From a government with ZERO credibility...

I do not believe this man was responsible for the WTC and Pentagon attacks on 9/11. He may have been planning the other atttacks. I am curious as to how well he speaks and underestands english.

Read the transcript.

1. KSM was never put under oath, and the tribunal President even acknowledges this fact.

2. He spoke often in the hearing, yet he had someone ELSE read off the statement of crimes he was supposedly confessing to.

3. When KSM did speak early on in the hearing, he DENIED charges against him!

I don't understand what is going on here. Why is everything classified?? And why is KSM denying everything early in the hearing, only to allow someone else to read his 'confession' for him?

It's hard to believe this, under the circumstances. A person would agree to anything to stop the torture.

I'm sure he shot J.R. Ewing, too.

I thought we had evolved beyond torturing "witches" to force them to confess in THIS country.

Now if only Bush would assume responsibility for his agression we could demonstrate to the world how America is a fair and just country. Not fair we lock up only the criminal acts performed by one side here.

That's it??
It was this guy all along?
And for how many years we've been led to believe it was Osama and a legion of other AQ "second in commands"??
Oh! And we get only parts of his testimony because things he said, even about non-national security matters such as possible torture and pretty much anything that showed less than a glowing nobility on the part of the hypocracy of western alliance was redacted?
Is this what justice has become in America?
Then the "terrorists" have surely won, my friends.

I hope this is true. This man spent so much time being interrogated; it’s likely he’d say anything. There’s been so many untruths, so much scandal; I have no idea what to believe anymore.

Sounds legimate to me. Ask him if he had anything to do with the Lincoln assassination. I'll bet he confesses to starting the Korean war, too. Sheesh!

Actually, Kalid Sheikh Mohammed's nephew Ramzi Yousef, who's been in US prison since the mid-90's, planned the first WTC attack in '93, not KSM.

KSM has been under indictment in this country since the late 90's for terrorist activities.

So, one must ask oneself, what kind of imbeciles ran this country's anti-terrorism and counterintelligence operations when they knew about this guy and his nephew for all those years?

Thanks GOD for helping the authority to capture Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. GOD created those people to live and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed or any al Qaeda terrorist don't have the right to destroy those human beings. I hope and Pray that Osama Bin laden and all Al Qaeda member will capture soon. You Terrorist people you did not own this Earth and if you kill thousands still your life is miserable and you have to pay for that. why don't you live peacefully, be happy and be contented of what's GOD given you?
PEACE ON EARTH

Wow! Did he also admit to killing Roger Rabbit? Isn't it breathtaking, the things a man will confess to if enough torture is used? Torturer in chief, we Dems were wrong. The decider just knew that torture would work eventually. Just have to get rid of those pesky Geneva Conventions. International laws be damned, raping children in front of their parents and waterboarding produce results! Thank you, Chimp. We can now hold up our heads among the worlds worst war criminals with pride at our accomplishments. Way to go, W(orst). The new American Way:creating more enemies than we can kill.

Greetings from Germany(old europe)

By the way he also confessed that he is responsible for the greenhouse effect.

Wake up...
Death is his only hope.
You have created a hell.
An injustice anywhere is a danger to justice everywhere!
(MartinLutherKing)

He may be quilty of all those things and he may not. A confession given during, or because of, torture can "NEVER" be trusted to be completely true. It is a proven fact that everybody has a breaking point, and at that time, you will say or do whatever you have to to make the torture stop.

So, yes, he may be quilty...but we will probably never know for sure because a confession under torture is never completely trusted.

And we are suppose to belive that. The Bush Admin has lied about everything else, so why should we believe this ??? I think maybe this is all smoke.

What a bunch of bull. Anyone who has seen the movie 'Road to Guantanmo' will not believe a word of this story. Intensive interrogation techniques will elicit all kinds of 'truths.' Bull, bull, bull!

I have serious doubts about these confessions since they were admitted because of torture. Way to go George Bush McCarthy!

what good is a confession induced by torture

I am curious as to how well he speaks and underestands english.
Posted by: Rachel Schneider

Obviously spoke English well enough to graduate from a US college in 1986 if the NYT's is to be believed.

Every item in these confessions needs to be corroborated by evidence or by witnesses, but it is hard to believe that anyone could object to discovering what can be learned about the detainees' actions. These commissions are authorized by law and those who rant against Bush/Congress/the military/the press are really expressing contempt for American democracy.