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.

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Breukelen advocaat Reviewed by Breukelen advocaat on . 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 Rating: 5