9/11 mastermind confesses in Guantanamo

WASHINGTON - Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, confessed to that attack and a string of others during a military hearing at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to a transcript released Wednesday by the Pentagon.

Mohammed claimed responsibility for planning, financing, and training others for bombings ranging from the 1993 attack at the World Trade Center to the attempt by would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid to blow up a trans-Atlantic flight with explosives hidden in his shoes.
9/11 mastermind confesses in Guantanamo - Yahoo! News


LMAO! Now don't some of you people feel a bit foolish? Come on now.....lets hear the Alex Jones version.

By the way.......ya see, 9-11 material goes in here. :thumbsup:

Have a good one!:s4:

Great news! This shows the naysayers that there was an important purpose to the holding facility at Guantanamo Bay.

From Times Online
March 15, 2007

9/11 mastermind 'confesses to planning attacks'

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed made his admission during a hearing at Guantanamo Bay according to a Pentagon transcript

Tim Reid, Washington


The suspected mastermind of the September 11 2001 terror attacks has confessed publicly for the first time to the atrocity during an unprecedented military trial at Guantanamo Bay.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who was moved from a secret CIA prison to the US naval base on Cuba in September, admitted to planning, financing and training the 19 hijackers who carried out the attacks on the US, according to tribunal transcripts released by the Pentagon.

"I was responsible for the 9/11 operation, from A to Z," claimed a statement in his name which was read out by a US military officer representing him at the hearing. The confession was read with Sheikh Mohammed present.

He also claimed responsibility for a host of other terrorist attacks and plots, including the financing and training of the failed British shoebomber Richard Reid, the 1993 attack on New York's World Trade Centre and the bombing of a nightclub in Bali, Indonesia in 2002.

The statement said he had plotted a second wave of attacks following the September 11 strikes with hijacked airliners.

The targets were to have been the Library Tower in California, the Sears Tower in Chicago, the Plaza Bank in Washington State and the Empire State Building in New York, according to the transcript.

Sheikh Mohammed, who is believed to have been at Osama bin Laden's side during the September 11 attacks, is the most senior al-Qaeda figure to have been arrested since 2001. He was captured in Pakistan in March 2003. He is one of three top al-Qaeda figures to go before secret military tribunals at Guantanamo that began last week.

9/11 mastermind 'confesses to planning attacks'-News-World-US & Americas-TimesOnline

This proves nothing. In the 1950s the CIA began a mind control research program called MKULTRA. I will simplify it. What they did was, lie to american citizens, take them to a secret prisons/undisclosed locations, then they proceeded to dose them with extremely high doses of LSD for six or so months, lock them in very small cells for months upon months playing tapes such as " I killed my mother". After this the indiviuals actually did think they killed their mother. Fascinating stuff. This is all documented folks. Anyway, they also mass sleep deprieved their patients, electroconvulsive therapy, and engaged in much more torture techniques.

After torturing the patient, the indiviual had been through so much trauma they could literally not even remember their own name. The scientists than began to reprogram them, and they could get the indiviual to say/believe anything they wanted them to. That was in the 1950s, now of days mind control is much more sophisticated. This confession proves absolutley nothing, especially since he has been in a secret prison for 4 years.


And does anyone else notice the mainstream media is ALL over this story? Front page and cover story of both FOXNEWS and CNN. They don't even MENTION, not even an article about the North American Union. Exception is Lou Dobbs because he has a clause in his contract which states he can do his own material. They don't talk about bush signing a formal agreement that will merge canada,mexico and the United States. They don't talk about the REAL ID act which is a national ID card with an RFID chip. Can anyone ARGUE, or make a case that the big media institutions and the government are not working together to suppress the people? And that is the defintion of fascism folks. All they talk about is American Idol, Paris Hilton, and how Al-Qaeda is going to get us if we don't give up all our freedoms.

Also, CNN was caught with officers from the Army's Psychological Operations (PSYOPS) working in their news room a few years back. Yet, no one talks about it. It's really sad how we've become so dummed-down the only issues we talk about is what we see on TV, which is controlled by government.


