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| Key 9/11 suspect 'admits guilt' |
| The alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks has admitted his role in them, and 30 other plots in a hearing at Guantanamo Bay, the Pentagon says.
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 15-March-2007
10:32:23 AM |
| "I was responsible for the 9/11 operation, from A to Z," said Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a partial transcript from a closed-door hearing.
He also said he had planned attacks on Big Ben and Heathrow airport in London.
The hearing was held to determine whether he was an "enemy combatant", which could lead to a military trial.
Any criminal charges that are brought could eventually lead to a military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
"I was the operational director for Sheikh Osama Bin Laden for the organising, planning, follow-up and execution of the 9/11 operation," Mr Mohammed told the hearing, in a statement read by a representative.
According to the partial transcripts, he also admitted responsibility for a series of attacks, including the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York, the bombing of nightclubs in Bali in 2002 and a Kenyan hotel in the same year.
He claimed responsibility for the failed attempt by the so-called shoe bomber, Richard Reid, to bring down an American plane.
He also listed a string of plots that never came to fruition, including plans to attack Heathrow Airport, Canary Wharf and Big Ben in London, to hit targets in Israel, and to blow up the Panama Canal.
There was a follow-up project to the 11 September attacks, which involved hitting towers in the US cities of Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago and the Empire State Building in New York, and to attack US nuclear power stations.
He also claimed to be behind plots to assassinate the late Pope John Paul II and former US President Bill Clinton, the transcript said.
He mentioned the killing in Pakistan of kidnapped US journalist Daniel Pearl - which he has been accused of carrying out personally - but it is not clear whether he was admitting responsibility.
According to the Associated Press news agency, Mr Mohammed confessed to the beheading in a blacked-out section of the transcript.
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