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KSM: "I'm Very Sorry They Been Killed Kids in 9/11"

March 14, 2007 11:41 PM

Ksm_quad_nr After confessing to planning the 9/11 attacks, al Queida leader Khalid Sheikh Mohammed told the military tribunal hearing his case, "I don't like to kill people. I'm very sorry they been killed kids in 9/11," according to a transcript released by the Pentagon.

Apparently speaking in English, the terrorist compared himself to George Washington fighting for independence, he told the tribunal, "When you said I'm terrorist, I think it is deceiving peoples. Terrorists, enemy combatant. Because war, for sure, there will be victims."

Later in his remarks to the tribunal he raises the issue of torture, but his words are redacted in the official Pentagon transcript.

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"I know American people are torturing us from seventies. {REDACTED} I know they talking human rights. And I know it is against American constitution, against American laws," he said.

Current and former CIA officials say KSM was the subject of "extreme interrogation techniques" including water-boarding which the U.S. denies is torture.

KSM's statement to the tribunal includes what he says he was told about his treatment by interrogators: "They said every law, they have exceptions, this is your bad luck you been part of the exception of our laws."

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March 14, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (14)

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What's scary is what is not said.
More attacks are being planned.
More attacks will come.
I just hope we have the guts to fight the good fight for the long haul.

Posted by: BDH | Mar 15, 2007 5:13:24 AM

he should still burn in hell

Posted by: alex | Mar 15, 2007 11:54:55 AM

Where in this laundry list of
terrorism does KSM claim that Iraq was behind the 9/11 attacks as Dick Cheney continues to tell us to this day?
Am I missing something?

Posted by: rex | Mar 15, 2007 12:22:52 PM

Rex - please provide the quote in which Cheney says Iraq was behind the 9/11 attack.

Posted by: janh | Mar 15, 2007 2:30:59 PM

This all fits nicely with this administration's inability to find Osama.
I guess now that we have the real "master mind" we don't need to.
Uh...isn't that what the real message is here?
Redact this!

Posted by: Zach | Mar 15, 2007 8:18:03 PM

Where is our skepticism that these confessions were made under duress or torture?

Posted by: JK | Mar 16, 2007 2:34:21 PM

Yes Rex, I'm curious. I have never, ever heard a US government official say ANYTHING that would lead me to believe Iraq had anything, whatsoever, to do with 9/11. In fact, I recall specific, stringent denials on the part of our government from oh, say February 2002, where they specifically refuted those who implied that Iraq was even remotely connected with 9/11.

I believe we just wanted to close the book on Saddam once and for all, like we should have done back in 1991 when we had 3/4 of a million troops in the region to do it with. Our big mistake was believing that it was possible to conquer and occupy a country with such a small invasion force, and having no plan to establish law and order afterward.

This is war people, but you wouldn't know that to look at us. In December 1941, when we were the target of another sneak attack, the Japanese and Nazis didn't just have our army coming after them. They had ALL of us after them. Everywhere, from every corner of America, people were doing their part. War bonds, rationing of commodities like sugar, gasoline and rubber, women pressed into heavy industrial jobs, a large number of volunteer recruits, and a massive mobilization of able-bodied men courtesy of the draft. All of this for a war that was over for us in less than 4 years.

Today, we're in a war that could last for decades. Where are all those sacrifices now? Even if our army wasn't in Iraq, we would not have the manpower to sustain a global war for the next 20-30 years, unless we return to what worked then: rationing, heavy government borrowing, militarization of industry, and most important a return of the draft. How badly do we want this war to be over? What are we prepared to do to make it happen?

Posted by: Steve | Mar 16, 2007 5:16:48 PM

What? I thought Bush did it. What happened to those 9/11 hoax guys anyway. It won't matter who confesses, Bush and Cheney will be blamed. It is getting a little
reduntant and just plain weird.

Posted by: patrice | Mar 17, 2007 12:22:22 PM

Are you people kidding? Did you not hear Cheney repeat the lie that Iraq was behind the 9/11 attacks over & over again? I can do better than a quote -- I can show you video!!! How about interviews he did on MEET THE PRESS on every anniversary of 9/11 until 2005. That's three straight years of the Dick saying " credible sources" tha had been proven false for years.

Now I finally know what "dead-enders" really means. They are the Republicans that still think that Bush and Cheney know what the heck they are doing. Please tell me why they shouldn't be impeached for leading 3,200+ Americans to die in a pointless war, many thousands more with lifelong injuries and all of our great soldiers into a quagmire of a civil war. We are only creating more enemies and the world hates the US. Can you name anything that Bush Cheney have done right in the past 6 years?

Posted by: Robert | Mar 19, 2007 6:44:39 PM

UH...they havent allowed our homeland to be attacked again? Maybe that's not a big deal to everyone, but I sure do appreciate it.

Posted by: Matt | Mar 19, 2007 9:36:10 PM

UH,.."They" haven't done much to actually stop the homeland from being attacked either have they?
What would be your list of "their" accomplishments to achieve this newly found security?
Are our borders more secure? Are plane cargo holds more secure? Are the shipped containers in our ports more secure?
Are any of these things more secure to such a great degree than prior to 9/11?
Perhaps, since that date there haven't been any real attempted attacks on our homeland?
Now that we have KSM... the mastermind behind most of all that, we can all sleep easier.

Posted by: Zach | Mar 22, 2007 8:21:08 PM

I think that the arguement that bush and cheney "haven't allowed our homeland to be attacked in 6 years", is absolutely absurd. Using that logic, that means that between 1993 when the wtc was originally attacked and 9/11/01 everyone was doing a stellar job in protecting us because we weren't attacked. These people are meticulous and shrewd and scarily patient. They could just be waiting for the right moment to attack. To think otherwise is dangerously naive. This war has made us more vulnerable to that threat, not less.

Posted by: Vlad Acevedo | Mar 23, 2007 8:24:38 PM

The Republican Party are the real terrorists. Obama '08!

Posted by: John | Mar 27, 2007 5:37:16 PM

It's funny to think that we are so against Islam. When we have had more abortion clinic bombings in the last 10 yrs from radical Christians than we ever had with Islamic inspired acts in 20 years.
Not to mention we have a president who believes, "God told him to.." attack Iraq!!??
War on Terror (Christianity) anybody??

Posted by: John | Mar 27, 2007 5:43:30 PM

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