Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: I was behind 9/11, transcript says

Here is the PDF transcripts of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Abu Faraj al-Libi and Ramzi Binalshibh (in that order):

http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2007/images/03/14/transcript_ISN10024.pdf

http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2007/images/03/14/transcript_ISN10017.pdf

http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2007/images/03/14/transcript_ISN10013.pdf

Source of article (and link to CNN video of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed):

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/15/guantanamo.mohammed/index.html?section=cnn_latest

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: I was behind 9/11, transcript says

Story Highlights

• Transcript is from Saturday hearing at Guantanamo; released by Pentagon
• Mohammed: "I was responsible for the 9/11 operation, from A to Z"
• Transcript says he's responsible for other attacks, including Bali bombing
• Mohammed is among 14 prisoners identified by U.S. as "high value"

From Mike Mount
CNN

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has admitted responsibility for the 9/11 attacks and a catalog of other terrorist acts, according to an edited transcript of a tribunal at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

"I was responsible for the 9/11 operation, from A to Z," Mohammed said Saturday through a U.S. military representative at the American base.

Mohammed said he planned, ran training and financed assassination operations against "several" former U.S. presidents including Jimmy Carter.

He said he designed strikes and trained attackers to destroy world-famous landmarks such as the Panama Canal, Chicago's Sears Tower and London's Big Ben.

He also acknowledged he was behind Richard Reid's attempted shoe bombing of an airliner over the Atlantic, the Bali, Indonesia, nightclub bombing and the 1993 World Trade Center attack. (Read transcript (PDF))

Mohammed takes responsibility for 29 operations, the transcript shows. Another claim is redacted from the public version. Mohammed also said he is partially responsible for an assassination attempt against Pope John Paul II while he was visiting the Philippines.

In the transcript, Mohammed acknowledged his role as top lieutenant to Osama bin Laden and likened himself to a revolutionary George Washington, although the document's verbatim translation isn't always clear. (Watch why Mohammed compares himself to WashingtonVideo)

"If now we were living in the Revolutionary War and George Washington he being arrested through Britain," it reads. "For sure he, they would consider him enemy combatant."

Mohammed: Sorry I killed kids

He made no apologies for what he has done, but he did express remorse for the death of children in the September 11 attacks.

"I don't like to kill people," he said. "I feel very sorry they been killed kids in 9/11."

Transcripts of two other detainees considered "high-value" by the U.S. government -- Abu Faraj al-Libi (transcript (PDF)) and Ramzi Binalshibh (transcript (PDF)) -- were also issued Wednesday. Their hearings were held Friday. The three are part of a group of 14 detainees once held in secret CIA prisons but moved to Guantanamo Bay by President Bush in September.

All three hearings were held at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo.

The three-member military panel hearings, unlike similar hearings in the past, were closed to the media and to the detainees' lawyers because of fears the detainees might divulge classified information, according to Pentagon officials.

Officials have said the hearings would last between two and three hours each, but it could take days or weeks to know what transpired, because the findings must be approved by higher military authorities.

The 14 detainees have been given military advisers but they are offering no legal assistance. Detainees are also given only an unclassified summary of the evidence against them but are allowed to have witnesses called in from out of the country to testify in their favor.

The hearings, called combatant status review tribunals, determine whether a detainee should be classified as an enemy combatant by the president to make them eligible for a military trial.

The hearings for the 14 are expected to last through April, according to Pentagon officials.

Pentagon officials said a total of six high-value detainees have now gone through these hearings. The names of the three others and the transcripts of their hearings have not yet been released.

Find this article at:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/15/guantanamo.mohammed/index.html?section=cnn_latest

Rosie O' Donnell is talking

Rosie O' Donnell is talking about KSM right now!!! Calling out the fact that he has been held since 2003, and that his alleged confessions were made absent any reporters present. She certainly does not buy it, and is making that known.

(Moved this post to KSM front page thread.)