National Security Correspondent Leigh Sales has been trawling through the transcript of his confession and she joins us now.
So Leigh, first just remind us just who is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and what evidence does the US have against him?
LEIGH SALES: He was the number three operative in al-Qaeda up until the time of his capture in Pakistan in 2003.
He had the sort of background that you associate with these very militant extremist terrorists. Raised in a religious household, he went to Afghanistan to fight in the anti-Soviet jihad, which is where he met bin Laden, and then he became, according to the United States investigators, intimately involved in al-Qaeda's operations and planning.
He was captured in 2003 and then held in a CIA ghost prison, which was one of the prisons that were secretly set up around the world for interrogations. And then late last year, the United States moved 14 of their top-level terrorism suspects to Guantanamo Bay.
Now the evidence that the United States has against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed comes from a couple of sources. It's partly from the testimony of other detainees or people who've been arrested in other missions.
Also when he was arrested in 2003 in Pakistan, police and military went through that house where he was staying and they seized a lot of material including several computers which had huge amounts of detail about the 9/11 attacks - photographs of the hijackers, information about how the mission would be executed. So they had a lot of evidence on him from that.
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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Confesses To September 11th Attacks
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The sad part is although he isn't saying anything significant he didn't say before his capture, no one will believe him because of the US's insistance on using torture. We don't know he was or wasn't tortured, so we can't believe a word of it. Too bad, because it could answer so many questions if this were reliable information.<p>---<br>The preceding comment deals with mature subject matter, however immaturely presented. Viewer discretion is advised.<br />
Despite the news headlines screaming he masterminded Sept 11, I see no direct quote anywhere that states, 'I masterminded Sept 11' or something similar. He admits the known attacks other than Sept 11, but not the Big One, the biggest, most audacious, most organized, most planned attack in terrorist history, ensuring his place in the Terrorist Hall of Fame, an attack that makes all other terrorist attacks in history look like firecrackers. An attack that does not match any other attack in history, demonstrating a level of coordination, planning, and execution that had all the hallmarks of a covert military op, NOT a terrorist attack.
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“The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous, the essential act of warfare is the destruction of the produce of human labour”
Now, where's the in-depth follow-up? Can we read his transcripts? What torture techniques were being used when he uttered those words to make it stop?
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“The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous, the essential act of warfare is the destruction of the produce of human labour”
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'When you have eliminated the impossible, what ever remains, however improbable, must be the truth'.
- Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes.
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"13. Finally, how did you manage to get these guys aboard their respective aircraft?
Were they hideaways aboard airport 'honeywagons' who then crawled up the crap hoses into the aircraft toilets?
Look, none of your guys had an airline reservation; not one of them had a ticket; not one presented his ID to airline counter staff; not one was assigned a seat; not one was issued a boarding pass - but they all managed to board their airplanes!
Not one of their names appeared on a single flight manifest!
Khalid, ol' man, you truly are a master evildoer, a furtive genius whose shenanigans make 007 look like a kindergartener.
I salute you. "
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"And God said: 'Let there be Satan, so people don't blame everything on me. And let there be lawyers, so people don't blame everything on Satan."
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Go back to sleep, you can trust a press release from a heavily redacted secret military tribunal of a tortured detainee conducted by individuals representative of an oligarchy whose every deception, gross violation of U.S. law, and act of imperial bloodletting over the last six years rests on maintaining the orthodoxy of the official 9/11 myth
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from prision planet
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"And God said: 'Let there be Satan, so people don't blame everything on me. And let there be lawyers, so people don't blame everything on Satan."
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Guantanamo inmate claims beheading of Daniel Pearl <br />
By Andrew Buncombe in Washington <br />
Published: 16 March 2007 <br />
Among more than 30 attacks and plots allegedly confessed to by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed - the man long accused of organising the September 11 hijackings - was the beheading of journalist Daniel Pearl. <br />
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It emerged yesterday that the Pentagon had held back a portion of a 26-page transcript of a legal hearing at Guantanamo Bay in which Mohammed claimed he had personally murdered the Wall Street Journal reporter in 2002. The Pentagon said it had done so in order to have time to warn the journalist's family.<br />
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In the transcript, Mohammed told the tribunal: "I decapitated with my blessed right hand the head of the American Jew Daniel Pearl in the city of Karachi, Pakistan. For those who would like to confirm, there are pictures of me on the internet holding his head."<br />
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And tonights 11:00 pm news is reporting this with a straight face<br />
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war, most of whom have faded into "you can't see me", "That wasn't me that said
that" land, tortured and see how long it takes for the real terrorists to confess to
all these confessions. Maybe we'd find out the truth about a few other unsolved
mysteries as well.
P.S. That's not to say I would exclude all the frontroom boys in that torture
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"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." Friedrich Nietzsche
I can imagine, sadly enough, Bush and Cheney and others of their demonic ilk laughing at the gullibility of the people who get all their information from the commercial media.
The saddest part of all is that, more and more, people seem to be deciding that critical thinking is too difficult and then just choose to mindlessly accept the trash being fed to them.
At this rate, I'm not sure I really want to live to reach 100 years of age.
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'When you have eliminated the impossible, what ever remains, however improbable, must be the truth'.
- Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes.
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'When you have eliminated the impossible, what ever remains, however improbable, must be the truth'.
- Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes.
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Link: <a href="http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1599861,00.html">http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1599861,00.html</a><br />
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Link: <a href="http://www.nysun.com/pf.php?id=50639">http://www.nysun.com/pf.php?id=50639</a><br />
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Link: <a href="http://infowars.com/articles/sept11/ksm_confessed_attacking_bank_founded_after_his_arrest.htm">http://infowars.com/articles/sept11/ksm_confessed_attacking_bank_founded_after_his_arrest.htm</a><br />
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Link: <a href="http://infowars.com/articles/sept11/ksm_ultimate_patsy_confesses.htm">http://infowars.com/articles/sept11/ksm_ultimate_patsy_confesses.htm</a>
John, no wait ... Robert or er, both .... That's it, both yeah, both.