Khalid Sheikh Mohammed could not have beheaded Daniel Pearl

[eridani]

1. Someone else already confessed.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1804710.stm
British-born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh has been sentenced to death for abducting and murdering US journalist Daniel Pearl.


2. It's worse than that--he's dead, Jim!
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/DJ30Df01.html
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.

[radfringe]

1. gee - why doesn't this surprise me?

coming soon - officials will blame it on poor journalism, i.e. Khalid Shaikh Mohammed didn't say he did it, he said he planned it?

and the bushies wonder why we don't believe anything they say

[donheld]

2. I'm sure Khalid would tell you he beheaded Jimmy Hoffa

After Bushie had him tortured he probably confessed to being Anna Nicole's baby daddy.

[dipsydoodle]

12. Quite apart from

killing Bambi's mother and just letting Wilkes Booth be a fall guy. :rofl:

[maddezmom]

3. interesting transcript from 2/25 /02 re:Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh

~snip~

KHWAJA NAVEED AHMED, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Omar Sheikh had complained that by force, his signatures had been obtained on blank papers and he was forced to make confession, which he doesn't want to make.

BURNS: Judge Shabir Ahmed (ph) told the investigators to back off, even though Sheikh Omar has previously confessed to being behind the kidnapping. That statement wasn't sworn testimony, so it can't be used as evidence.


~snip~
CANDIOTTI (voice-over): The White House is pressing Pakistan to turn over Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, an alleged ringleader in the kidnapping and murder of journalist Daniel Pearl.

ARI FLEISCHER, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: The United States would very much like to get our hands on Omar Sheikh and the others who are responsible.

CANDIOTTI: It turns out the U.S. was trying to get its hands on him at least a few weeks before Pearl's kidnapping.

Sources say the Justice Department had secretly indicted Omar Sheikh in the 1994 kidnapping of four tourists, including an American in India. On January 9, U.S. Ambassador Wendy Chamberlain pressed Pakistan for Omar Sheikh's arrest. So did the FBI director on January 24, the day after Pearl's kidnapping.

Omar Sheikh was taken into custody in the Pearl case February 5, but Pakistani authorities kept it under wraps for another week. U.S. officials are investigating possible connections between the Pearl case and Pakistan's intelligence service, and whether Omar Sheikh was one of its informants.

Raising this question: Was he protected by elements in that agency?
more:http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0202/25/asb.00.html

[eridani]

5. Oh my, the plot thickens! n/t

[femmedem]

10. Another link suggesting Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh's innocence:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/2057500.stm

The further you look into any of this, the uglier it gets.

[maddezmom]

4. another link:re Pakistani lobby US to get Pakistan reference out of 911 report

http://www.tribuneindia.com/2006/20060327/main2.htm

New Delhi, March 26
Fresh evidence has surfaced suggesting that the December 24, 1999, hijacking of Indian Airlines flight IC 814 was a progenitor of unprecedented terrorist attack on the American mainland (9/11). Two terrorist incidents — one in India and the other in the USA — are closely interconnected as without the hijacking of IC 814 in 1999, 9/11 possibly could not have taken place.

Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, one of the three terrorists who were taken to Kandahar for release by the then External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh, was one of the key planners and perpetrators of the most daring terrorist attempt on the US soil, said a former military intelligence analyst John Newman during his testimony before the 9/11 inquiry commission.

~snip~

All this does not find mention in the commission report because both the USA and the British governments were keen to enlist Pakistan as a key ally in their attack on Afghanistan.

Recent revelations in the Pakistani media have confirmed that Islamabad had paid tens of thousand dollars to lobbyists in the USA to get anti-Pakistan references dropped from the 9/11 report.

more:http://www.tribuneindia.com/2006/20060327/main2.htm

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

6. OMG! He's like Zarqawi who had risen from the dead! They have to start selling Mid East water here!

:rofl:

[vssmith]

7. Wasn't he also a suspect in the Lindberg kidnapping?

[jelly]

8. Wait, he's dead?

If so, this is officially the most contemptuous bit of conveniently timed information to emerge from the WH yet. Timed to provide a much-needed boost to Gonzo, insofar as he is known to have helped make the case for torturing KSM and others. Heck, that's contemptuous even if KSM is alive but that would make it all the more despicable if it turned out the information was patently false by virtue of dude being deceased.

[eridani]

9. See also--

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x423648


http://www.atlargely.com/2007/03/important_huge_.html
In his confession, KSM claims:

"I 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"

The Plaza Bank was not founded until 2006 according to their official Web site:

[CJCRANE]

11. Wasn't

Omar Saeed Sheikh the guy who wired the $100,000 to Mohammed Atta, ordered by the head of the Pakistani ISI?

There is also an allegation that Sheikh was a British double-agent.

[The Stranger]

13. Why hasn't the lying Neocon corporate press reported this?

[eridani]

14. Write LTEs far and wide calling them on it.

Based on some of the riffs on the subject on DU, I composed the following--

http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=khalid16&date=20070316&query=Khalid

1. Someone else already confessed and been convicted.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1804710.stm
"British-born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh has been sentenced to death for abducting and murdering US journalist Daniel Pearl."


2. He's dead.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/DJ30Df01.html
"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."

I wouldn't be suprised if whoever they are torturing subsequently admits to the JFK assassination, the Lindbergh kidnapping, and being the father of Anna Nicole Smith’s baby. Undoubtedly our professional Inquisitors are probably hoping to learn of his involvement in the killings of Albus Dumbledore and Jon Benet Ramsey, faking crop circles and putting the Ram in the Ramalamadingdong, providing he doesn't run out of fingernails and they have enough batteries for the cattle prods.