Rise and shine!
I don't think it should be said that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed confessed to the 9/11 attacks and other plots and murders. I think it should be stated that he bragged about being the mastermind of all that carnage and misery.
He's loud. He's proud. He thinks he's a hero. You know he does.
No doubt, the fringe Left will insist that Mohammed's statements are invalid because the poor man who is responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocents was tortured.
If they accept Mohammed's "confessions," they still probably will focus on the horrible interrogation methods used on him.
In their world, America is the enemy. Always.
WASHINGTON -- Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, confessed to that attack and a chilling string of other terror plots during a military hearing at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to a transcript released Wednesday by the Pentagon.
"I was responsible for the 9/11 operation from A to Z," Mohammed said in a statement read during the session, which was held last Saturday.
The transcripts also refer to a claim by Mohammed that he was tortured by the CIA, although he said he was not under duress at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo when he confessed to his role in the attacks.
In a section of the statement that was blacked out, he confessed to the beheading of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, The Associated Press has learned. Pearl was abducted in January 2002 in Pakistan while researching a story on Islamic militancy. Mohammed has long been a suspect in the killing.
Using his own words, the extraordinary transcript connects Mohammed to dozens of the worst terror plots attempted or carried out in the last 15 years — and to others that have not occurred. All told, thousands have died in operations he directed.
His words draw al-Qaida closer to plots of the early 1990s than the group has previously been connected to, including the 1993 World Trade Center truck bombing. Six people with links to global terror networks were convicted in federal court and sentenced to life in prison.
...In all, Mohammed said he was responsible for planning 28 attacks and assisting in three others. The comments were included in a 26-page transcript released by the Pentagon, which blacked out some of his remarks.
Mohammed also claimed he was tortured by the CIA after his capture in 2003, according to an exchange he had with the unidentified military colonel who heads the three-member panel that heard his case.
"Is any statement that you made, was it because of this treatment, to use your word, you claim torture," the colonel asked. "Do you make any statements because of that?"
Portions of Mohammed's response were deleted from the transcript, and his immediate answer was unclear. He later said his confession read at the hearing to the long list of attacks was given without any pressure, threats or duress.
The Lefty AP reports that Mohammed's confession was made when he was not feeling threatened or being tortured.
Still, I imagine the loons on the Left are piecing together their conspiracy theories right now.
Mohammed was tortured. GASP! The government is covering up what really happened.
Mohammed admitted to being "responsible for the 9/11 operation from A to Z" because he was scared and wasn't treated nicely. He had no choice but to confess!
Someone call Amnesty International!
Someone nominate Mohammed for the Nobel Peace Prize!
..."When I said I'm not happy that 3,000 been killed in America, I feel sorry even. I don't like to kill children and the kids," the transcript said.
Oh, how touching! I'm getting choked up. Mohammed feels remorse.
Sure he does.
I don't buy that at all. The man's life work has been killing the infidels and plotting to kill as many as possible.
Are we really to believe that Mohammed wasn't happy in his work?
Poor, poor Mohammed. Stuck in a dead end job that he didn't find fulfilling. What torture!
...Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, questioned the legality of the closed-door session and confession and whether the confession was the result of torture.
"We won't know that unless there is an independent hearing," he said. "We need to know if this purported confession would be enough to convict him at a fair trial or would it have to be suppressed as the fruit of torture?"
Oh, dear God!
These people are nuts!!!
These supposed guardians of human rights are actually enemies of human rights.
Perhaps that's why Roth wants to protect Mohammed. There's a kinship, a common purpose.
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