Bottom Line- Wake up people, There is no hoax that you won't believe.

pwn U make a lot of sense. im really high and U just made me think a lot

Well, that proves it. After 5 years of detention and likely torture he finally admitted his wrongdoing.

Anybody here would've confessed long ago if subjected to the same treatment. This guy lasted 5 years.

"You spin me right round, baby
Right round like a record, baby
Right round round round" - Dead or Alive

Prison Planet now has a hugh artical on this.. Longer then I want to post and im sure even if I did PH would just post it again in its entirety. I still need to learn how he can copy/paste and keep the markup coding.

The following below does not in anyway state my views or opinions. Read rest on the link.

KSM: The Ultimate Patsy "Confesses"
Go back to sleep, you can trust a press release from a heavily redacted secret military tribunal of a tortured detainee conducted by individuals representative of an oligarchy whose every deception, gross violation of U.S. law, and act of imperial bloodletting over the last six years rests on maintaining the orthodoxy of the official 9/11 myth

But since Khalid has squealed on the "A to Z" of 9/11, perhaps he can provide some answers to a few troubling little questions that still have us 9/11 "conspiracy nuts" running around in circles;

- Was Khalid Shaikh Mohammed responsible for the FBI ordering the 1993 World Trade Center bombing to go ahead? In his confession, KSM says he ran the attack but fails to explain why it was the FBI who provided the terror cell with the bomb materials through their informant.

- Was Khalid Shaikh Mohammed responsible for NORAD completely reversing its standard operating procedure on the day of 9/11?

- Was Khalid Shaikh Mohammed responsible for the collapse of three steel buildings, one that was not hit by a plane, from fire damage alone for the first and only time in history?

- Was Khalid Shaikh Mohammed responsible for warning, according to Newsweek, a group of top Pentagon officials to cancel their flights on the evening of September 10th due to security concerns?

- Was Khalid Shaikh Mohammed responsible for the record number of 'put' options, speculation that the stock of a company will fall, that were placed on American and United Airlines in the days preceding September 11th? This despite a September 10th Reuters report stating 'airline stocks set to fly.'

- Was Khalid Shaikh Mohammed responsible for blocking FBI anti-terrorism investigations before 9/11 related to the bin Laden family and Saudi charities that were front groups for Al-Qaeda?

- Was Khalid Shaikh Mohammed responsible for advising the Secret Service not to remove President Bush from a completely unsecured Florida elementary school by letting them know he wasn't a target on 9/11?

This really doesn’t contradict my beliefs.

didn't osama do it? Now it was someone else?

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didn't osama do it? Now it was someone else?

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Bin laden and Khalid are in the same club.


He (Khalid Sheikh Mohammed) also said some people "consider George Washington as hero. Muslims many of them are considering Osama bin Laden. He is doing same thing. He is just fighting. He needs his independence."

9/11 Mastermind Admits Killing Reporter :: WRAL.com


"I decapitated with my blessed right hand the head of the American Jew, Daniel Pearl, in the city of Karachi, Pakistan," Mohammed is quoted as saying in a transcript of a military hearing at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, released by the Pentagon.

"For those who would like to confirm, there are pictures of me on the Internet holding his head," he added.

SheikTranscript

9/11 Mastermind Admits Killing Reporter

Suspected 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed confessed to the beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl and a central role in 30 other attacks and plots in the U.S. and worldwide that killed thousands of victims, said a revised transcript released Thursday by the U.S. military.

"I decapitated with my blessed right hand the head of the American Jew, Daniel Pearl, in the city of Karachi, Pakistan," Mohammed is quoted as saying in a transcript of a military hearing at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, released by the Pentagon.

"For those who would like to confirm, there are pictures of me on the Internet holding his head," he added.

Mohammed's claimed involvement in the 2002 slaying of the Wall Street Journal reporter was among 31 attacks and plots _ some of which never occurred _ he took responsibility for in a hearing Saturday at the U.S. naval prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the Pentagon said.

It released the bulk of the transcript late Wednesday, but held back the section about Pearl's killing to allow time for his family to be notified, said Defense Department spokesman Bryan Whitman.

