ABC News Video on Demand 9/11 Mastermind Confesses Khalid Sheikh Mohammed confesses to dozens of major terrorist attacks.
According to a 26 page transcript released this week by U.S. military officials, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed confessed to being the mastermind behind the September 11, 2001, attacks. Speaking through a military representative, Mohammed stated, "I was responsible for the 9/11 operation, from A to Z,".
Other statements delivered by him during a March 2007 U.S. military tribunal included taking credit for the brainstorming and planning of 31 major terrorist plots and operations worldwide. The laundry list includes the 1993 and 2001 World Trade Center attacks, a thwarted 1995 plot to blow up as many as 12 U.S. commercial airliners, the October 2002 Bali, Indonesia nightclub bombing, a 1995 plot to assassinate Pope John Paul II, as well as, schemes to assassinate former Presidents' Carter and Clinton, to name a few.
Perhaps the most grim of all, perhaps, was his claim that he personally beheaded Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002. "I decapitated with my blessed right hand the head of the American Jew, Daniel Pearl, in the city of Karachi, Pakistan", he was recorded as saying, according to the transcript. "For those who would like to confirm, there are pictures of me on the Internet holding his head."
Mohammed's meteoric rise in the al Qaeda ranks began in Afghanistan, soon after he graduated from from North Carolina A&T University where he earned a degree in engineering. He purportedly hooked up with al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden in 1996, whom he stoically compares to patriot and freedom fighter George Washington, as was reported in the ABC News video.
A question arises, among a proliferation, how often has the institution of American education been leveraged against the the American public at large and why does it continue? Are the tuition dollars the only consideration when it comes to educating those outside the U.S.?
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