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KSM: "I Beheaded Reporter Daniel Pearl"
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Al Qaeda mastermind Khalid sheik Mohammed admits he personally murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, according to an updated version of his confession released today by the Pentagon.
"I decapitated with blessed right hand the head of the American Jew, Daniel Pearl, in the city of Karachi, Pakistan," Mohammed said in a written declaration submitted to a military tribunal at Guantanamo last weekend.
The Pentagon says it initially redacted the confession so that it could notify Pearl's family before the admission became public.
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ABC News had earlier reported that Mohammed, known by the initials KSM, was the person who decapitated Pearl in a video that was distributed worldwide.
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"For those who would like to confirm, there are pictures of me on the Iternet holding his head," KSM said in his statement.
US officials had told ABC News that identifying marks on the hand of the masked man holding Pearl's head matched those of KSM.
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He has also confessed to killing cock-robin and causing the disappearance of Judge Crater
Posted by: ntsc | Mar 15, 2007 12:20:34 PM
Just because a "muslim" extremist "confesses" to a criminal act of terrorism doesn't necessarily mean he did it. It could also mean that he want's credit for it and wants to boast abotu it. Many hate America with a passionate hatred and would LOVE to say "I DID IT" to impress ALL their friends!!
ej
Posted by: ray Jones | Mar 15, 2007 12:32:12 PM
So, did Khalid Sheikh Mohammed also confess to assasinating JFK?
Posted by: A. deQ. Buria | Mar 15, 2007 12:40:16 PM
An eye for an eye baby....let's do this to him because he talks about it with such passion....This story makes me stomach turn.
Posted by: julie march | Mar 15, 2007 12:45:05 PM
Is this not then reason enough to think that the Pakistanis are playing both sides of the game? They claim to be on our side, but if this happened in one of their own cities, then they're either lying or incompetent.
Posted by: Phil | Mar 15, 2007 12:45:43 PM
they need to decapitated his head now. eye for an eye!
Posted by: Jerry jasman | Mar 15, 2007 12:46:04 PM
Get whatever information from this dude, then pump two shots into his head...or just drop him out of a plane onto an AQ target...
Posted by: Jazz | Mar 15, 2007 12:47:04 PM
All lies. I not believe anything that this corrupt Bush administration is telling us especially now.
Posted by: Mark | Mar 15, 2007 1:00:00 PM
I'm closer to Mark than Julie...this bunch in charge will do or say ANYTHING to validate their ticket. Some of these folks that are in Gitmo deserve to be there, but only God will ever know who does and doesn't. This lying bunch of traitors have done more harm to our Constitution in 6 years than any other has done in 60!
Posted by: isomco | Mar 15, 2007 1:21:24 PM
Keep him alive and torture him bad every day till he begs like the dog he is to die.This to all AQ.
Posted by: scott | Mar 15, 2007 1:35:25 PM
What does the worst president in American History, Jimmy Carter, have to say about this man wanting to kill him?. I bet you will not hear a word from him but, if you do, he would find a way to blame it on George W. Bush and Israel.
Posted by: mike jones | Mar 15, 2007 1:45:35 PM
LIKE (CURVEBALL) FROM IRAG, I'D WATCH OUT WHAT PITCH THIS GUY THROWS. IT MIGHT BE A FASTBALL TO US.
Posted by: DAN | Mar 15, 2007 1:53:48 PM
I don't believe 1/2 of this. Watch the DVD "Road to Guantanamo" and you'll understand. They had guys that did NOTHING confessing to pre-written statements just to have a chance at getting out. Please, do not believe all this.
Posted by: Toni | Mar 15, 2007 1:58:24 PM
He may have beheaded Pearl but I DO NOT believe he was the mastermind of 9-11. Come on people! Wake up to the lies and manipulation of the current regime!!!!!
Posted by: charles | Mar 15, 2007 2:17:32 PM
Even most Americans would confess to anything after years of torture. Look at the guy--wonder how much near drowning waterboarding (a technique we repudiated as a war crime when others did it) treatments it took to get that message. At this point, Bush & Co have zero credibility. They might as well get the guy to confess to the OK City bombings ("he taught T. McVeigh every thing he knew")and also clean up who the anthrax murderer is--it would be just as believable.
This man probably planned and did nothing--but he is the right ethnic group, he was a part of a terrorist organization and he did admit to it. The sad truth is, even if he did do it--not many will believe it--that's what happens when a President and a Party lie and lie and lie and spin and spin and spin--after a while no one can believe ANYTHING that shoots out of their mouths--after all the spin for the past 6 years; just hearing from the Bush Administration makes decent Americans want to puke.
Posted by: memyself and I | Mar 15, 2007 2:48:07 PM
Should you journalists be asking how you can verify that this "transcript" is authentic? All the names of the government officers are redacted, the tribunal was held in secret, and the accused had no lawyer. I don't doubt KSM is a terrorist who did evil things, but doesn't it make you uneasy reporting a "confession" from a "secret government tribunal" without verification?
Posted by: Dan | Mar 15, 2007 2:49:20 PM
Lock him up in a regular US prison and let the inmates have their way with him.
Posted by: Al | Mar 15, 2007 3:13:22 PM
Geez what a coincidence! With the administration searching for just a bit of positive news, this guy would confess to all of these crimes all of a sudden. Nevermind that the confession was given during a secret military trail. I wonder if he'll confess to stealing my ipod.....
Posted by: Ron | Mar 15, 2007 3:42:02 PM
I honestly do not believe, he did it! too sweet to be true-
Posted by: Nena | Mar 15, 2007 3:43:42 PM
Mark - you dont believe this because you think the Bush Administration is corrupt? That is quite a stretch indeed.
Posted by: Chris | Mar 15, 2007 4:16:19 PM
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