US says Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has admitted to 28-plus attacks
MichaelP
they say is admitted they've got their man and there's no need to have a
show trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed or of anyone else.
The man apparently says he was responsible for everything -
and again for what it's worth, as I read the open part of transcript the
detainee has submitted in writing allegations "regarding certain treatment
(he) claims to have received at the hands of US agents" between his date
of his capture in 2003 until the date of his arrival in Gitmo,
he was also asked ".. in one of the exhibits you indicate you are not
under any pressure or duress today. Is that correct? Answer . ".. yes."
Q. "You do not believe you are under any pressure or duress today. Is that
correct? Answer . "yes..."
"Now what you have told us about your previous treatment is on the record
of this proceeding now and will be reported for any investigation that is
appropriate"
An apparent admission that there is was no "torture" during this
hearing is being reported as his confession that he was responsible for
whatever the Pentagon claims he was responsible for.
Michael
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http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2359157.ece
US says Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has admitted to 9/11 terror attacks
The Independent: (London) 15 March 2007
see also "official redacted transcript of proceedings" at
<http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2007/images/03/14/transcript_ISN10024.pdf>
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the man long alleged to have planned the September
11 attacks, has admitted responsibility for those strikes on the US and
other al-Qa'ida operations, according to a transcript of a hearing taking
place at Guantanamo Bay. There was no way to confirm the testimony as the
Bush administration has banned reporters and lawyers from proceedings.
According to the transcript, Mr Mohammed told a hearing on Saturday that
he was "responsible for the 9/11 operation, from A to Z". He also
apparently claimed to have planned assassination attempts on the former
presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, and on Pope John Paul II. He
also said he was responsible for the 1993 attack on New York's World Trade
Centre, the bombing of a nightclub in Bali, Indonesia, and an attempt to
bring down two American airplanes using shoe bombs. In all, he said he was
behind 29 planned attacks.
Speaking through his representative, a member of the US military, he
reportedly said: "I was the operational director for Sheikh Usama [Osama]
Bin Laden for the organising, planning, follow-up, and execution of the
9/11 operation."
Mr Mohammed, a Pakistani national arrested by the Pakistani authorities in
March 2003 and handed over to the United States, was among 14 so-called
"high value" detainees transferred to Guantanamo Bay last September from a
series of secret "black sites" operated by the US around the world. Last
Friday the US military began holding what it calls Combatant Status Review
Tribunals (CSRT), to assess whether the prisoners meet the criteria to be
held. None of them has been formally charged with any crime.
The Pentagon said that, while it would not allow lawyers or the media to
attend - a reversal of its policy at other CSRT, it would release an
edited transcript of the proceeding. The transcript from Mr Mohammed's
hearing ran to 26 pages, though some of his comments had been blacked out.
So far, the US military has completed hearings against six of the 14 men.
It also released transcripts of hearings for Abu Faraj al-Libi and Ramzi
Binalshibh.
Mr Binalshibh is suspected of helping Mr Mohammed with the September 11
attack plan and is also linked to a foiled plot to crash planes into
Heathrow Airport. Mr al-Libi is a Libyan accused of masterminding two
bombings 11 days apart in Pakistan in December 2003 that targeted
President Pervez Musharraf.