The Associated Press reported Wednesday that it had learned that the transcripts released Wednesday evening had blacked out the reference to Mohammed's confession about the Pearl slaying. Pearl was abducted in January 2002 in Pakistan while researching a story on Islamic militancy. Mohammed has long been a suspect in the slaying, which was captured on video.

Sealing a legacy of historical notoriety, Mohammed portrayed himself as al-Qaida's most ambitious operational planner in a confession to a U.S. military tribunal that said he planned and supported a series of terrorist attacks, topped by 9/11. The gruesome attacks range from the suicide hijackings of Sept. 11, 2001 _ which killed nearly 3,000 _ to a 2002 shooting on an island off Kuwait that killed a U.S. Marine, according to an account released by the Pentagon.

Many plots, including a previously undisclosed plan to kill several former U.S. presidents, were never carried out or were foiled by international counterterror authorities.

"I was responsible for the 9/11 operation from A to Z," Mohammed said in a statement read Saturday during a Combatant Status Review Tribunal at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Mohammed's confession was read by a member of the U.S. military who is serving as his personal representative.

The Pentagon had released a 26-page transcript of the closed-door proceedings on Wednesday night. Some material was omitted, and it wasn't possible to immediately verify details. The document refers to locations for which the United States and other nations have issued terrorism warnings based on what they deemed credible threats from 1993 to the present.

Whitman said authorities would decide how credible it is that Mohammed participated in so many plots if he is tried by a military tribunal, which many expect will eventually happen.

"These are his words." Whitman said.

Mohammed, known as KSM among government officials, was last seen haggard after his capture in March 2003, when he was photographed in a dingy white T-shirt with an over-stretched neck. He disappeared for more than three years into a secret detention system run by the CIA.

In his first public statements since his capture, his radical ideology and self-confidence came through. He expressed regret for taking the lives of children and said Islam doesn't give a "green light" to killing.

Yet he finds room for exceptions. "The language of the war is victims," he said.

He also said some people "consider George Washington as hero. Muslims many of them are considering Osama bin Laden. He is doing same thing. He is just fighting. He needs his independence."

In laying out his role in 31 attacks, his words drew al-Qaida closer to plots of the early 1990s than the group has previously been linked, including the 1993 World Trade Center truck bombing in which six people died.

Six people with links to global terror networks were convicted in federal court and sentenced to life in prison for that attack.

Mohammed made clear that al-Qaida wanted to down a second trans-Atlantic aircraft during would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid's operation.

President Bush announced that Mohammed and 13 other alleged terror operatives had been moved from secret CIA prisons to the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay last year. They are considered the 14 most significant captures since 9/11.

The military began the hearings last Friday to determine whether the 14 should be declared "enemy combatants" who can be held indefinitely and prosecuted by military tribunals.

If the 14 are declared enemy combatants, as expected, the military would then draft and file charges against them. The detainees would be tried under the new military commissions law signed by Bush in October.

The military barred reporters or other independent observers from the sessions for the 14 operatives and is limiting the information it provides about them, arguing that it wants to prevent the disclosure of sensitive information.

Legal experts have criticized the U.S. decision, and The Associated Press filed a letter of protest, arguing that it would be "an unconstitutional mistake to close the proceedings in their entirety."

The transcripts refer to a claim by Mohammed that he was tortured by the CIA, although he said he was not under duress at Guantanamo when he confessed to his role in the attacks. The CIA has said its interrogation practices are legal, and it does not use torture.

Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, questioned the legality of the closed-door sessions and whether the confession was actually the result of torture.

"We won't know that unless there is an independent hearing," he said. "We need to know if this purported confession would be enough to convict him at a fair trial or would it have to be suppressed as the fruit of torture?"

In listing the 28 attacks he planned and another three he supported, Mohammed said he tried to kill international leaders including Pope John Paul II, President Clinton and Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf.

He said he planned the 2002 bombing of a Kenya beach resort frequented by Israelis and the failed missile attack on an Israeli passenger jet after it took off from Mombasa, Kenya.

