Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is reputed to be Al-Qaeda's third-in-command and the 'mastermind' of the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington. I have great difficulty in believing this. Rabbi Dov Zakheim is a much more likely candidate. Zakheim's credentials are impeccable.
According to the transcript of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's 'confession', the alleged 'mastermind' of the 9-11 attacks on New York and Washington is said to have claimed that he:
"....was responsible for planning, training, surveying, and financing for the New (or Second) Wave of attacks against the following skyscrapers after 9/11: ...Plaza Bank, Washington state."
And if you believe that, then I have a sea-front property in Sheffield to sell you.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was captured in Rawalpindi, Pakistan on 1st March, 2003. The Plaza Bank website states that the organisation was created in the early part of 2006. So unless Mohammed is capable of travelling back and forth in time like Dr. Who, it is thus impossible for him to have known of the bank's existence in 2003. How on earth could Khalid Sheikh Mohammed possibly have known about an organisation which had not yet come into existence?
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed would seem to be a man who is ahead of his time!
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Confesses And Wants His Fingers Back
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks, admitted to those attacks and numerous others during a U.S. military hearing on Saturday. After his confession he requested that his interrogators return six missing fingers and remove the electrodes from his testicles.
In a statement from him, read by a U.S. military representative, he said, "I was responsible for the 9/11 operation, from A to Z." The transcript continues with the list of operations he was responsible for, including the Richard Reid shoe bomber attempt to blow up an airliner over the Atlantic Ocean, the Bali nightclub bombing in Indonesia, Rudolph Giuliani's second divorce, the US failure in Iraq, E.Coli poison outbreaks in Spinach and the shocking conditions found at Walter Reed army medical center.
The list of some 29 operations he was responsible for is followed by a shorter list of operations he was partially responsible for, including an assassination attempt against then-Pope John Paul II while he was visiting the Philippines.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed admitted that he timed the release of his confession to help bolster the sagging poll numbers of President George W. Bush. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed also stated that he has been tortured nearly every day since he arrived at the Guantanamo Bay detainment camp.
Terror Mastermind KSM Is An Imposter - The Confession Is Fake
The person who is said to be Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) clearly does not appear to be the person who masterminded the attacks of 911. It does not appear that he has ever masterminded anything.
He seems to be an imposter, a feeble-minded "fall guy," who has been tortured and whose mind has been manipulated in order to make these incredible claims.
The Photographic Evidence Of An Imposter
It was reported on March 1, 2003, that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed had been captured during a raid on an apartment in Rawalpindi, the sister city of the Pakistani capital, Islamabad:
"According to the local media, Khalid was seized while in the house of one Ahmed Abdul Qudoos, who, it turns out, is a mentally feeble person - he is also being held in custody as an al-Qaeda member - and as such receives a regular stipend from a United Nations organization."
This was reported in the Pakistani and Indian press, which carried photos of the feeble-minded Ahmed Abdul Qudoos. It is also reported near the bottom of the following page with a photo of the arrested feeble-minded Qudoos.
Note the heavy-set frame, the nearly closed eyes, and the grey sideburn in front of Qudoos right ear.
Ahmed Abdul Qadus (in handcuffs) at an anti-terrorist court in Rawalpindi, Pakistan(Source)
The caption to the above photo of Qudoos (also spelled Qadus):
Ahmed Abdul Qadus (centre) is brought to an anti-terrorist court in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, on Saturday. Qadus, an activist of the Jamat-e-Islami, was arrested earlier this month with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, suspected mastermind of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks in the USA. - AP/PTI
Now compare that person's face with that of the alleged terror mastermind, KSM:
KSM (left) Ahmed Abdul Qadus (right)
Again you will see that the suspect called KSM has the grey sideburns, heavy frame, and lazy eyes of Qudoos. So. The confessed terror mastermind is actually Ahmed Abdul Qadus. The real KSM was killed on September 11, 2002, as was reported in the Pakistani press at the time.
Another view of the person who is said to be Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
By comparison, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed before his arrest showed a sign of intelligence
An Imposter?
The first indication that this is not the real KSM, and that we are talking about two different people is the fact that the person making the confession in the secret military tribunal in Cuba can barely speak English.
The real KSM, on the other hand, was educated in the United States and had obtained a degree in mechanical engineering from an American university in 1986.
The really poor English found in the recent confession does not fit with a U.S.-educated engineer.
The real KSM attended Chowan College, a small Baptist school in Murfreesboro, North Carolina, for at least one semester in 1983, according to Sarah Ward, spokesperson for the college.
KSM then transferred to North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and completed a degree in mechanical engineering in 1986. This was confirmed by Nettie Rowland of the university office.
