The following is an except from a Christian Science story on the people who will be going to trial in New York, not far from the site of the World Trade Towers. I thought you might find it interesting to see what else Mr. Mohammed was up to, besides masterminding the 9/11 attack. If we had used all the proper politically approved tactics to capture him, chances are he would still be at large…and chances are we would have suffered some serious attacks. Thankfully we didn’t wimp out on the way we got him and his subsequent waterboarding produced some really good results.
Kalid Sheik Mohammed: “I was responsible for the 9/11 operation, from A to Z,” he told the military tribunal in March 2007.
He admitted to swearing an oath of allegiance to Osama Bin Laden to conduct jihad and to serving Bin Laden as operational director for the “organizing, planning, follow-up, and execution of the 9/11 operation.”
Mohammed was subject to some of the harshest interrogation tactics used by US officials. He was reportedly waterboarded 183 times. In his 2007 statement, he complained bitterly about being tortured by the CIA, but it didn’t seem to temper his apparent desire to confess.
He claimed responsibility for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the decapitation of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, Richard Reid’s failed shoe bomber operation, the nightclub bombing in Bali, Indonesia, planning for a second-wave of attacks on the US allegedly targeting the Liberty Tower in Los Angeles, the Sears Tower in Chicago, the Plaza Bank in Seattle, and the Empire State Building in New York, an assassination plot against former President Carter and former President Clinton, a plot to bomb bridges in New York, a plot to attack Heathrow Airport and Canary Wharf, plots to bomb US embassies in Indonesia, Australia, and Japan, the launch of a Russian-made SA-7 missile at a commercial jet departing Mombasa, a plan to hit nuclear power plants in the US, a plan to destroy 12 US commercial jets in flight at the same time, and a plot to train and fund an assassination attempt against former Pakistan President Pervez Musharaf.
Mohammed was raised in Kuwait. He is a 1986 graduate of North Carolina A&T State University with a degree in mechanical engineering.