He also said he was responsible for the bombing of a nightclub in Bali, Indonesia. In 2002, 202 were killed when two nightclubs there were bombed.

Other plots he said he was responsible for included planned attacks against the Sears Tower in Chicago, the Empire State Building and New York Stock Exchange in New York City, the Panama Canal, and Big Ben and Heathrow Airport in London _ none of which happened.

The Pentagon also released transcripts of the hearings of Abu Faraj al-Libi and Ramzi Binalshibh. Both refused to attended the hearings, although al-Libi submitted a statement claiming that the hearings are unfair and that he will not attend unless it is corrected.

"The detainee is in a lose-lose situation," he said.

Al-Libi, whose name means he is a Libyan, reportedly masterminded two bombings 11 days apart in Pakistan in December 2003 that targeted Musharraf for his support of the U.S.-led war on terror.

Binalshibh, a Yemeni, is suspected of helping Mohammed with the 9/11 attack plan on New York City and Washington and is also linked to a foiled plot to crash aircraft into London's Heathrow Airport. His hearing was conducted in his absence.

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Associated Press writers Pauline Jelinek, Lolita C. Baldor and Matthew Lee contributed to this report.

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Laughed soo hard when i heard about this....my first thought was SOLD! Whos the first to buy this crap from our peace-loving do no wrong government......whats that saying by GW something about fooling certain people all the time....Hey if we HAD a trustworthy government i may buy it toooo, but thats not the case here

Hey i bet they gonna blame it Iran

Hey if my kids were kidnap by the most evil monster in the world i to would confess to something i didnt do, and being water-boarded

CIA holds young sons of captured al-Qa'eda chief
CIA holds young sons of captured al-Qa'eda chief | Afghanistan | Asia | International News | News | Telegraph

i wonder if he will confess to being ANS baby daddy

I thought you would have been linking him to Bush in some Jonesistic way. Just as in the days of Rome the persecution can't seem to stop!:S2:

Have a good one!:s4:

Yeah Gw anything but a savior, maybe;) ( zimzums has me thinking wild thoughts now)

Jonesistic--LoL

:S2: Hey eg.........any relation?
KSM Confesses to Murder, Rosie Worries He Was 'Tortured' | NewsBusters.org

Have a good one!:s4:

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Well, that proves it. After 5 years of detention and likely torture he finally admitted his wrongdoing.

Anybody here would've confessed long ago if subjected to the same treatment. This guy lasted 5 years.

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Yea I think its bullshit.. You know those poor guys aren't left alone. I've heard alot about that crap, some from visitors at a local college in response to that movie about GB. They verified treatment and close to that same time, they were moving people out of there. And alot of talk was in the air about GB.
I think we treat people like shit. Thing is our intelligence is so BS. (You can argue it but look at all the intelligence we got and didn't do shit about, then stuff happens and they wanna go torture and force confessions because we didn't do what we should have done in the first place with information. Fuck Rice, Fuck Bush, Fuck al those people, To all those that lost lives in this for nothing war, Bush you and your admin are such fuck ups, its amazing sometimes I feel like we're in a fucking reality show. CALL THE DRAFT! I'll move to canada. Or Mexico sheeit. I'm a patriot not a puppet. The USA seems to no longer exist. Its USA Inc. If you're not an employee you must be a terrorist.. Excuse me... Islamic Extremist. Or Middle Eastern Bomb Guy

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This really doesnâ??t contradict my beliefs.

didn't osama do it? Now it was someone else?

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Osama who??

Anyone else feel like Bush is just acting all the time?? I know its not a texas thing... But hey I never been there so I dun know. Whats with the "cocky heh heh" he puts out. Is this what people like? Is this what people follow now??
RIGGED its all RIGGED. Lets split up the US again and the conservs can live on one and the libs on another... That would fix Everything =D

lol, I saw this story on MSNBC at school...first thing that came to mind..ron jeremy? found out it was iraqi guy or whatever but still resembles him eh?

anyone who believes the news is a complete fool. see the events, know the history, and draw your own conclusions.

