An enemy combatant who has confessed to planning the bombing of the USS Cole says he bought the boat and the explosives and that he was with Osama bin Laden in Kandahar, Afghanistan, when the bombing was carried out in October 2000.

Waleed Mohammed Bin Attash confessed to planning the attack on the destroyer that killed 17 sailors in the Gulf of Aden in Yemen.

During the enemy combatant tribunal at Guantanamo Bay, the tribunal president asked Attash what his role was in the Cole bombing.

"Many roles," he said, according to a transcript of the tribunal proceeding released by the Pentagon. "I participated in the buying or purchasing of the explosives. I put together the plan for the operation a year and a half prior to the operation, buying the boat and recruiting the members that did the operation."

Another key planner of the Cole attacks, Jamal Ahmed al Badwi, escaped from a prison in Yemen last year and was recaptured six months later to continue serving a 10-year sentence for his role in the plot.

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Attash also confessed to playing a key role in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, saying he was the link between bin Laden and his deputy Abu Hafs al Masri and the cell chief in Nairobi.

"I was the link that was available in Pakistan," he said. "I used to supply the cell with whatever documents they need from fake stamps to visas, whatever, sending them from Afghanistan to Pakistan and individuals, cell members."

Read the transcript to Bin Attash's hearing.