This confession isnt new. This was reported more than a year ago.

Daniel Pearl was killed because he was an American, not because he was Daniel Pearl.

The family has a right to profound personal grief, but the voracity of KSM's confession is the government's and KSM's defense attorney's business.

NO THEY DON'T! We have known he was involved for years. And what is the point of this story anyway? He is going to be put to death for it, and more than 3100 other murders.

I think KSM is trying to absolve the crime from AlQueada/Osama.why?He is also very particular about the SHARED responsibility for trying to assasinate the pope.He is very particular about his correct disignation in Alqueada that he is Media operations director.But he is also is trying to make the killing of Pearl as the handiwork of Pakistan mujahadeen and not related to alqueada. What he gains by this? If he is carrying out the orders of Pakistan mujahadeen though he is also the media director of alqueada, but the killing is not the responsibility of Alqueada; then what he is trying to convey? The other convicted killer Omar sheikh who is in Pakistan jail and not extradicted to USA, puts a question mark. Is he of heigher rank in the terrorist heirarchy that KSM could be extradicted but not this Omar. What secret he holds? what secret Pearl found out that he has to be killed? The ineptness of american public to know the difference between taliban and Alqueada is well used by KSM. The saga of this brutal murder and this recent confession has raised only more questions.

When the father of Daniel Pearl says KSM had nothing to loose in relation to the confession of killing his son, I agree.

I also believe other confessions KSM has made are a convenient fabrication, also.

It was the U.S government trying to strike fear and further justify their unwarranted attacks on Iraq. Just look at the Nick Berg incident. There is quite a bit of evidence that shows the U.S was involved. May the truth come out.

This is a smoke screen...We are NOT fools, quit treating us like we are...I trust NO ONE in Government anymore....NO ONE!!!!

Unfortunately, more importantly, he was killed because he was Jewish, only secondly was he killed becasue he was an American -in radical Islam - to die killing non-Muslims is key - to die killing Jews is the highest mmission - why do after almost 30 years people still refuse to acknowledge the threat we face.

This "confession" of KSM smells to me also.

It nicely absolves the earlier convicted Daniel Pearl killer/mastermind and 911 paymaster, the ISI-linked Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, from blame.

Love America, Hate the stupid Americans!

Everything I read about KSM says he comes out an even bigger hero of the Jihadists than before his capture. Don't be surprised if he says he was involved in the deaths of Dodi and Diana. American torture and secrecy leave all his testimony tainted.

America finally has its own Stalinist show trials. The laundry list of crimes that KSM is confessing to is amazing. Has he confessed to being on the grassy knoll in Dallas yet? This just shows the uselessness of using torture to obtain information. Just like during the Inquisition, what you obtain is misinformation.

Uh....what unwarrented attacks in Iraq? You mean taking out guys who are building car bombs that kill and maim 150 people at a time? Also, note that there are no more televised beheadings of Americans. I wonder why.

The more of the bad guys you take out, the better. Best wishes to the US Military for blotting out their memory forever.

The family may be right or wrong, but they are intitled to their grief. God bless Daniel & his family, and our wonderfull US of A.

Respecfuly,

Stephen A. Dombrowski

Why does it have to be either al Qaeda or KSM instead of both? They were working together. KSM was a terror attack planner who enjoyed getting his hands dirty. UBL is a financier and organizer, big picture, strategy guy. Think of KSM as a contractor for UBL and you got the relationship. KSM probably killed Pearl to protect himself and al Qaeda from exposure.

I can't believe anything out of our government after the lies that were deliberately told - repeatedly - to get us into the Iraq War.

The KSM confessions are ludicrous. Its all part of a theme that "We've really been at war with Islamist for the last 30 years only we didn't know it." IOW, they've been attacking us for 30 years. We had been shelling Beirut when the Marine barracks was attacked but our media consistently presents it as something out of the blue that the barracks was attacked. The US conspired with the British and the Iranian military to reimpose that megalomaniac Shah on the Iranians in the early 50's. Yeah, we've been at war with them for longer than 30 years and we have been the aggressors.

Torture people and see what they confess to. Maybe he did it, maybe not.... the guy probably knows there is no way out of our beautiful foreign prisons, so what not "confess"? The ridiculous things that are happening in this country... History will look at us during this time as barbarians and they all will be scratching their heads at how foolish we are.

