Khalid Sheikh Mohammed confesses 9/11 role
POSTED: 8:28 p.m. EDT, March 14, 2007

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the September 11 attacks on the United States, has admitted responsibility for those and other major al Qaeda operations, according to the transcript of a hearing at Guantanamo Bay released on Wednesday.

"I was responsible for the 9/11 Operation, from A to Z," Mohammed, speaking through a personal representative, said, according to the transcript of the hearing on Saturday at the U.S. military prison camp in Cuba released by the Pentagon.

Mohammed, a Pakistani national, also said he was responsible for a 1993 attack on New York's World Trade Center, the bombing of a nightclub in Bali, Indonesia, and an attempt to down two American airplanes using shoe bombs.

"I was the operational director for Sheikh Usama [Osama] Bin Laden for the organizing, planning, follow-up, and execution of the 9/11 operation," he said through his representative, a member of the U.S. military.

The transcript said Mohammed was present at the hearing, which is to determine whether he meets the definition of an "enemy combatant."

Mohammed is among 14 prisoners identified by U.S. authorities as "high-value" terrorism suspects and transferred to Guantanamo last year from secret CIA prisons abroad.

He was arrested in Pakistan in March 2003 and handed over to the United States.

Possible police role in 2002 Bali attack
October 12, 2005 - 10:44PM

Indonesian police or military officers may have played a role in the 2002 Bali bombing, the country's former president, Abdurrahman Wahid says.

In an interview with SBS's Dateline program, on the third anniversary of the bombing that killed 202 people, Mr Wahid says he has grave concerns about links between Indonesian authorities and terrorist groups.

While he believed terrorists were involved in planting one of the Kuta night club bombs, the second, which destroyed Bali's Sari Club, had been organised by authorities.

Asked who he thought planted the second bomb, Mr Wahid said: "Maybe the police ... or the armed forces."

"The orders to do this or that came from within our armed forces not from the fundamentalist people," he says.

The program also claims a key figure behind the formation of terror group Jemaah Islamiah was an Indonesian spy.

Former terrorist Umar Abduh, who is now a researcher and writer, told Dateline Indonesian authorities had a hand in many terror groups.

"There is not a single Islamic group either in the movement or the political groups that is not controlled by (Indonesian) intelligence," he said.

Abduh has written a book on Teungku Fauzi Hasbi, a key figure in Jemaah Islamiah (JI) who had close contact with JI operations chief Hambali and lived next door to Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir.

He says Hasbi was a secret agent for Indonesia's military intelligence while at the same time a key player in creating JI.

Documents cited by SBS showed the Indonesian chief of military intelligence in 1990 authorised Hasbi to undertake a "special job".

A 1995 internal memo from the military intelligence headquarters in Jakarta included a request to use "Brother Fauzi Hasbi" to spy on Acehnese separatists in Indonesia, Malaysia and Sweden.

And a 2002 document assigned Hasbi the job of special agent for BIN, the Indonesian national intelligence agency.

Security analyst John Mempi told SBS that Hasbi, who was also known as Abu Jihad, had played a key role in JI in its early years.

"The first Jemaah Islamiah congress in Bogor was facilitated by Abu Jihad, after Abu Bakar Bashir returned from Malaysia," Mr Mempi said.

"We can see that Abu Jihad played an important role. He was later found to be an intelligence agent. So an intelligence agent has been facilitating the radical Islamic movement."

Hasbi was disembowelled in a mysterious murder in 2003 after he was exposed as a military agent and his son Lamkaruna Putra died in a plane crash last month.

Another convicted terrorist, Timsar Zubil, who set off three bombs in Sumatra in 1978, told the program intelligence agents had given his group a provocative name - Komando Jihad - and encouraged members to commit illegal acts.

"We may have deliberately been allowed to grow," he said.

Abduh also told the program his terrorist organisation, the Imron Movement, was incited to a range of violent action in the 1980s when the Indonesian military told the group that the assassination of several Muslim clerics was imminent.

Another terrorism expert, George Aditjondro, said a bombing in May this year that killed 23 people in the Christian village of Tentena, in central Sulawesi, had been organised by senior military and police officers.

