He has also confessed to killing cock-robin and causing the disappearance of Judge Crater

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!!

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So, did Khalid Sheikh Mohammed also confess to assasinating JFK?

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.

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.

they need to decapitated his head now. eye for an eye!

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...

All lies. I not believe anything that this corrupt Bush administration is telling us especially now.

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!

Keep him alive and torture him bad every day till he begs like the dog he is to die.This to all AQ.

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.

LIKE (CURVEBALL) FROM IRAG, I'D WATCH OUT WHAT PITCH THIS GUY THROWS. IT MIGHT BE A FASTBALL TO US.

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.

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!!!!!

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.

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?

Lock him up in a regular US prison and let the inmates have their way with him.

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.....

I honestly do not believe, he did it! too sweet to be true-

Mark - you dont believe this because you think the Bush Administration is corrupt? That is quite a stretch indeed.

The real story is not about Mohammed or Bush. The real story is the tragedy and loss of Daniel Pearl and others as wells as the devastating effects on their families. I personally believe that the media is giving all of the extremists a platform for their unknown causes. If we start isolating their outlet for expression we mute their cause. An unrealistic approach but a necessary one.

Wow this guy was busy and an incredible organizer, can we hire him to fix things in Iraq?

...Did he confess to witch craft as well?

People wake up! Bush is not the cause of our problems. This was happing before he became president. These people hate us! They have for years. If Clinton win, it still will be the same.

Next we'll hear he caused the Indian Ocean Tsunami and started the Chicago Fire. He's had a long time at Gitmo to be "trained" on what to confess. The administration can button up all their loose ends with one execution. Then they can hold up that trophy and the trophy for hanging Saddam while the pundits become the historians who chronicle the great W Bush administration. Needless to say, I seriously doubt much of what he admits to doing.

I totally disagree with the comment made above. Maybe Bush didn't cause the problem, but he sure magnified it. We're suppose to be able to trust and rely on our elected officials. Democrat or Republican, at this point I'm not sure any of them can be relied upon or trusted.

If this man did half of the things he confessed to, he would have to be in two places at the same time... He is taking ALL the blame on himself... Why? That way, everybody wins, especially his cause.

Did you hear? He also confessed to stealing the Lindbergh baby and pushing humpty dumpty off the wall.
Mr Mohammed swears that this has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with distracting American attention from the firing of the federal prosecutors. He promises that Karl "Machiavelli" Rove and George "Pinocchio" Bush are in no way responsible for torturing him into confessing.

As I said, wake up people! Most of the people on these message boards are not American people they are from other countries, they want us to believe that American feel this way. We love the USA and George W. Bush.

Cynlee - I'm American and love the USA, and hate Bush and his administration. This is a distraction and there is NO way to believe in this 'confession' - WATCH "ROAD TO GUANTANAMO" EVERYONE...after 1.5 yrs and way less torture than what KSM has endured, guys 'confessed' to things they did not do and finally released by our gov't out of embarrassment (can't be in 2 countries at the same time).

Well, I'm American and I love the US, but Bush is an idiot (I do not support our president and am so sad for our country). Bush has irreparably tarnished our reputation in the eyes of too many (including a huge number of Americans). If you don't believe that, you're living under a rock somewhere.

This whole trip, from tribunal to confession is like watching something cooked up by the "Ministry of Information" in Orwell's 1984.
All these years and our intel never knew he was guilty of everything but Cain killing Abel untl his confession?
Wow!

Truth or fiction.....who knows? What the heck? Just throw him in with the general population in prison. If he feels the U.S. tortured him, his torture would be nothing compared to the reception they'd give him in prison.

DON'T BELIEVE A WORD FROM THIS CORRUPT ADMINISTRATION! THEY'RE ALL A
BUNCH OF LIARS!!!!!!

I believe he is the mastermind - there's collaborating evidence beyond his confession. Unfortunately, the torture policy immediately nullifies his confession, and the credibility of any witness likewise coerced, thus always leaving an indefensible shred of doubt. There are enough studies out there (that were previously rejected by the administration) that torture can produce any testimony you want.

What's more frustrating is that a hallmark of Al Qaeda and jihadis in general is a proud claim to their own actions - how much could we have gotten out of this guy just by letting him spill his own guts?

