Terrorist from A to Z

Khalid Sheikh Muhammad admitted in all sins one of Al-Qaeda’s leaders, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, said that he was all responsible for conducting a terrorist attack on September 11, 2001. Sheikh Mohammed said that he also planned to kill the Pope, Bill Clinton, to blow up Big-Ben and NATO headquarters in Brussels. The terrorist made these confessions during a court hearing, which began at the American military base of Guantanamo.

“I was responsible for the operation on September 11, 2001 completely: from a to me,” Khalid Sheikh Mohammed admitted to the court. This is evidenced by excerpts from the protocols of court hearings in his case, which began on Friday on the basis of the US Navy in Guantanamo (Cuba). The protocols yesterday was presented to the public by a certain American officer - the personal representative of Mohammed in court.

Pakyanian Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, one of the most high-ranking Al-Qaeda functionaries, was captured in 2003 in Pakistan and was kept in secret prisons of the CIA until last year. In 2006, he, together with the 13 other "most influential" Islamic terrorists who are suspected of organizing the attack on September 11, was transferred to the Guantanamo base.

During the imprisonment, Sheikh Mohammed already confessed to involvement in the destruction of the twin towers. This time, the Pakistanist announced this officially - at the court hearings. After listening to the testimony of the terrorist, the judges will decide whether he is considered “fighting on the side of the enemy” and whether to transfer his case to the military tribunal. In addition to the Mohammed case, the court will consider cases and the remaining 13 "influential terrorists." They also face the tribunal.

Hearings are held behind closed doors, which causes discontent not only among journalists, but also for many human rights organizations. Thus, the American agency Associated Press sent a letter to the US government, calling the process anti -constitutional. Kenneth Roth, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, is also not sure of the legitimacy of the trial of the accused. “We will not recognize this until independent hearings are organized,” he said. “We must know if this recognition (Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. -“ Gazeta ”) is sufficient to pronounce the verdict at a fair trial, or all this should be considered as a result of torture.”

According to the American military, during the court hearings, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed admitted to plan and support another 30 attacks in addition to an attack on the World Trade Center. Thus, Mohammed tried to organize the murders of the former US presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, Pope John Pavel II, Pakistani leader of the Musharraf Perevoz, planned to blow up the London Big-Ben, Khitrovo Airport, the Panama Canal and much more, the US military source reports. Sheikh Mohammed repeatedly stated that he was tortured in prisons, but the American military denies the possibility of pressure on the accused.

Russian Ayrat Vakhitov, a former prisoner of the Guantanamo prison, captured by the Americans in 2001 in Afghanistan, presented his vision of the situation. “On the basis of Guantanamo torture is far from uncommon. Torture is practiced by insomnia, when a person is forced to wakeful for three to four months, torture by cold. People are riveted with their hands and feet to the floor or put in a punishment cell for a long time, ”he said. - The fact is that many in Guantanamo have the status of detainees, and either international conventions or patriotic acts of the United States are not applicable to their position. The status of the Guantanamo base itself is also unclear: either it belongs to the United States, or Cuba. ” Ayrat Vakhitov does not exclude the possibility that Mohammed forced to make this confession. “I do not want to deny that there are criminals in Guantanamo, some of whom are really scary people, but cruel treatment in prisons gives rise to only the response of extremists,” he added.

03/15/2007 / Igor Kryuchkov, the material was published in the "newspaper" No. 47 dated 03.16.2007.