"This is a strategy of depopulating an area and when an area has been depopulated - both becoming refugees or becoming paramilitary fighters - then that is the time when they can invest their money in major resource exploitation there," he said.

Just by way of fleshing out my 'compartmentalisation' theory, here is an article describing how the former President of Indonesia believes the country's own authorities were, in part, responsbile for the Bali bombings, which KSM has also 'confessed' to having had a role in.

he basically says he did everything ....I think it's a ruse to come up with some good news out of the pentagon....

"I was the operational director for Sheikh Usama [Osama] Bin Laden for the organizing, planning, follow-up, and execution of the 9/11 operation," he said through his representative, a member of the U.S. military.

"I was responsible for the 9/11 Operation, from A to Z," Mohammed, speaking through a personal representative, said, according to the transcript of the hearing on Saturday at the U.S. military prison camp in Cuba released by the Pentagon.

Mohammed, a Pakistani national, also said he was responsible for a 1993 attack on New York's World Trade Center, the bombing of a nightclub in Bali, Indonesia, and an attempt to down two American airplanes using shoe bombs.

I dont think he'll be executed.

I wonder how long he lasted under water boarding before they forced a confession out of him.

Of course he'll be executed.. all Patsy's never survive the aftermath.

Quick question guys:

In your opinions, who are the good guys - confessed mass murdering terrorists or our government?

Reading this thread, the answer seems obvious.

Quick counter:

In your opinion, who can be the good guys in a situation where the government commits terrorist attacks as a pretext for war then blames it on they're Cia assets then sell the story to the public as if its the Gospel Truth?

Reading your post, the answer is obvious.

what a Ridiculous question
it dosent surprise me that nobody answered it!!!

Was there an answer to my question somewhere in there?

Your answer is merely within the way you phrased the question.....

Huh?

Instead of doing another symantics dance here, let me just cut it off at the pass. My reason for bringing up the question is the fact that nearly everyone in this thread appears to be painting Khalid Sheikh Mohammed as a victim of abuse and torture at the hands of our government

Instead of doing another symantics dance here, let me just cut it off at the pass. My reason for bringing up the question is the fact that nearly everyone in this thread appears to be painting Khalid Sheikh Mohammed as a victim of abuse and torture at the hands of our government with absolutely no proof whatsoever and ignoring the actual testimony in which he's admitted to masterminding plans to exectute thousands of people. He's also admitted to being the man who beheaded Daniel Pearl. And people here seem to be portraying him as the good guy and our government as the bad guys.

This disturbs me greatly.

Um excuse me Tk, but maybe you didnt catch the fact that HE WAS TORTURED BY OUR GOVERNMENT!! AT THE HANDS OF THE CIA!!!

You fail to remember we believe with evidence, that our government planned 9/11 as a pretext for war.

I guess I didn't catch this fact. Where was it mentioned?

When you say "we believe", you must be talking about you and supporters of the CT, because I don't believe our government planned 9/11.

What does this have to do with the point I made?

No really, you think???????? Where is this posted? The conspiracy forum.............do you think thats why I said "we"?? Plus the topic started is a so called CT.

Once again Tk, your slow on catching it; forget it.

AUL, do you find it disturbing that a portion of Americans are now seeming to side with the terrorists? I do. That's my point.

To be clear, I'm asking for a reputable link that stated he was tortured at the hands of the CIA, because I haven't seen that.

To be clear, I'm asking for a reputable link that stated he was tortured at the hands of the CIA, because I haven't seen that.

Mohammed has been kept in controversial circumstances, most of the time in complete secrecy, since his capture in Pakistan in 2003. He has no access to a lawyer and allegations have been made that he was tortured while in US custody.

Human Rights Watch called Thursday for the United States to release a separate statement by Mohammed in which he claims to have been tortured while held by the CIA.

"It is a glaring misuse of the classification power for the government to classify information simply because it might be embarrassing or unlawful," Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, said in a statement.

"Mohammed's claims of torture should be investigated rather than concealed."

The White House has declined to comment on Mohammed's statements, saying it did not want to influence any legal proceedings.

Out of the 31, 20 either never occured, were just scouting missions, or providing money to other groups.

That leaves 11 actual missions that were undertaken.