The real KSM was a person who had traveled and worked across Asia and had lived in many foreign countries, from the United States to the Philippines to Bosnia.
The real KSM would have simply had to have had a much greater command of the English language than what we see in the 26-page transcript of the recent confession.
Was KSM Killed In 2002?
Syed Saleem Shahzad, a senior political correspondent with the Dawn Group of newspapers in Karachi, Pakistan, reported in October 2002 that "Khalid Shaikh Mohammed" had been killed in a raid carried out by the FBI and ISI in Karachi on September 11, 2002:
Now it has emerged that Kuwaiti national Khalid Shaikh Mohammed did indeed perish in the raid, but his wife and child were taken from the apartment and handed over to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), in whose hands they remain," Shahzad reported on 30 October 2002.
And:
Initially, the joint ISI-FBI plan was to take Shaikh Mohammed alive so that he could be grilled, especially as he was believed to have knowledge of other al-Qaeda cells in Afghanistan, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen and elsewhere. However, as a plain clothed officer climbed the stairs toward the third-floor apartment, a hand grenade was thrown, and he retreated. Reinforcements then arrived, and for the next few hours a fierce gun battle blazed.
The FBI, still keen to take Shaikh Mohammed alive, tear gassed the area, and a number of people were captured. However, despite instructions to the contrary, a few Pakistan Rangers entered the flat, where they found Shaikh Mohammed and another man, allegedly with their hands up. The Rangers nevertheless opened fire on the pair.
Later, the Pakistani press carried pictures of a message scrawled in blood on the wall of the flat, proclaiming the Muslim refrain of Kalma, in Arabic: "There is no God except Allah, Mohammed is his messenger"). An official who was present in the flat at the time of the shooting has told Asia Times Online that the message was written by Shaikh Mohammed with his own blood as his life drained from him. (Source)
On March 6, 2003, Shahzad wrote again about the mystery surrounding whether KSM was alive or dead in an article entitled "Khalid: A test for US credibility."
The following is a reconstruction of events that were widely reported in the Pakistani print and electronic media, and information gathered from intelligence sources.
The building stands alone, with no access to the ones next door. Initially, a few plain clothed officials (including a major of the ISI and a civilian inspector) entered the building and urged the people inside to evacuate. A grenade was then thrown, which injured the major and the inspector, forcing them to retreat.
Fresh troops then entered the building, and a fierce gun battle broke out. At this point, according to an eyewitness, a car carrying a few "white people" was seen speeding away from the scene. Tear gas was then fired into the building, and the shooting subsided.
Pakistan Rangers along with many plain clothed officials and police surged into the building and fired at two men in one of the flats, who were standing with their hands up. One of these turned out to be Ramzi Binalshibh, who had wanted to join the 19 hijackers for the attacks on the US but who had been unable to get a US visa. He was taken into custody.
Nine other suspected terrorists were captured, and two were killed. A woman FBI official examined the bodies, and, as reported by an ISI official, suddenly exclaimed, "You have killed Khalid Shaikh Mohammad." The woman then instructed that a finger be cut off the body, which she took away, presumably for a DNA test.
Khalid's wife and child were taken away to an ISI safe house in the vicinity where they were interrogated by the FBI, and it is said that the woman identified one of the bodies as Khalid. Several weeks after this incident, the then interior minister, Moinuddin Haider, stated in the country's largest Urdu-language newspaper that Khalid's widow had been handed over to Egyptian authorities.
Apparently, neither of the bodies was buried, a departure from usual custom, and they were kept in a private mortuary operated by the Edhi Home, a charity organization. After several weeks, some women, said to be widows and mothers of those killed in Kashmir and Afghanistan, launched a protest in front of the mortuary for the bodies to be handed over.
Again, according to Pakistan print media reports, these protest turned into big demonstrations which forced the authorities to issue a statement that the bodies had been buried in a local, unidentified, graveyard.
ISI officials close to the case at this time were convinced, as were the FBI, that Khalid had been killed. But they chose not to disclose the death as they wanted other al-Qaeda members to attempt to remain in contact with him through the recovered satellite telephones, mobile phones and laptop computers.
9-11 Relatives React
William Doyle, who lost his son on 9/11, heads a relatives' group called the Coalition of 9/11 Families. Asked about the recent confession to the super-secret military tribunal in Cuba, Doyle said it was "sickening."
"This is a complete new low," Doyle said. "The administration is using him as a fall guy for the continuing cover-up of the U.S. government."
"He should be brought to the United States to face trial," Doyle said. "He is not the only one involved."
"Who financed him?" Doyle asked. Doyle noted that the government has classified 28 pages from the bi-partisan investigation into 9/11 from 2002.
"The administration has information about where he got the money," Doyle said. "Our government knows. Why aren't these people being questioned?"
