Mohammed claims responsible for 9/11: transcript »
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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the September 11 attacks on the United States, has claimed responsibility for those and other major al Qaeda attacks, according to the transcript of a hearing at Guantanamo Bay released on Wednesday.
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Shankari251 year, 5 months ago
Did he confess before or after being tortured? I guess he finally got waterboarded too much.
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Daylight1 year, 5 months ago
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GoldStandard1 year, 5 months ago
Let's be honest, it wouldn't matter to the left what he said or how much evidence was presented. You HOPE his statement is false.
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KingOfTruth1 year, 5 months ago
DavidHalko:The evidence was pretty damning, a confession was not needed to see the case clearly...
C'Mon David......you know that unless this guy is responsible for Global Warming, the DemLibs will take his side and defend his right to kill Americans as his Mohammed given right..........and then they will say that we should allow him to practice his religion of peace without arresting him.... we should all just get along.....
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1stMarDiv1 year, 5 months ago
Just waiting for the shoe to drop! I thought Osama Bin Laden was the Master Mind! Is Mohammed just playing scapegoat? I want the criminal caught - DON"T GET ME WRONG! If he did it GREAT!!! We got him. But oops - sorry Iraq! Our bad - turns out Osama - Saddam didn't do it! We can leave your country now.
Oh yeah and Afganistan - guess the taliban - hell I don't know. Lets bomb everyone!
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questionseverything1 year, 5 months ago
u mean the gold ring wearing osama?lol
so now we dont have to investigate if osama tells us not to?
denying the press access to these enemy combatant "trials" isnt gonna help put the truthers down....it just adds fuel to the fire that tells anyone,when the govt isnt open and transparent there might be something to hide
no one is defending this guy,we r fighting for the open democracy we were promised in the constitution
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Shankari251 year, 5 months ago
Well, I got a couple of questions. If they have all this evidence, then why is a confession needed? The second problem I have is the US government. If Bush and his cronies had not lied non-stop since he was elected, I might find this more believable. The next problem I have is that he is confessing to things like killing Daniel Pearl and such. Wasn't he in Guantanamo already when Daniel Pearl was killed?
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Charlson1 year, 5 months ago
I would have told my torturer anything he wanted to hear. I'd have confessed to anything to stop the torture. Confession obtained by torture is not always reliable. And when the authorities say the confession was given voluntarily, I remain skeptical. They've lied too many times for me to believe them carte blanche.
While saying that, If he's found guilty in a fair trial - hang him.
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questionseverything1 year, 5 months ago
david....according to the govt that he claims has tortured him and others for yrs the statements r w/o coersion...big deal..all these transcripts tell us is exactly what the admin wants us to know otherwise reporters would of been permitted
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questionseverything1 year, 5 months ago
ag gonzoles testified before congress that he would nevr let politics effect continuing in vestigation or be political decided
tim griffin recieved job to groom for political office
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capecoralM1 year, 5 months ago
"Did he confess before or after being tortured? I guess he finally got waterboarded too much."
Whatever happened the ol' Khalid Sheikh Mohammed AKA KSM. Known Islamic Extremist reporting to Al-Quada top dogs for decades. Known to be the Master mind and operational coordinator of the murder of thousands of innocent people being murdered in cold blood or maimed for life dating back to the 1990's. Men, Women, & Children, he had no reservations about killing all and any. Boy He was a great guy huh Shankari25. Unreal. There are some twisted individuals in this world we live in. Unreal
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capecoralM1 year, 5 months ago
Why the heck would you make a statement like "Did he confess before or after being tortured? I guess he finally got waterboarded too much."
This man was sought by US since the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing. He was just as or more important as a target in the War on Terrorism than OBL who is the money man not field op's. This is not a so called "Neocon or NeoLib such as Maui issue. This issue crosses all parties. The US knew he was involved in Global Terrorism for decades. Now some may have a soft spot in their heart for him because the CIA got their hands on this evil man but for heavens sake this man is as evil as they come. The world should be happy he is no longer able to plan for and carry out the cold blooded murder of men, women and children. Neolibs and Democrat(ic)s get a grip on your hate of George Bush!
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KingOfTruth1 year, 5 months ago
The poster boy for DemLibs taken when he was captured:
http://ak.imgfarm.com/images/ap/US_Terrorist_Confe
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 released by the Pentagon. For those who would like to confirm, there are pictures of me on the Internet holding his head, he added.
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.
