And suddenly we hear from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) again!<\/p>\n

I must admit, I wouldn’t have been surprised if we never would have heard from him again (like a few other high profile terrorists\u00c2\u00a0who made the headlines when they were captured).<\/p>\n

“I was responsible for the 9\/11 Operation, from A to Z,” Mohammed …\u00c2\u00a0said …<\/p>\n

Mohammed, … also said he was responsible for a 1993 attack on New York’s World Trade Center, the bombing of a nightclub in Bali, Indonesia, and an attempt to down two American airplanes using shoe bombs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wow! He<\/strong> was the guy behind all that?<\/p>\n

Does that mean we’re now going to release Ramzi Yousef, who we have in custody for masterminding the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center? (Granted, KSM IS his uncle). And Bali? I thought they picked up Abu Bakar Bashir for that. For that same bombing in Bali, the US has Riduan Isamuddin (known as Hambali) in custody (in an ‘undisclosed location’, which, as we now all know, means either Israel or somewhere in Europe, probably in one of the Balkan countries).<\/p>\n

But, as it now turns out,\u00c2\u00a0is was KSM who masterminded it all and confessed to it all.<\/p>\n

You know …\u00c2\u00a0somehow I can’t get the thought out of my mind\u00c2\u00a0that KSM was being … well … let me say … ‘given an incentive’ or ‘persuaded’ to admit all this. I also wouldn’t be surprised\u00c2\u00a0if some of the pressure that was put on him involved some levels of discomfort. Maybe even more than some ‘okay’ (Cheney!) ‘waterboarding’.<\/p>\n

If I\u00c2\u00a0would have had\u00c2\u00a0the same audience as\u00c2\u00a0some of my bluddies<\/a>,\u00c2\u00a0I could imagine the TONS of comments along the line of “I don’t give a rat’s ass: FRY the pig!”<\/p>\n

And, you know, I totally understand that sentiment.<\/p>\n

But is it right? Wouldn’t we be stooping down to what we so despise in our ennemies? Besides, from a practical point of view: if we (illegaly!) torture them so that they confess .. so that we can kill them legally .. what’s the point? Why not (illegaly) kill them right away? Saves a LOT of money, time and problems.<\/p>\n

Anxious to receive some comments on this .. but I know, that’s slightly problematic with only two readers \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

And yes, I also put this in the ‘religion’ category. Is KSM a serial killer, a beast, an animal? No, I think he’s primarily just a deeply religious being.<\/p>\n

Link to article: link<\/a><\/p>\n

Update:<\/font><\/p>\n

Today [3\/15\/2007]\u00c2\u00a0it became known that KSM also admitted to having beheaded Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002.<\/p>\n

In fact, I thougt that that<\/strong> was what he was picked up for in the first place, but anyway, I wouldn’t be surprised if we hear tomorrow that he\u00c2\u00a0masterminded Jimmy Hoffa’s disapearance as well, or had the hand in JFK’s assassination.<\/p>\n

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