"At least there was a trial in Germany where all the evidence was presented," he said, referring to the Hamburg trial of terror suspect Mounir el Motassadeq.
This Ahmed Abdul Qadus is the person who is being presented to the world as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. This is an imposter and the confession is a fraud - and the military and government know it.
When And Where Was Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Captured - Or Killed?
Ahmed Abdul Qadus, the man arrested in a raid which supposedly led to the capture of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, was held in solitary confinement for 25 days and then released from jail in Pakistan.
Ahmed Abdul Qadus, the man at whose home Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was said to have been arrested, was reportedly reunited with his family after 25 days in solitary confinement on March 26, 2003
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the alleged al-Qaeda financier Mustafa al-Hisawai were reportedly arrested at the home of Qadus in Rawalpindi on March 1, 2003, in a joint operation between the FBI and Pakistani authorities.
The family of Qadus, who is described as "feeble minded," insisted he is innocent and claim the al-Qaeda men were never at the house.
An AP story reported on the family's claims the following:
On Sunday, Qadus' family vehemently denied he was involved in terrorism and insisted he was alone at home with his wife and children when authorities burst in around 3 a.m. Saturday.
They said about 25 heavily armed agents, some in civilian clothes and some in blue uniforms, stormed into the house, rifling through drawers and pointing their guns at the children. They quickly took Qadus away and kept his wife and children under guard in a small bedroom as they searched the house, Qadus' sister, Qudsia Khanum, said.
Agents, all of whom appeared to be Pakistani, took a computer hard-drive, documents and U.S. dollars from the house, the family and security officials said. Khanum said the computer had no Internet hookup and that her brother didn't even know how to use it.
"He is slow, and he is so innocent and friendly, it is inconceivable that he could be involved in intrigue. People run rings around him because it would never occur to him that they might lie or take advantage of him," she said from the family's living room in an upscale neighborhood of the city.
Qadus' father, Abdul Qadus, is a prominent microbiologist who worked in Africa for the World Health Organization for many years before retiring, Khanum said. The 42-year-old Qadus, however, could not hold down a job and had lived at home with his parents his entire life, she said.
Qadus' mother, Mahlaqa, is a local leader of Jamaat-e-Islami, one of the main hardline religious parties in Pakistan. The family speculated the arrest was a political ploy to discredit her and the party, which is part of an ultraconservative coalition that came in third in last year's parliamentary elections, largely on the strength of a virulently anti-American platform.
Ameer-ul Azeem, spokesman for Jamaat-e-Islami, said Qadus had not done anything wrong.
"Arabs, Afghans, Sudanese, it is not a sin to host them as guests, unless their crime is proven," he said when asked whether Qadus or his family had links with al-Qaida.
Interior Ministry spokesman Iftikhar Ahmed brushed off the family's claims, saying Qadus, Mohammed and the third man were all arrested at the family's home."
The bearded Qadus, who has a similar appearance to the person who is said to be Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, was released from jail after three weeks and still had his beard.
There are very few photographs of the person said to be Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and they are not dated, although they are said to be taken shortly after his arrest.
Where did the photos of the man said to be Khalid Sheikh Mohammed come from and why are there so few photos of him available? If he was captured on March 1, 2003, then he has been in U.S. custody more than for 4 years!
If this man was truly the commander of Al Qaida military forces and masterminded the attacks of 9/11 - why has so little attention been paid to him?
Why is he not being tried in federal courts for the murder of 3,000 Americans on 9/11? Why is he being kept totally incommunicado in Cuba?
If he is the mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks, he belongs in a U.S. courtroom to explain what he did and how he did it. Why is he still in Cuba?
yesterday became the latest Guantanamo Bay detainee to 'confess' to having carried-out a terrorsist attack. During a closed-door hearing at the Gitmo leisure centre in Cuba, Attash 'confessed' to purchasing the explosives and recruiting members of the terrorist cell that rammed an explosives-laden speedboat into the American warship USS Cole while it was refuelling in the port of Aden, Yemen in 2000.
The Pentagon did not say where Attash acquired the speedboat or explosives nor did they state how Attash managed to recruit a team of Mossad agents to carry-out the mission.
"Will this take long?", he asked the chairman, "I have a basketball match at 2 o'clock, and I'm supposed to be playing table tennis with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed at six."
The Pentagon also say that Attash claims he assisted in the planning of the 1998 bomb attacks on US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania". No one else does though.
A Guantanamo official speaking on the condition of anonymity said earlier today that further confessions are likely.
"These Muslim terrorists are looking more like devout Catholics with each passing day. We've got five guys in here who have confessed to dressing up as Israelis and filming the twin towers as they burned. These Arabs wiil go to extraordinary lengths to get the Jews in trouble."
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