Architect of 9/11 Confesses to Role In Many Attacks

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Most people will read that he caused 9-11, and then stop reading before the torture part comes up.  I suppose if he starts admitting to killing JFK, then, maybe, people will realize that torture only gives the answers the torturer believes is true.

The press doesn't make this clear, but he goes to great pains to say that while he was indeed tortured by the CIA, he said he wasn't by the military. WTF.

[Raineyrocks]

 Confession of 9/11 architect backfires on US
By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles
Published: 18 March 2007

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's dramatic confessions before a US military hearing are beginning to backfire on the Bush administration. Legal experts are casting serious doubt about their validity as evidence, and human rights activists say they only illuminate a "sham process" of justice in the US war on terror, including the apparent use of torture on Mohammed and potentially dozens of other al-Qa'ida suspects.

Mohammed's claims to have been fully responsible for the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington, the murder of Daniel Pearl, the 2002 Bali disco bombings and a host of lesser plots, both hatched and fully realised, were made public to great fanfare last week.

Almost immediately, however, legal experts said he appeared to be exaggerating his role for his own self-aggrandisement and may also have deliberately floated false claims to send US investigators on wild goose chases.

The CIA denies that Mohammed was tortured, but evidence to the contrary has been building for years. Two years ago, a CIA official told ABC News that he had been water-boarded, and had won the admiration of his interrogators because it took him two to two-and-half minutes to start confessing - well beyond the average of 14 seconds observed in others.

[coffeeseven]

And he killed Jon Benet Ramsey.

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What is this? Where did it come from? It's some pretty shoddy "journalism," if indeed that's what it's supposed to be.

Confession of 9/11 architect backfires on US
By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles
Published: 18 March 2007

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's dramatic confessions before a US military hearing are beginning to backfire on the Bush administration. Legal experts are casting serious doubt about their validity as evidence, and human rights activists say they only illuminate a "sham process" of justice in the US war on terror, including the apparent use of torture on Mohammed and potentially dozens of other al-Qa'ida suspects.

Mohammed's claims to have been fully responsible for the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington, the murder of Daniel Pearl, the 2002 Bali disco bombings and a host of lesser plots, both hatched and fully realised, were made public to great fanfare last week.

Almost immediately, however, legal experts said he appeared to be exaggerating his role for his own self-aggrandisement and may also have deliberately floated false claims to send US investigators on wild goose chases.

The CIA denies that Mohammed was tortured, but evidence to the contrary has been building for years. Two years ago, a CIA official told ABC News that he had been water-boarded, and had won the admiration of his interrogators because it took him two to two-and-half minutes to start confessing - well beyond the average of 14 seconds observed in others.

[Raineyrocks]

Geesh sorry, here's the link:

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2368990.ece

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Geesh sorry, here's the link:

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2368990.ece

Yep, shoddy "journalism".

[Russell Kanning]

sounds reasonable to me

[Lloyd Danforth]

Have they asked him about all of the 'missing socks'?   How about Judge Crater?