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...