If i was tortured for 5 fucking years i would confess to anything and everything in order not to be tortured any more. That is why torture does not work. You torture someone long and hard enough and they will confess whether they did it or not.

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If i was tortured for 5 fucking years i would confess to anything and everything in order not to be tortured any more. That is why torture does not work. You torture someone long and hard enough and they will confess whether they did it or not.

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They have to show his confession as a justification for holding him for interrogation. He's one of the top terrorists in the world, if not the main one, and knew better than anyone about what was in the works. This strategy may have been successful, since we haven't had another attack on American soil since 9/11.

If we had tried, convicted and executed him 4 years ago who knows what might have happened.

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lol, I saw this story on MSNBC at school...first thing that came to mind..ron jeremy? found out it was iraqi guy or whatever but still resembles him eh?

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LOL Yes! I thought he looked familiar but I couldn't think of it. Haha, they captured Ron Jeremy, the terrorist is still free!

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They have to show his confession as a justification for holding him for interrogation. He's one of the top terrorists in the world, if not the main one, and knew better than anyone about what was in the works. This strategy may have been successful, since we haven't had another attack on American soil since 9/11.

If we had tried, convicted and executed him 4 years ago who knows what might have happened.

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hahahahahahah

so there is no way 10 terrorists could of sneaked in with the 4 million mexicans these last couple of years?


no way a pound of anthrax could not have been brought over here in the 500 tons of coke these last couple of years?


saying we are safe from anyone at anytime is kinda like the government saying "kids, drugs are bad, go have a cig instead"


dude, i always said that when people say that bush/whoever is keeping us safe , then i would have meet someone with NO common sense at all.

congrats on sounding like a moron, you ever lived in arizona?

you ever see the steady stream of fuckers crossing the boarder?

you might be safe in iowa, but the us is not safe, nor will it ever be.

the only reason we have not been attacked again, is because we have (meaning losers like you) been so easy to give up our freedoms.

we will be attacked again

when that happens, look for chips/tracking/etc

to go into effect, cause if everyone can be tracked, we might be safe then huh?


wake up

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This strategy may have been successful, since we haven't had another attack on American soil since 9/11..

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and this is some kind of evidence?

ps- anthrax was only found twice! sent to two politicians , one of who was against the patriot act; dropped this stance just a day after getting the letter

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and this is some kind of evidence?

ps- anthrax was only found twice! sent to two politicians , one of who was against the patriot act; dropped this stance just a day after getting the letter

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Who said anything about anthrax? We're talking about the Sheik.

Besides, the association between Islamic terrorism and anthrax is not established. If you've got a theory just say it, and please stop beating around the bush (no pun intended)!

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Who said anything about anthrax? We're talking about the Sheik.

Besides, the association between Islamic terrorism and anthrax is not established. If you've got a theory just say it, and please stop beating around the bush (no pun intended)!

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the fact remians, i have yet to see you or anyone else, respond to the facts, without linking a popular mechs site or some other government do boy info.

i mean who really believe these people would tell us?

let's just say someone in nsa found out, which one of you(if you were the nsa agent) would risk, your life, your family's life, to tell the american public, who like ba over there, would not believe you for a min?

show of hands please?

yeah not a f-ing one of you, i would not do it either.

bottom line to all this is that there is no way that it went down the way they say it did.

bottom line...


i got info/stats/facts for days and not one of you flag waveing wanna be patriots can debate my points for shit.

KSM -

"I was responsible for planning, training, surveying and financing the new (or second) wave attacks against the following skyscrapers after 9/11: Library Tower, California, Sears Tower, Chicago, Plaza Bank, Washington state, and The Empire State Building, New York City."

According to Plaza Banks offical webpage the bank was founded in 2006. Plaza Bank


Looks like the pentagon caught in a web of lies again. No word from the mainstream media.....:(

:D lol

and from A to Z<----still laughing at that one

Wow, keep believing all the crap fed to you by the government instead of looking at the facts.

