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Confessions of a Terrorist: I'm Guilty of 3,000+ Murders
March 14, 2007 8:21 PM
Presidents Clinton and Carter, Pope John Paul II, Henry Kissinger, the Empire State Building, the Library Tower in Los Angeles and the Sears Tower in Chicago were among the targets of al Qaeda attacks planned by captured al Qaeda terror commander Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, according to a written statement he filed this weekend at a hearing held at the American prison at Guantanamo.
Known as KSM, he also formally admitted responsibility for the 9/ll attacks, the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the bombing of a nightclub in Bali, Indonesia.
KSM, captured in 2003 in Pakistan, was subjected by the CIA to waterboarding and other "extreme interrogation" techniques, according to current and former CIA officials.
Legal experts say his case will test whether confessions made as the result of such techniques will be admissible under the rules of the special Combatant Tribunals established by the Bush administration.
KSM's confession is a remarkable document, listing most of the known, and a few unknown, terror attacks or plots over the last 10 years.
Click here for the actual document.
"I was responsible for the 9/ll operation, from A to Z," the declaration reads.
He also says he was responsible for planning and financing a "second wave" of attacks that targeted the Library Tower in Los Angeles, the Sears Towers in Chicago, the Plaza Bank in Washington State and the Empire State Building in New York.
FBI officials in Chicago had previously denied ABC News reports that the Sears Tower was a possible target.
Click Here for Full Blotter Coverage.
He says the Sears Tower was to be destroyed by "burning a few fuel or oil tanker trunks beneath it or around it."
KSM also says he was planning attacks on American military vessels in the Straights of Hormuz, Gibraltar and the Port of Singapore, along with a plan to bomb and destroy the Panama Canal.
Also on KSM's plot list: U.S. embassies, Israeli embassies, Israeli passenger jets at the Bangkok Airport, U.S. targets in South Korea, NATO headquarters, U.S. nuclear power plants and "an American oil company owned by the Jewish former Secrreatry of State, Henry Kissinger, on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia."
Click here for the transcript to Bin al Shibh's hearing.
Click here for the transcript to Abu Faraj al Libi's hearing.
March 14, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (37)
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"KSM's confession is a remarkable document, listing most of the known, and a few unknown, terror attacks or plots over the last 10 years"
ALL that by his little ol' self? How conveinent and the timing, right on.
Posted by: Amy | Mar 15, 2007 1:52:12 PM
does the Bush Administration honestly expect us to believe this?
Forever this guy was denying responsibility for a lot of what he was being accused of, and now, after "being interrogated" for long periods of time, he just decided to confess?
The People see right through this.
c'mon Mr. President, could you have made it anymore obvious that you tortured him?
Posted by: kc | Mar 15, 2007 3:19:19 PM
So with this confession, Bin Laden and Sadam aren't responsible for these attacks?
Posted by: Aaron C | Mar 15, 2007 4:49:42 PM
This stuff is even more amazing than the single bullet theory!!
And our credibility in the eyes of the rest of the world continues it's downward spiral!
Posted by: Zach | Mar 15, 2007 8:41:41 PM
I've often wondered what became of Louie from Taxi.
Now I know.
Posted by: Zach | Mar 15, 2007 9:13:46 PM
That is my question too.
If KSM is guilty, then what was Osama's role? Are we supposed to now turn our attention to a guy who happens to be in prison, safely captured, or are we to still be chasing the fellow our executive branch has been telling us for year's was the undoubted planner of terror upon our soil?
Wake up Mr. Executive! Changing targets mid-stream will not get you off the hook for a failed mission.
Posted by: Dripline | Mar 15, 2007 9:50:41 PM
Hopefully, Khalid will be tried and executed within a month or two.
No point in dragging things out.
Posted by: Dave Surls | Mar 15, 2007 9:51:49 PM
How did he target the Plaza Bank in Washington state, when in fact the Plaza Bank was founded in 2006, after he was in US custody?
'Founded in early 2006, with a vision of creating the leading commercial bank in the Pacific Northwest, Plaza Bank’s story quickly captured the hearts and passion of some of the region’s leading business minds.'
Posted by: Eric | Mar 16, 2007 2:54:20 AM
After reading through everything I still think there is something more that the "our" goverment is not telling us. There has been so much speculation that the US was behind 9/11 attacks and there is video streaming the internet with more detailed info. There is so much private info out there that the government keeps secret from us the people
Posted by: Janet | Mar 16, 2007 9:31:53 AM
Extreme torture is an unreliable way of obtainig complete truth. There should be persons endowed with King Solomon kind of wisdom who could read between lines of his 'confessions'.
Posted by: biodun | Mar 16, 2007 2:50:14 PM
I think confession is very inportant !!. Because this confession will safe many people.
and,i hope that will resolve most problem 'nuclear wepone' .
i can't writte english well ,but i want to progress to resolve these problems.
Posted by: japanease | Mar 17, 2007 2:08:30 PM
More lies from the administration. When are we going to learn that they simply NEVER tell the truth? And the press justs accepts this B.S. Wake up America, the emperor has no clothes.
Posted by: Bear | Mar 18, 2007 4:32:00 PM
well, if this truly is the correct way of getting people to tell the truth, then how about putting the bush administration under the gun to see what they will confess to.
Posted by: larry | Mar 22, 2007 11:23:44 AM
Confessions read by the occupying prosecution and made after years of imprisonment which reportedly included torture is repeatedly announced and heralded as gospel.
While, as in the case of the 15 Brits being held in Iran for less than a week and video taped giving their own confessions, these statements are held up as lies and treachery coerced from the troops?
Does this constant barrage on the intelligence of the people of the US and UK ever stop?
It's becoming abundantly clear that this whole New World Order is founded on Alice in Wonderland?
Posted by: Zach | Apr 3, 2007 1:06:38 PM
all you people who complain about torture this and torture that have forgotten about the WTC victims and all of the soldiers who died and will die in this Iraqi war. You people are so quick to place blame or say this or that doesn't work but provide no other solutions. It must be nice to sit at home on your couch and not have to deal with the unspeakable and monstrous things our government has to deal with. Pick up a gun and go over seas or consider how easy you have it and thank those men and women bringing you the blanket of freedom or SHUT UP!
Posted by: Dr. Common Sense | Dec 9, 2007 3:46:06 PM
Reading these posts has lead me to some conclusions about stupid people: 1) That they're clairvoyant, hence they can read the minds of George Bush and everyone else who runs the U.S. government. 2) That they know best how to run the country, including the setting of foreign policy. and 3) That they are completely full of vicious hatred for themselves and their fellow citizens.
Posted by: phred | Mar 17, 2008 9:22:21 AM
Celine Dion him to death!
Posted by: scary big | Aug 27, 2008 5:09:20 PM
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