Here's a big fat DUH: Officials: Mohammed exaggerated claims

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070315/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/terrorist_plots_3

Officials: Mohammed exaggerated claims

By KATHERINE SHRADER, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 38 minutes ago

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.

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Because of the torture, we don't know what he really did.

Torture isn't the path to justice.

All that happened were a flurry of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed jokes--like he was the father of Anne Nichole's baby, etc, which ran rampant here and on progressive talk radio. And then everyone went back to talking about Gonzales and the US Attorneys, with a side comment about how a person will say anything to stop torture.

This man supposedly confessed to everything nefarious from the Magna Carta and next week. This is so obviously a PITIFUL attempt to get the gonzales-US attorney firings off of the front page to anyone blind in one eye and unseeing in the other.

that they want to deny these suspects due process, and try them in secrecy, etc., because they know that there would be difficulty proving their case. All their evidence will be tainted.

If he is still alive and exists.



KSM only said yes after his represantative read those 31 claims

his reasons for tipping off the Secret Service that * was safe to set in a school during the whole attack?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,788431,00.html

I don't believe Fouda tortured KSM here, and he doesn't sound like a "coffee boy" either.

And before you bring it up, yes, Fouda released inaccurate info on when the interviews took place, in order to protect his life. It doesn't make him a liar any more than protecting an anonymous source makes any journalist inaccurate. bin al-Shibh's arrest just after the broadcast of the interview still put his life in peril.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article131678.ece