'Plaza Bank' In Seattle Was Target, 9/11 Mastermind Says - News
The article ablove says one of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's targets was the Plaza Bank. The Plaza Bank was founded in early 2006 according to their website Plaza Bank. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed confessed to trying to bomb a bank that wasn't founded until after he was detained.


Edit: damn I just realized this was pointed out allready! :(

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Wow, keep believing all the crap fed to you by the government instead of looking at the facts.

'Plaza Bank' In Seattle Was Target, 9/11 Mastermind Says - News
The article ablove says one of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's targets was the Plaza Bank. The Plaza Bank was founded in early 2006 according to their website Plaza Bank. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed confessed to trying to bomb a bank that wasn't founded until after he was detained.


Edit: damn I just realized this was pointed out allready! :(

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I am a definate skeptic to everything that comes out of mainstream news...
but using the bank wasn founded until 2006 hiccup isnt enough because the building itself was built in the 80's...

HistoryLink Essay: Columbia Center, tallest building in Pacific Northwest, opens doors on March 2, 1985.

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I am a definate skeptic to everything that comes out of mainstream news...
but using the bank wasn founded until 2006 hiccup isnt enough because the building itself was built in the 80's...

HistoryLink Essay: Columbia Center, tallest building in Pacific Northwest, opens doors on March 2, 1985.

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It depends if he said the building, or Plaza Bank. I wasn't there for the alleged confession so I can't say. I am only pointing out the media flaws :thumbsup: I really do try to see both sides of everything but I can't help but side with the conspiracists on this one. I'm not even sure wheather to believe global warming or not.

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It depends if he said the building, or Plaza Bank. I wasn't there for the alleged confession so I can't say. I am only pointing out the media flaws :thumbsup: I really do try to see both sides of everything but I can't help but side with the conspiracists on this one. I'm not even sure wheather to believe global warming or not.

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He said the plaza bank. There is NO way he would have known the building was now the "plaza bank" unless he was informed. Considering he was in Cuba in a secret prison, that is very doubtful. Face it folks, the war on terror is a hoax, so is global warming.

Obviously he is a component in the whole thing..part of a C.I.A. operation to the braindead like yourself.. they deceive people like you, people too stupid to see past their game plans, people who are ignorant of their past history of deceiving people like you. People like you would be the first to give Hitler a Seig Heil in Nazi Germany. Stay blind.

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This proves nothing. In the 1950s the CIA began a mind control research program called MKULTRA. I will simplify it. What they did was, lie to american citizens, take them to a secret prisons/undisclosed locations, then they proceeded to dose them with extremely high doses of LSD for six or so months, lock them in very small cells for months upon months playing tapes such as " I killed my mother". After this the indiviuals actually did think they killed their mother. Fascinating stuff. This is all documented folks. Anyway, they also mass sleep deprieved their patients, electroconvulsive therapy, and engaged in much more torture techniques.

After torturing the patient, the indiviual had been through so much trauma they could literally not even remember their own name. The scientists than began to reprogram them, and they could get the indiviual to say/believe anything they wanted them to. That was in the 1950s, now of days mind control is much more sophisticated. This confession proves absolutley nothing, especially since he has been in a secret prison for 4 years.


And does anyone else notice the mainstream media is ALL over this story? Front page and cover story of both FOXNEWS and CNN. They don't even MENTION, not even an article about the North American Union. Exception is Lou Dobbs because he has a clause in his contract which states he can do his own material. They don't talk about bush signing a formal agreement that will merge canada,mexico and the United States. They don't talk about the REAL ID act which is a national ID card with an RFID chip. Can anyone ARGUE, or make a case that the big media institutions and the government are not working together to suppress the people? And that is the defintion of fascism folks. All they talk about is American Idol, Paris Hilton, and how Al-Qaeda is going to get us if we don't give up all our freedoms.

Also, CNN was caught with officers from the Army's Psychological Operations (PSYOPS) working in their news room a few years back. Yet, no one talks about it. It's really sad how we've become so dummed-down the only issues we talk about is what we see on TV, which is controlled by government.


Bottom Line- Wake up people, There is no hoax that you won't believe.

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Yea..what he said.