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Gee, you really think so? I did rather suspect that that bit about shooting Abraham Lincoln was just a trifle over the top. "Officials: Mohammed exaggerated claims," by Katherine Shrader for Associated Press:
WASHINGTON - Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's claims that he was responsible for dozens of successful, foiled and imagined attacks in the past 15 years relies on a loose definition of the word "responsible." Officials say the 9/11 mastermind was key to some plots but a bit player in others.The 31 on his list range from the stunningly vicious suicide hijackings of Sept. 11, 2001, to others that current and former government officials say were more talk than concrete plans, such as a plot to kill Jimmy Carter and other former U.S. presidents.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity, noting Mohammed's activities are likely to be the subject of an upcoming military tribunal.
His confession, his first public statement since his March 2003 capture in Pakistan, came in a closed-door hearing in the newly established U.S. tribunal process. A 26-page transcript of the Saturday session at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was made public Wednesday night.
While there apparently is truth in much of the statement, several officials said, there's also an element of self-promotion. They view the claims as at least in part a rallying cry to bolster his image and that of al-Qaida in the only venue Mohammed has left: a military courtroom from which the public is barred.
"I have never known a criminal — either terrorist or otherwise — that didn't exaggerate," said Michigan Rep. Mike Rogers, a former
FBI agent and the top Republican on the terrorism panel of the House Intelligence Committee.
Posted by Robert at March 15, 2007 7:06 PM
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Link to transcript -posted yesterday (below) didn't seem to work.
For those interested, this (direct) link may work:
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/
transcript_ISN10024.pdf
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at March 15, 2007 7:25 PM
Osama must be pissed that this guy is taking credit for everything!
OT: I'm surprised the Muslims haven't taken American hostages and demanded the release of the "folks" at Gitmo. Matter of time.
Posted by: Bingo at March 15, 2007 7:34 PM
Rosie O'Donnell suggested that the U.S. tortured him to come up with a confession. I don't think Khalid views his statements as a confession. He is just using this as a forum to brag about his exploits to make him more of a Jihadi superhero.
Posted by: DavidE at March 15, 2007 7:40 PM
Yes...but if you keep the public focused on one man and one group...they won't see the real danger..and the sheep are easy to lead...Islam is the enemy...not a man or a group.
Posted by: storagemanager at March 15, 2007 7:43 PM
I think maybe sasquatch is going to try an insanity plea. Makes sense.
at March 15, 2007 7:53 PM
Even before nabbed, KSM made a film boasting about his role in the 9/11 attack. For my money, they ought to choke the bastard with liquified lard and be done with it.
Posted by: Kepha at March 15, 2007 8:14 PM
Give Rosie an unabridged collection of Qur'an and ahaditha and ship to Gitmo. I am so sick of her stupid mouth!
at March 15, 2007 8:48 PM
He's telling them exactly what they want to hear.
I can imagine the line of questioning revolving completely around Al-Qaeda, Bin Laden and the whole "tiny minority of extremists" angle.
It just doesn't seem to have dawned on our intelligence elite yet, that jihad involves Islam generally and is not limited to Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda and a handful of directly related terrorist organizations.
Posted by: Mike_W at March 15, 2007 8:55 PM
Catawhumpus is in my view correct, mike_w grossly wrong. What this man is doing is calling on himself the responsibility for everything and anything in order to cover up for fellow jihadis who are still free. He knows he will never get out of Gitmo alive, so he is trying to make sure that as many colleagues and collaborators as possible cannot be fingered. This is not a novel strategy - Goering tried it at Nuremberg, for instance. The Daniel Pearl claim is particularly symptomatic, if it is true, as Bernard-Henry Levy argues, that Pearl was killed because he was getting too close to one of the dirtiest secrets of the secret war - the cooperation between jihadi terrorists and Pakistan's secret services.
Posted by: Paolo at March 16, 2007 3:21 AM
I saw Rosie on "The View" today and was a bit taken aback by her knee jerk reaction to the Khalid Sheik Mohammed story. She contends that we have no way of knowing if KSM's confession was coerced or not. Regarding his role in the 911 plot, we know for sure that it wasn't. How? In 2002, al Jazeera broadcast a documentary called, "Top Secret: The Road to 911". The film was produced by al Jazeera London bureau chief, Yosri Fouda. Fouda interviewed KSM at a safe house in Pakistan where KSM admitted to being the mastermind of the 911 plot. This was several months before KSM was captured and put in US custody.
Here is a link to an interview with Fouda in which he discusses the documentary and KS
http://www.tbsjournal.com/Archives/Fall02/Fouda.html
Hope this clears the matter up. Of course, as the Chinese say: "You can't wake up a man pretending to be asleep".
Regards,
okkat
Posted by: okkat at March 16, 2007 4:52 AM
I am wondering if I can get this guy to take the rap on some "youthful indiscretions" I might have done..
Posted by: payingattention at March 16, 2007 5:02 AM
"mike_w grossly wrong"
Posted by: Paolo
Lol, not wrong but "grossly wrong".
The possibility that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed told his interrogators what they wanted to hear and his also taking responsibility for many acts of terrorism to protect fellow Islamic jihadists, are not mutually exclusive.
at March 16, 2007 6:10 AM
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