Detainee admits beheading Pearl, plotting attacks
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, mastermind of the September 11 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people, confessed to U.S. military officials he beheaded Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl "with my blessed right hand."
In revised transcripts released yesterday by the Pentagon of a Saturday hearing at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to determine his enemy-combatant status, Mohammed said he decapitated "the American Jew" in Karachi, Pakistan, in January 2002 because he was seeking information about a now-convicted shoe bomber.
"For those who would like to confirm, there are pictures of me on the Internet holding his head," he said.
The confession was withheld in the first release of the 26-page transcript on Wednesday night, Pentagon officials said, to allow time for Mr.
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