Of those 4 were failures, all of which were tied back to Al Qaeda or Al Qaeda sponsered groups (or admitted to by Al Qaeda) and in one case KSM was named at the likely mastermind.

Of the 7 successful missions, all were known or suspected Al Qaeda operations, so it is likely that the head of their operations would have been involved in the planning and execution of them.

Interestingly, there are a number of Al Qaeda operations that didn't make the list, such as those I mentioned above. If he was just confessing to a string of Al Qaeda operations "to take one for the team" or because he was "tortured into confessing to them all", then why not add in those major operations as well?

I guess I am slow, because I can't figure out how a smiley is any kind of answer. To be clear, I'm asking for a reputable link that stated he was tortured at the hands of the CIA, because I haven't seen that.

Mohammed has been kept in controversial circumstances, most of the time in complete secrecy, since his capture in Pakistan in 2003. He has no access to a lawyer and allegations have been made that he was tortured while in US custody.

Human Rights Watch called Thursday for the United States to release a separate statement by Mohammed in which he claims to have been tortured while held by the CIA.

"It is a glaring misuse of the classification power for the government to classify information simply because it might be embarrassing or unlawful," Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, said in a statement.

"Mohammed's claims of torture should be investigated rather than concealed."

The White House has declined to comment on Mohammed's statements, saying it did not want to influence any legal proceedings.

Source - the quote is taken from about the middle of the article.

A chilling inheritance of terror
By Syed Saleem Shahzad

KARACHI - Ever since the frenzied shootout last month on September 11 in Karachi there have been doubts over whether Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the self-proclaimed head of al-Qaeda's military committee, died in the police raid on his apartment.

Certainly, another senior al-Qaeda figure, Ramzi Binalshibh, widely attributed as being the coordinator of the September 11 attacks on the United States a year earlier, was taken alive and handed over to the US. The latest information is that he is on a US warship somewhere in the Gulf.

Now it has emerged that Kuwaiti national Khalid Shaikh Mohammed did indeed perish in the raid, but his wife and child were taken from the apartment and handed over to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), in whose hands they remain.

Sources close to Pakistani intelligence agents say that the wife, under intense interrogation, has revealed information that is likely to lead to a new crackdown in Pakistan, as well as in Southeast Asia.

After the Taliban and al-Qaeda were routed in Afghanistan at the end of 2001, many fled to Pakistan to regroup and set up new cells. One of these, as described in Asia Times Online, From the al-Qaeda puzzle, a picture emerges, was in Karachi, with Khalid Shaikh Mohammed as its head.

Despite being tracked by informers within Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who has been described as "probably the only man who knows all the [al-Qaeda] pieces of the puzzle", always managed to remain one step ahead of any raiding parties in the slum areas along the coastal belt of Karachi.

However, it was then learned that Shaikh Mohammed had established connections with some local groups, including underworld figures, to entrench his cell. Using highly sensitive equipment, in April a call was tracked to someone by the name of Arif, living in the densely populated southwestern part of the city. Arif spoke to a Tunisian, passing on a message from Shaikh Mohammed. Subsequently, the Tunisian is believed to be the man who rammed a truck laden with explosives into a Jewish synagogue in Djerba in Tunisia in which many French and German citizens died.

After this suicide attack, the FBI were onto Shaikh Mohammed in a big way, and, no doubt not entirely without coincidence, on September 11 they decided on a showdown at the apartment of Shaikh Mohammed, his wife and child, in the Defense Housing Authority near Korangi Road. A number of Arabs were also living in the apartment at the time.

Initially, the joint ISI-FBI plan was to take Shaikh Mohammed alive so that he could be grilled, especially as he was believed to have knowledge of other al-Qaeda cells in Afghanistan, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen and elsewhere. However, as a plainclothed officer climbed the stairs toward the third-floor apartment, a hand grenade was thrown, and he retreated. Reinforcements then arrived, and for the next few hours a fierce gun battle blazed.

The FBI, still keen to take Shaikh Mohammed alive, teargassed the area, and a number of people were captured. However, despite instructions to the contrary, a few Pakistan Rangers entered the flat, where they found Shaikh Mohammed and another man, allegedly with their hands up. The Rangers nevertheless opened fire on the pair.

