Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: I killed Daniel Pearl

For his part in the Pearl killing he says there is photographic evidence. And there may be. But he is still straining credulity here. After all, he also brought down the Towers. And masterminded the Bali bombing. And on and on. If they don't rein him in soon, he will be claiming responsibility for the Mahdi uprising in Sudan in the late 19th century, and Saladin's defeat of Richard Coeur de Leon. And I'm pretty sure that he single-handedly defeated the Quraysh at the Battle of Badr.

"9/11 mastermind admits killing reporter," by Katherine Shrader for Associated Press:

WASHINGTON - Suspected 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed confessed to the beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl and a central role in 30 other attacks and plots in the U.S. and worldwide that killed thousands of victims, said a revised transcript released Thursday by the U.S. military.
"I decapitated with my blessed right hand the head of the American Jew, Daniel Pearl, in the city of Karachi, Pakistan," Mohammed is quoted as saying in a transcript of a military hearing at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, released by the Pentagon.

"For those who would like to confirm, there are pictures of me on the Internet holding his head," he added.

Mohammed's claimed involvement in the 2002 slaying of the Wall Street Journal reporter was among 31 attacks and plots — some of which never occurred — he took responsibility for in a hearing Saturday at the U.S. naval prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the Pentagon said.

It released the bulk of the transcript late Wednesday, but held back the section about Pearl's killing to allow time for his family to be notified, said Defense Department spokesman Bryan Whitman.

The Associated Press reported Wednesday that it had learned that the transcripts released Wednesday evening had blacked out the reference to Mohammed's confession about the Pearl slaying. Pearl was abducted in January 2002 in Pakistan while researching a story on Islamic militancy. Mohammed has long been a suspect in the slaying, which was captured on video.

Sealing a legacy of historical notoriety, Mohammed portrayed himself as al-Qaida's most ambitious operational planner in a confession to a U.S. military tribunal that said he planned and supported a series of terrorist attacks, topped by 9/11. The gruesome attacks range from the suicide hijackings of Sept. 11, 2001 — which killed nearly 3,000 — to a 2002 shooting on an island off Kuwait that killed a U.S. Marine, according to an account released by the Pentagon.

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16 Comments

XRDC | March 15, 2007 2:10 PM

KSM must be the Jihadi version of this guy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourist_guy

-XRDC

alexon | March 15, 2007 2:12 PM

I think he kidnapped the Lindbergh baby too!

poetcomic1 | March 15, 2007 2:24 PM

Of course he did all these while working for the CIA and the Zionist International Conspiracy who wanted a pretext for Bush's tremendously successful invasion of the Mideast.

Steven L. | March 15, 2007 2:26 PM

As we've learned from experience handling captured terrorists at Gitmo, the terrorists don't abandon their jihad even in captivity.

My guess is that KSM is "confessing" to nearly everything, in hopes that the U.S. authorities will decide that all those cases are now solved and won't continue to go after the real masterminds of those other cases.

But it won't wash.

Somebody else, somebody real important, is evidently hiding out in the new sanctuary in Waziristan.

wrathofasma | March 15, 2007 2:30 PM

Later on, he will say he confessed to every crime on the book because the mean ol' Americans tortured him. So that's why he's keeping up this ruse.

Ynkedoodl2 | March 15, 2007 2:31 PM

Mohammed is quoted as saying in a transcript of a military hearing at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, released by the Pentagon:

"I decapitated with my blessed right hand the head of the American Jew, Daniel Pearl, in the city of Karachi, Pakistan,"

Now, quote me:

"With my blessed right hand I would give every cent I have for the privilege of hacking off the head of this vile, fat, Mohammaden."

Golly gee, I've become Islamophobic! How the heck did that happen?

exsgtbrown | March 15, 2007 2:32 PM

He was in Pakistan at the time of the Peal tradgety..what if he is telling the truth....

Ban Muslim Immigration.

rational | March 15, 2007 2:50 PM

I think Mohammed is setting himself for an insanity defense. And it'll probably work.

Lame Cherry | March 15, 2007 3:07 PM

People are missing the mindset in this Mr. Spencer of the Middle East.

To quote a Biblical verse, Saul has killed his thousands and David his tens of thousands", reveals the mindset of Pharoahs to Persian Presidents in they take credit for everything if they happen to be even on the fringe of the event.

It empowers them and instead of an army killing thousands, it is the leader who takes all credit in doing it alone.
It is not bragging, but simply a psychopathy of empowerment like Pharoahs sluffing off the names of previous kings on Temples and putting their own names on them.

champ | March 15, 2007 3:40 PM

Khalid must be trying to cash-in on 72 more virgins.

Infidel Pride | March 15, 2007 4:18 PM

On the Pearl beheading, he may well be correct - at the time, it was thought that he personally cut off Pearl's head. Sorta like Zarqawi.

Somehow, I doubt he's straining any credulity.

infidel! | March 15, 2007 4:20 PM

KSM also killed JFK. ASFA the 72 young boy virgins, sheep, piglets - whatever awaits them, he is leaving that to others. Like Hussein - he is a coward.

payingattention | March 15, 2007 4:31 PM

Yah this guy does bear a striking similarity to Lord Lucan + 100 pounds.

But seriously isn't that what you anticipate when you beat a confession out of someone, that they will admit everything?

Or is it just his vain hope of taking the rap for everything and helping his mates?

Infidel Pride | March 15, 2007 4:55 PM

payingattention

If he was water-boarded, one would expect him to spill his guts out not just about his role in various crimes, but also who else was behind them, and who else is still at large and plotting new crimes. Your third point is directly contradicted by the second - he was 'tortured' (boo-hoo), and is unlikely to be capable of holding back anything. Particularly now, given that they're releasing his transcripts, they're probably doing it because they're convinced that they've got whatever they need out of him, and that he's by now trial-worthy.

option nine | March 15, 2007 4:58 PM

Iwas wondering whether Khalid Sheikh Mohammed had admitted to killing JFK yet. Like all jihadists, he is deranged! He looks alot like sasquatch too.

TexasInfidel | March 16, 2007 1:00 AM

He also fathered Anna Nicole's baby!

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