Mohammed made clear that al-Qaida wanted to down a second trans-Atlantic aircraft during would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid's operation.
Mohammed said he tried to kill international leaders including Pope John Paul II, President Clinton and Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf.
Yup, sounds like a typical hero of the leftist DemLibs.
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Maui1 year, 5 months ago
to be gullible enough a schmuck to fall for this story, fabrication, on top of lies, lies and more lies, you would be one of the neocon-ed fools still holding on to whole fabricated web of deceptions, starting from the phony wmd's.. and ending with the hearings of all the failed criminal neocon liars..
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NoSpinDave1 year, 5 months ago
Maui, so how is the weather in CANDLAND anyway? It must be neat to live somewhere where the rivers run with cool-aid (fringe, conspiracy nut, liberal flavor of course) and the trees are cotton candy.
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Maui1 year, 5 months ago
schmucks, like zeitgeist and no-spine-dave, are the bigest suckers cuz such fools can be seem a mile away, telling on yourselves, clueless about the real world..
big suckuz!
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JustCallMeV1 year, 5 months ago
I agree! After all the issues with GitMo, CIA leaks and the DOJ, now they insert this "breaking story" to deceive the public into believing they have "their" man. A bright and shining "positive?" amidst the dark negatives of the current administration. NO!
I would confess to anything also if I were tortured enough, as anyone would. Pain is a great motivator!
So tell me, you gullible believers out there...Have they found Bin Laden yet? Why not? Ever noticed the Bin Laden issue faded into thin air? No accident folks.
Through all this smoke, you should be able to see the fire! They are taking down the small and insignificant to use as fodder while the friends of the White House, the bigger culprits, are roaming the Earth.
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JustCallMeV1 year, 5 months ago
That very well may be, however, under what circumstances? Given the right amount of torturous pain and time, I can get him to convert to Christianity and drink wine at the communion! I am doubting the validity of the statement and under the circumstances it was given. I can tell you, not of his own free will without a "little coercion".
Not to mention, the timing in which this information was released. And where is Bin Laden in all this?
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SuperX1 year, 5 months ago
I would like you guys to think about one thing, even if he isn't the Big Fish, he is still a TERRORIST, he deserves death, not compassion or empathy. This man would kill anyone that does not belong to his sect, you, your mom, your dad, your children, or anyone else he could get his hands on! Slinging mud at each other is not going to change this fact. It only makes you look like school yard children playing king of the mountain! If this comment offends you, all I can say is "If the shoe fits........"
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JustCallMeV1 year, 5 months ago
"...If this comment offends you, all I can say is "If the shoe fits........""
In fact...that is all you should have said. It would have made a better statement. Now you just illustrate an executioner's mentality.
Besides, I don't have any compassion nor empathy for those resposible for terrorism. That is to include the United States Govenment, which directly or indirectly, created this monster called TERRORISM!
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JustCallMeV1 year, 5 months ago
HYPOCRITE is the correct spelling. If your going to insult, please at least spell it right - cretin. And what is that bird? A pigeon? It suits you well.
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SantaM1 year, 5 months ago
are you guys serious? I dont think the treatement of a confessed mass murdered is a priority in the least, and I point out that V over here is named after a terrorist and you guys flip out. You're crazy.
out of your mind.
seriously out of your mind. If you think that treatment of this monster is really a defining characteristic between the "neo-cons" and your party, then your party really needs to rethink the priorities in their platform.
And as I said before... in most all cases, I'm considered a liberal. and i honestly believe my indifference to any torture for this jerk doesn't disqualify me from that stance.
It shouldn't anyway.
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Maui1 year, 5 months ago
got that right! i thought it was one of them noisy squawking seagulls.. as in 'see gullible'.. but i think you got it more on the money there V.. a stool pigeon if ever there was one, pecking up all the neocon stool 2!
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Maui1 year, 5 months ago
glad you are so amused, schmuck, it suits you perfectly as a class act bushit sucker just 'very fine indeed'! as if the bushit era has ushered in new heights of dignity and decorum..
big lib-sucka! is that funny nuff 4 ya? hahahahaha!!!!!!
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jeffery11 year, 5 months ago
Spoken like a true authoritarian right-winger and enemy of the United States republic based on limited government powers and the rights of the individual. Your strain of conservatism has no place in our republic.
