Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the #3 al-Queda operative who has confessed to planning the 9/11 attack, as well as a couple of dozen other terrorist attacks – is quoted above.
Well, he certainly is correct.
Here’s the Washington Post article about his confession – he views himself as a freedom fighter, not a terrorist. Don’t all terrorists think that way?
Alleged Architect Of 9/11 Confesses To Many Attacks – washingtonpost.com
One of those plans revealed Mohammed as captivated by "a spectacle of destruction with KSM as the self-cast star — the superterrorist," the commission wrote.
Mohammed contended that he and al-Qaeda are not terrorists, but are in engaged in a long struggle against U.S. oppression in the Middle East. He apologizes for killing children in the Sept. 11 attacks.
"Because war, for sure, there will be victims," he said. "When I said I’m not happy that 3,000 been killed in America. I feel sorry even. I don’t like to kill children and the kids."
Mohammed likened al-Qaeda’s quest to Colonial America’s struggles in the of America’s Revolutionary War, drawing parallels between Laden and George Washington.
"So when we made any war against America, we are jackals fighting in the nights," he said, adding later that had Washington been arrested by the British, he, too, would have been considered an enemy combatant.
"As consider George Washington as hero, Muslims many of them are considering Osama bin Laden. He is doing same thing. He is just fighting. He needs his independence."
Among other things, Khalid admitted to personally beheading Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, plotting the "shoe bombing" of a jumbo jet (it was foiled), planning assasination attempts against President’s Clinton, ex-President Carter, and Pope John Paul II, blowing up the night clubs in Bali, Indonesia in 2002 (202 people killed), and planning to blow up Big Ben, the Sears Tower, the New York Stock Exchange, and the Panama Canal.
For a transcript of his statement, go here:
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