This quote perplexes me: "It sends a message to the millions and millions of youth that are currently on the verge of joining the ideology of unruly violence that there will always be people like Asra or Danny; reporters that are probing, courageous, truth-minded and open-minded. They will be after you." Does this person REALLY think that would be terrorist will be scared of JOURNALIST?!? It's perplexing as well to think that somehow one possesses greater investigative abilities than the investagators working on the case...and as well, question the motives of those that do. I find it absurd that even if only one or two individuals were working on this case would have anything to gain by not actually trying to get to the root of the matter...and of course, there are more than just a few working on this case. It seems some journalist will search only for what they want to be true sometimes.

People should at least show some respect fot the family of Daniel Pearl

"Just look at the Nick Berg incident."

Antoinette, Islamists want to sever you head! It is no more complicated than that. They first tell you what they will do, then they do it and film it, then they tell us they did it and gloat. Does it really require a convoluted conspiracy theory to put the pieces together?

The article was wonderful. There are still rational people in the world. Thank you Mr. Pearl.

america land of the gullable -
awareness is a 100 times more relevant than IQ in these days of massive government cover-ups and fabricated b-movie motives that most americans niavely flock towards like grain fed sheep-

Instead of fearing that we squeezed this guy's testicles in a bear trap until he confessed to every terror event or plot in the last 30 years, a far more realistic source of skepticism is that it's likely that he's:
A) Taking credit to cover for others.
and
B) exagerating to puff up his self image to look like more of hero to terrorists.

He was absolutely involved in at least half of the things he confessed to(even indicted in a regular US court), but the rest he only had slight or moderate involvemet at best,or were just things that got talked about & maybe even approved, but never went anywhere.

One thing's clear, this guy absolutely lives for this stuff(murdering people) & the only thing I'll be sad about when he gets the death penalty is that you can only kill a psychopath like this one time & there a variety of ways I'd like to see him go.

We may disagree with some of what he says but Mr Pearl's comments were clearly not made to make USA look weak or bad. He gives logical reasons for his doubts about the terrorist's commnents (vanity and bravado) and he sites a lack of explanition about others that held his son (the wearabouts fo the guy that owned the nursury and "3 Arabs" that showed up on the last day of his son's death.
While he does not addrss the US Government's (the good guys) forensic evidence he may not have access to it. At no time does he accuse the US Government (the good guys) of torture. He merley mentions that governments are bureaucracies that sometimes do not address the issues of the indivdual--this is not a political statement, merley one of a father who wants justice directed against his and our enemies--those who murdered his son. I wish him well.

Personally, I don't believe that VFA-41 Black Aces Navy friends feel that they should "KILL THEM ALL LET GOD SORT THEM OUT (sic)," but, if they do, it's another reason that America's reputation is being blackened around the world. Has anyone noticed that the longer the troops "fight for our freedom," the less freedom we have (Patriot Act, REAL ID, warrantless eavesdropping, Military Commissions Act)? What will it take for the "heroes" to realize that they are being lied to and manipulated?

Come on. . . Please. . . Anyone with a brain can fathom that KSM has nothing, nothing at all to lose and everything to gain by assuming all the responsibility. Everyone is a winner with his confession. the US government, a la the George W. Bush administration, wins because now that KSM has confessed it can stop investigating (that is, the case is closed; we found the killer). Al Queda wins because now the US no longer needs to pursue it with great intensity and vigor since the 'real' killer has confessed. It's an easy way out for everyone involved. Moreover, we do not know how much money it may have taken for KSM to say that he did it (money that may be going to his immediate family members -- who knows?).
As of 11 September 2001, I no longer trust anyone in the US Government, not even in the state and local goverments. I am sorry; I just lost the faith and the trust in the US government. It is all a con job anyway, like the FEderal REserve, the income tax, the War in Iraq that has made several people very rich.
To Mr. Pearl's father, I say that your son was killed by more than one person, and who knows, that person may have be an American as well. Who knows?

Secret prisons, show trials, and torture tainted confessions only serve to undermine our cause and strengthen that of the terrorists.

This administration continues to telegraph to the world their own lack of faith in our system of government and jurisprudence.

We must show backbone where they do not. Demand open and fair trials for all the accused even the worst of worst. Only when we show the strength of our system will defeat the terrorist's by exposing the weakness of theirs.

I believe KSM was ruthless enough to conceive or perform some of the terrorist acts, but I don't feel he's actually bright enough for all of them. As long as he's been in captivity, he probably just caved in and admitted quite a bit of things that others were actually involved in.