It's just too bad that our field-tested system of justice and criminal pursuit, developed over 200 years of usage, was immediately deemed inadequate after 9/11. Sure would've been nice to still have moral authority and transparent fairness on our side when it comes to cases like this.

This guy's the mastermind and for 6 years all we've heard is Osama, Osama, Osama?
We even went to war in Afghanistan to catch, not KSM but Osama!. KSM wasn't even on the media or this administration's radar.
Now, all of a sudden...

You kids are WAY off in your denial of how unsimplistic and complex life can be. Apparently, KSM offered up the 9/11 idea to UBL in 1996. The plot was approved by UBL in '98 or '99. UBL gave financial support and KSM provided material and operational support. Why is the creation and implementation of this brilliant plan so impossible for people to believe? And Zach, maybe YOU are the one who had never heard of KSM until now. Pay attention! Pray that none of you are next, kiddies...

If you torture someone long enough they’ll “confess” to having planned Napolean’s invasion of Russia. This is soon before this individual is to have not an open trial but a closed military tribunal. Funny how this supposed “confession” news is based upon not something videotaped and shown on the “news” but a written transcript from the DoD. The same DoD that claimed Pat Tillman was cut down while charging up a hill in the teeth of Taliban machine-gun fire when he was behind a boulder and shot by friendly fire from trigger-happy Army Rangers. The same DoD that every time a helicopter gets shot down in Iraq or Afghanistan they always say it made an “emergency landing” after suffering “mechanical problems”. (The same DoD that still claims Agent Orange and depleted uranium aren’t harmful). Anyone who takes them at their word has rocks in their head.

...for those who wish to do harm to Mr. Mohammed, remember that America is a "Christian" nation, or so we like to claim--if this is supposedly true, a rereading of Matthew 5:38-48 might be helpful in doling out a suitable punishment for Mr. Mohammed's confessed transgressions--or what would Jesus do?

You could be right, Jazz.
Heaven knows, someone had to master mind 9/11.
Especially the way those buildings imploded and folded in on themselves the way they did.

The entire section of lower Manhattan was dusted - from river to river. The "incident" was not as clean as some might think. The buildings could have been hit with jet fuel-laden airliners and been destroyed. It's cool to be skeptical and convinced that reality is different than it appears, tho...

I find it not only intriguing and very curious that VP Cheney chastises Democrats for what he calls 'playing into the hands of Muslim fundamental extremists' by wanting to exit Iraq but fails to accept responsibility that the actions of the Bush administration, the invasion of Iraq in the first place, is the precursor for the complete chaos we find in Iraq. Perhaps I shouldn't be surprised by any statement of the VP or Bush. They would have benefitted from watching Sir Lawrence of Arabia to know why Colin Powell said you will 'own Iraq' should you choose to invade. And even worse, the administration seems to be taking policy lessons from George Orwell's book 'Animal Farm' for their depictions of the world they've created, making totally misleading and inaccurate statements that change weekly. They must assume that the average person (espcially the loyal Bushies) will be so naive to believe this rubbish. The invasion by a western nation into the heart of Islam was the very thing Bin Laden wanted and needed to ignite his holy war against the US, leading to civil war in Iraq and total loss of our credibility as a nation that can be trusted to lead with integrity. My fear and amazement is we continue to allow Bush and Cheney to represent (lead?) the U.S. at all after the lies perpetrated on this country and the terror directed on the rest of the world. Undoubtedly, the Bush administration will be judged by our children, grandchildren and future generations to be the most corrupt, dishonest, vile and heinous in our country's history. If we are wise, we will not wait for our children to have this realization, but we'll take steps now to have our own regime change by ousting this treacherous, power mongering, incompetent administration via legal means before they can do further damage to our country's reputation and people.

OH AND THE DEMOCRATS (CLINTON) CAN BE TRUSTED? COME ON THEY ARE ALL CROOKS/LIARS

The man was tortured by US officials - and he confessed to a number of crimes spanning the globe. It sounds more like the "confessions" offered up by the thousands of enemies of Stalin. Not credible. Why is there no scepticism in reporting the results of a government show trial? What is the role of the media?

Under torture long enough anybody will say anything to make it stop. But it looks like with all the evidence he was no doubt a sorry human that will hurt others if he had the chance. I have a hard time believing much that comes out of Washington, the Pentagon and CIA, etc. They've proven time and time again to be dishonest, so I think it's well deserved.

I think that these guys are nothing but a bunch of cowards