATE II: An AP report has details on some other residents of Club Gitmo:

The Pentagon also released transcripts of the hearings of Abu Faraj al-Libi and Ramzi Binalshibh.

Binalshibh 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.

UPDATE III: Right Voices checks in. And sure enough, the crazy people question the timing (h/t Killgore Trout).

UPDATE IV: Unclassified transcript. See pp. 17-20 in particular.

UPDATE V: More insane people weigh in.

This guy is a Sunni and part of the Muslim Brotherhood out of Kuwait and Egypt aka Mujahideen. The mujahideen were significantly financed, armed, and trained by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) during the Carter and Reagan administrations, Saudi Arabia, the People's Republic of China, several European countries and Pakistan (during the Zia-ul-Haq military regime). The Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) was the interagent used in the majority of these activities to disguise the sources of support for the resistance in Afghanistan.

This is very bad news for the Bush/Cheney swine herd and the current leadership in Pakistan.

Are the 9/11 Conspiracy nuts not so insane after all?

By: getoffmedz on March 14, 2007 at 08:19pm
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