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March 15, 2007       Share:    

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/15/us/15gitmo.html

Suspected Leader of 9/11 Attacks Confesses

[New York Times] Adam Liptak - Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, long said to be the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, confessed to them at a military hearing held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Saturday, according to a transcript released by the Pentagon Wednesday. Mohammed described himself as the "military operational commander for all foreign operations around the world" for al-Qaeda, and took responsibility for the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center and the 2002 bombing of a nightclub in Bali. He also outlined a vast series of plots that were not completed. Among his targets were office buildings in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York; suspension bridges in New York; the New York Stock Exchange; the Panama Canal; British landmarks including Big Ben; buildings in Israel; American embassies in Indonesia, Australia and Japan; Israeli embassies in India, Azerbaijan, the Philippines and Australia; airliners around the world; and nuclear power plants in the U.S.; as well as assassination plots against former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton and Pope John Paul II.

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