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jeffery11 year, 5 months ago
Unfortunately we have the right to free speech, even those we disagree with. It is interesting that rather than arguing against the position you do not agree with, you threaten with the power of the government. This is not how our democracy, actually a republic, was intended to operate. Maybe in Stalinist Russia the KGB would spy on its citizens and act against those that voiced unapproved opinions but not here, until Bush.
You right-wingers don't get it. Discuss the topic, do not promote government interference in our debates.
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MonkeyBiz1 year, 5 months ago
"What Right or Rights have you lost under Bush????"
"Don't you know the Government has your Netscape ID and is watching you."
You just described rights lost under Bush.
The fourth amendment to the US Constitution has been cast aside by these neocons. Are you a Nazi? If you are, that's your right in this country. If you are not, why are you supporting subversive and un-American activities by these neo cons?
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KingOfTruth1 year, 5 months ago
MonkeyBiz:
"What Right or Rights have you lost under Bush????"
"Don't you know the Government has your Netscape ID and is watching you."
You just described rights lost under Bush.
Actually that was a program started under Clinton called Echelon.....so if it is a right, it was not lost under Bush but under Bubba..(which is a disguting thouhgt, btw)
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dunkirk1 year, 5 months ago
ROFLMAO, its called the Patriot Act and removes your right to be charged in a court of law or consult with a lawyer or protection from illegal search and seizure.. So please spare me the diatribe of how that ONLY applies to a terrorist since all that Bushco needs to do is declare you a terrorist and so much for providing ANY proof. So Moonbeam maybe a quick revisit to Civics class might be advisable
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questionseverything1 year, 5 months ago
acording to u secondchance i have lost the right to privacy in my home with this admin
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jeffery11 year, 5 months ago
How do you equate the concern that the information provided by Mohammed is accurate with support for enemies? It seems that you are more concerned with finding guilt rather than ensuring that the person is truly guilty.
I live in Illinois in which a rather large unmber of falsely accused people were found guilty of crimes they were ultimately proven to have NOT committed. The question is: what good does it do to merely find someone guilty if the perpetrator is not the one found guilty?
The issue is that our system must be structured to determine actual guilt, which this tribunal may, and not to merely find guilt. I do find it a sad state of affairs that so many do not trust their own government. That is Bush's and the compliant right's fault.
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jeffery11 year, 5 months ago
I see that you are incapable of understanding what another person says. I want you to provide me with the quote that indicates that I stated I believe him to be innocent.
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dunkirk1 year, 5 months ago
Hmmm It seems Bushco has set the hook and is busy reeling you in. he's confessed to almost everything thats happened around the world in the last 10 years. He's been one busy dude with the amazing fact things havent calmed down at all since he was caught.
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Blackacereturn1 year, 5 months ago
secondchance - Any sane republican would run from you! You are out of your freaking mind.
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capecoralM1 year, 5 months ago
"Unfortunately we have the right to free speech"
Why do you find it unfortunate that the US Constitution protects free speech?
What I find unfortunate is that people who use the constitutional right to Free speech don't recognize that they are responsible for their words and there are consequences for what they say.
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jeffery11 year, 5 months ago
It's unfortunate for those that don't agree with what's being expressed. Who determines those rules for which words to use or what to discuss? I find it unfortunate that so many people consider a democracy so fragile that it can't stand an argument now and then because that is what ultimately makes it stronger. It's when you stifle debate that you weaken a democracy. Just look at the reality of totalitarian states to see that that's true.
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KingOfTruth1 year, 5 months ago
Waht is really unfortunate is the vast majority of leftist DemLibs who forget along the the right of free speech comes the responsibility to use it wisely and not do things like giving aid, comfort and encouragement to the enemy by the loose use of free speech......remember the old saying: Loose Lips Sink Ships.....
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capecoralM1 year, 5 months ago
Why is that? Are you talking about somebody being offended by what you said. That is simply the consequence and responsibility one has to take for his or her uttered words. If you are afraid you are going to offend a friend by saying something you might not say it. Some simply believe that and are offended or even pis sed-off by the words some political leaders and individuals in the US are using seems to be giving aid and comfort to the enemy of the US. The enemy is not dumb. It seems to me that the enemy is able to manipulate the media much better than US officials. Show death and destruction to the US population and the result will be unpopularity and politicians scrambling around to adhere to the (perceived) mindset being created by the constant negative images. There is vested interest in these words and opinions. If Iraq turns out well and is able to flourish under a new paradigm how will the detractors be portrayed in a historical context? Arthur Nevil Chamberlian anybody?
