I think we had the goods on him before this confession, but I wonder what lead up to it. Is he afraid of being executed? Was he tortured until his will was simply broken? Is his confession his way of flipping us the bird? My money is on "coward."
The alleged mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attack in the US has admitted to being responsible, the US says.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, held prisoner at Guantanamo Bay, also admitted to being behind other al-Qaeda operations, according to a transcript of a hearing released by the Pentagon on Wednesday.
"I was responsible for the 9/11 operation, from A to Z," Mohammed said in the transcript.
He admitted to being Osama bin Laden's operational director for "the organising, planning, follow-up and execution of the 9/11 operation".
Mohammed's confession was recorded by a US military representative during a hearing at the Guantanamo prison camp in Cuba on Saturday.
The hearing was being held to determine whether Mohammed, a Pakistani national, can be defined as an "enemy combatant".
Mohammed also claimed responsibility for an attack on New York's World Trade Centre in 1993, the 2002 bombing of a Bali nightclub in Indonesia and an attempt to take down two American aircraft using shoe bombs, according to the transcript.
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