ever notice when one of theirs, lets say Newt Gringrich, gets into trouble-it is a "setup by the Dems"
NeoCONs sing a different tune when it suits their NWO desires-such as this convenient confession-during a White House and financial crisis...
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Guantanamo inmate claims beheading of Daniel Pearl
By Andrew Buncombe in Washington
Published: 16 March 2007
Among more than 30 attacks and plots allegedly confessed to by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed - the man long accused of organising the September 11 hijackings - was the beheading of journalist Daniel Pearl.

It emerged yesterday that the Pentagon had held back a portion of a 26-page transcript of a legal hearing at Guantanamo Bay in which Mohammed claimed he had personally murdered the Wall Street Journal reporter in 2002. The Pentagon said it had done so in order to have time to warn the journalist's family.

In the transcript, Mohammed told the tribunal: "I decapitated with my blessed right hand the head of the American Jew Daniel Pearl in the city of Karachi, Pakistan. For those who would like to confirm, there are pictures of me on the internet holding his head."

In all, according to the transcript - impossible to confirm because both the media and lawyers were refused entry to the hearing - Mohammed took responsibility for 31 attacks and plots around the world. Thousands of people died as a result of some of them though others never went beyond the planning stages.

He placed himself at the centre of the September 11 al-Qa'ida attacks on New York and Washington, claiming he was "responsible for the 9/11 operation from A-Z", the attacks on a nightclub in Bali as well as previously undisclosed assassination attempts on former presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter and Pope John Paul II. He also claimed responsibility for plots to attack Heathrow.

If genuine, the transcript provides the first public comments from Mr Mohammed since he was arrested in Pakistan in 2003 and passed to US authorities. In his remarks, made in broken English, to a panel assessing his status as a so-called enemy combatant, he expressed regret that children were killed in the 11 September attacks. He said Islam did not provide a "green light" to killing.

Yet he insisted al-Qa'ida and its leader, Osama bin Laden, were fighting a just war. "As Americans consider George Washington a hero, Muslims, many of them, are considering Osama bin Laden. He is doing the same thing. He is just fighting. He needs his independence." It is unclear to what extent the US authorities believe Mohammed's claims but there was a suggestion that officials deem some to be boasts.

Others pointed out that much of what Mohammed, known as KSM, claimed was already known. Richard Ben-Veniste, a member of the official commission that investigated the 9/11 attacks told US News & World Report: "I don't see anything new in what I have read about the 9/11 attacks and KSM's role."

Campaigners questioned the conditions under which Mohammed made his testimony. The transcript refers to a claim that he was tortured by the CIA but also says that he is speaking without "duress".

Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, told the Associated Press that it was impossible to know "unless there is an independent hearing".

Others questioned why the military had not released a recording of the hearing. Kyle Hence of the group 9/11 CitizensWatch said: "There is too much secrecy in the military tribunal process. In light of the many discrepancies surrounding the capture of KSM, and the fact that we have only seen two photos of the man since 2003 and not a single clip of video, the media should demand photos and video of the so-called mastermind of 9/11."