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KingOfTruth1 year, 5 months ago
jeffery1: You left-wingers don't get it. Discuss the topic, do not participate in aiding, abetting and glorifying this mass murderer terrorist.....and it certainly is unfortunate that you Demlibs use free speech to do this without taking the responsibilties of controlling your speech to not do harm to the rest of us.....rights come with duties and responsibilties.
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jeffery11 year, 5 months ago
It seems that you are very confused by my opinion. Perhaps you could elucidate exactly what you think I said and I could help you at least understand, if not agree.
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Charlson1 year, 5 months ago
What the hell does ' Spoken like a true fool who misses the heady days of the antebellum South' have to do with Jeffery's statement? Are you projecting or purposefully misdirecting?
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Candida1 year, 5 months ago
GoldStandard,
It's not that anybody HOPES that the confession is false, but the problem with torture is that the confession may be true or it may be false. Nobody can tell. After a string of lies, it's hard to believe anything, and its even harder to believe what someone admits after being tortured.
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alakazam1 year, 5 months ago
Ya, how many years have they had him in a hole somewhere doing Lord only knows what to him before he finally said what they wanted him to say.
It is completely unreliable information.
I don't think I am going to trust anything that proceeds from a jumped-up kangaroo drumhead, not with torture and secrets included in the prosecution.
No credibility at all.
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Zeitgeist1 year, 5 months ago
The BBC's security correspondent Gordon Corera says there is nothing new in Mohammed's admission and that there is a transcript of his interrogation over 9/11 available on the web.
Its significance lies in the fact that he made the statements at the hearing, which could now lead to a trial before a military tribunal, our correspondent says.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6452573.stm
Catch that?...nothing new....he allready admitted this when he was CAUGHT...
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Zeitgeist1 year, 5 months ago
How do you know it wasnt necessary?
You dont think the number three man in Al Q might have some usefull information?....just maybe?
You dont have a clue if it was necessary or not...you just want to complain about ANYTHING Bush does...
He could save a baby from a burning building and you'd bitch because he didnt change the diapers on the way out...
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splitrch1 year, 5 months ago
Nobody likes or supports this bastard. The point is was the confession real? Personally I think he's guilty and hope he gets whatever punishment is meted out. However, I want to see the trial in open court. The reason is I want Americans and the rest of the world to know that we are still America. I think we are stronger and have moral authority when we are true to our expressed values. Does this make any sense to you?
I'm not trying to pick a fight. I am merely expressing an opinion.
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MonkeyBiz1 year, 5 months ago
I heartily agree splitrch! Hang him from the nearest tree if he is guilty. But first find him guilty with a public trial!
Secret tribunals, torture, no habeas corpus, indefinate incarcerations, etc. etc. These are things that were utilized by history's worst government leaders. Hitler, Stalin, Idi Amin, Saddam Hussien and a number of others would approve of the way Bush's government is handling this.
Being an American that has fought for this country, I am appalled, shocked, and getting very angry at our present government.
No true American would support these extremists that have hijacked our government and crapped on our constitution.
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splitrch1 year, 5 months ago
which is exactly why we have to better than they are. P.S. I meant to give you a negative. I screwed up and hit "good" accidentally. Also, if you condone terror tactics in a "Good" cause you too can be viewed as a terrorist. Think about what you are saying. You should really think about what MonkeyBiz is saying. You a-holes who call your fellow countrymen traitors because they disagree with you are more patriotic and more knowledgeable of what this country stands for than you will ever be. You may be the king of something but truth its not.
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pacifex1 year, 5 months ago
The problem of many on this board is their lack of perspective, i.e. historical appreciation. They are speaking from emotion.
Is all his confession true? We don't know, but to discount everything he said is stupidity.
Just a quick example:
The fact that Daniel Pearl was killed looking for him speaks volume about how much the media already know what this guy is made of.
So, those who choose to shut their eyes speak of their ignorance.
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Natureboy1 year, 5 months ago
Likewise, the problem with hearing it from the FBI, CIA or DOD is that it may be true or it may be false.
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Zeitgeist1 year, 5 months ago
Oh...there is a truther posting later in the thread...
Only the half sane distanced themselves from the "truth" movment after the midterms out of embarrassment...
Notice how many newbies have so much knowlege of previous arguments and forum users...
*snicker*
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NoSpinDave1 year, 5 months ago
I think my tone was reflective of the absolute nonsence of the "truth" movement.