Later, the Pakistani press carried pictures of a message scrawled in blood on the wall of the flat, proclaiming the Muslim refrain of Kalma, in Arabic: "There is no God except Allah, Mohammed is his messenger"). An official who was present in the flat at the time of the shooting has told Asia Times Online that the message was written by Shaikh Mohammed with his own blood as his life drained from him.

Subsequently, to their surprise, the raiders learned that Ramzi Binalshibh had been netted in the swoop. And nothing further was said of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed.

But now it emerges that an Arab woman and a child were taken to an ISI safe house, where they identified the Shaikh Mohammed's body as their husband and father. The body was kept in a private NGO mortuary for 20 days before being buried, under the surveillance of the FBI, in a graveyard in the central district of Karachi.

The widow subsequently underwent exhaustive interrogation in the custody of FBI officials, during which she revealed details of people who visited her husband, and of his other contacts and plans. News of the death of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was intentionally suppressed so that officials could play on the power of his name to follow up leads and contacts.

From this it emerges that, in particular, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was in close contact with the Rabitatul Mujahideen, an alliance formed by Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiyah to act as a central committee for leaders of the various militant groups in Southeast Asia. He was also in touch with dissident groups within the Lashkar-i-Taiba, a Pakistani-based militant group that has been active in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) in Indian-administered Kashmir, and another Pakistani militia, the Ansarul Islam.

Intelligence officials now believe that through these links a new wave of terror will be unleashed - and officials have already taken the precaution to warn the intelligence agencies of friendly countries to check the lists of all people who have undergone flight training in the past six months: They have been led to believe that another World Trade Center/Pentagon attack is being planned, although not on a target in the US.

Hmmm. So is KSM dead or alive? This article from 2002 suggests the former.

HAH! What's next? We'll find out KSM is actually a CIA agent? The whole thing is just a ruse?

I wonder if Scooter Libby will be the one to reveal his true identity.
(Sarcasm, in case there is any doubt! Though our government has probably done weirder things...)

Huh?

Instead of doing another symantics dance here, let me just cut it off at the pass. My reason for bringing up the question is the fact that nearly everyone in this thread appears to be painting Khalid Sheikh Mohammed as a victim of abuse and torture at the hands of our government with absolutely no proof whatsoever

This disturbs me greatly.

In his confession, KSM claims, "I was responsible for planning, training, surveying, and financing for the New (or Second) Wave of attacks against the following skyscrapers after 9/11: ...Plaza Bank, Washington state."

KSM was arrested in March 2003. According to the Plaza Bank's website , the organization was founded in early 2006, making it impossible for KSM to have even known of the bank's existence before 2003, never mind plotted against it.

This grabbed my attention from the article...

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the September 11 attacks on the United States, has admitted responsibility for those and other major al Qaeda operations, according to the transcript of a hearing at Guantanamo Bay released on Wednesday.

What? All this time, I thought Bin Laden was supposed to be the alleged mastermind behind 9/11!!!!!

This really ticks me off! I've wasted over 5 years in a continual state of blind rage, hating the wrong guy!

Now I've gotta re-direct my blind rage to a new mastermind behind 9/11!!

When you finally decide on one boogyman, the absolute worst thing you can do is switch midstream to a new boogyman.

What? All this time, I thought Bin Laden was supposed to be the alleged mastermind behind 9/11!!!!!

This really ticks me off! I've wasted over 5 years in a continual state of blind rage, hating the wrong guy!

Now I've gotta re-direct my blind rage to a new mastermind behind 9/11!!

When you finally decide on one boogyman, the absolute worst thing you can do is switch midstream to a new boogyman.

This grabbed my attention from the article...

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the September 11 attacks on the United States, has admitted responsibility for those and other major al Qaeda operations, according to the transcript of a hearing at Guantanamo Bay released on Wednesday.

What? All this time, I thought Bin Laden was supposed to be the alleged mastermind behind 9/11!!!!!

This really ticks me off! I've wasted over 5 years in a continual state of blind rage, hating the wrong guy!

Now I've gotta re-direct my blind rage to a new mastermind behind 9/11!!

When you finally decide on one boogyman, the absolute worst thing you can do is switch midstream to a new boogyman.