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nakedtruth1 year, 5 months ago
Does it really matter? Khalid Shaik Mohammed is only a small piece of a much bigger picture. This picture leads all the way back to intelligences services in Pakistan and evetually America. Phone records show Pakistani Intelligence Director Mahmood Ahmed had $100,000 wired to lead hijacker Mohammed Atta in April 2001. Was KSM part of the planning for this? Quite possibly.
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/entity.jsp?enti
Does that get Mahmood Ahmed off the hook? Nope. Does that get this administration off the hook for letting him off the hook? Nope.
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KingOfTruth1 year, 5 months ago
Actually the link you provided shows that about 90% of the events listed about these terrorist organizations happened under Bill CLinton's watch and the FBI and CIA had full knowledge of a lot of it and they all did absolutely nothing to stop any of it......hardly any of this stuff happened under Bush.....
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jaern1 year, 5 months ago
He confessed to everything and then some. Did he also confess to starting Global Warming as well? The 9-11 commission found him to exaggerate the truth. I find that our "liberal news media" has once again fallen prey to the propaganda machine in the White House.
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ETproductions1 year, 5 months ago
If that were true, why would the EVER waterboard? Truth serums to get people talking, but there is no telling whether what they say is reality of pure fantasy. It's almost like listening to somebody else's dreams and trying to make sense of it.
The facts are that A: Torture doesn't work to get at the truth and B: Drugs don't work to get at the truth. The legal system we've been perfecting ever since the Magna Carta, flawed as it may be, works best at getting to the truth. And even that fails all too often. But it is so far better than the methods of Torquemada that it boggles the mind that Bush is resorting torture to build his "I'm a war president" ego trip.
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ETproductions1 year, 5 months ago
And the secret CIA prisons. The movement of prisoners to countries that outsource the torture for us. Even though it is an established fact and there are warrants in Europe for the arrest of CIA agents for having done it, that's all fantasy too. Am I gullible? Perhaps, or maybe you are an ideologue whose attitude is, "My mind is already made up, don't confuse me with the facts."
Please understand that I'm NOT saying that this Khalid Sheikh Mohammed fellow is as innocent as a dove. No question he's a bad operator and probably deserves everything that's coming to him. Problem is when you torture people to get confessions, you can just as easily condemn the innocents as the guilty.
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ETproductions1 year, 5 months ago
Further to this discussion, See "Doth Sheikh Mohammed Confess too Much?"
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/foreigndesk/detail
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SantaM1 year, 5 months ago
You're an idiot. This guy is a top Al Queda official. AL Queda claimed responsibility some where on or right after... september eleventh two thousand and one. That's pretty well BEFORE the US might have tortured him. So if the torturing did take place. it probably wasn't to induce the confession... and who knows... maybe it was just for fun. He DID kill about 3000 people.
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ETproductions1 year, 5 months ago
Oh I see. So if they had rounded YOU up and tortured you till you admitted to being a top al Qaeda Official responsible for 911, that would make you the guilty party?
Like Harry Truman said, the buck stops here. In Osama bin Laden's case, he freely admitted al Quaed did it, so he is the guilty party, even if he delegated the planning.
In Bush's case, he's guilty of ordering torture and violations of the Geneva Conventions even if he didn't carry out the orders he gave.
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Zeitgeist1 year, 5 months ago
See...this is the liberal "empathy" at work...they empathize with terrorists for they see themselves becoming the victim of the evil neo-con goverment some day...
Where as normal people cannot possibly imagine ever being "rounded up" and tortured...Normal people dont have the slightest worry about being shipped off to GITMO...or give a flying crap what happens to murderous madmen..
Christ...just go back to when Saddam was hanged...the left was beside itself...
Liberals gladly put themselves in the place of the madmen and think it could happen to them...
Liberism IS a mental disorder...
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KingOfTruth1 year, 5 months ago
Actually it was FDR who rounded up US citizens of Japanese, German, Italian and even other descent, without benefit of habeas corpus, and then renditioned them to concentration camps. Typical stuff from DemLibs. Did you know that in 1950 DemLibs icon and Future Dem Presidential candidate, Hubert H. Humphrey actually brought a bill before Congress, the Detention Act, to build more concentration camps to be used to house US citizens who disagreed with the government? These were in El Reno OK,Florence AZ, Avon Park FL, Tule Lake CA, Wickenburg AZ, and Allenwood PA.
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