KSM: I am the lindbergh baby

ah, what clever timing! just when you thought that the news couldn’t get any worse for gee-dub & pals – his attorney general under fire, ol’ scooter being found guilty, and those silly democrats trying to pull out of iraq post-haste… something like this just happens to come to light, and make us all feel better for beating those wacky terr-or-ists, right?

“I was responsible for the 9/11 operation, from A to Z,” Mohammed said through a military representative.

During the hearing, Mohammed also acknowledged he planned, financed or ran training for a catalogue of high-profile terrorist attacks, including operations to assassinate several U.S. presidents and to destroy world-famous landmarks such as Chicago’s Sears Tower, the Panama Canal and London’s Big Ben.

he also claims to have beheaded daniel pearl, planned to assassinate the pope, singlehandedly invented stonewashed jeans, and escaped from the phantom zone mirror after being imprisoned by jor-el.

as to whether this “confession” was coerced by his interrogators (jack bauer style, hopefully), or if his pants were simply on fire, no one knows. press coverage isn’t allowed during the hearings; not that anyone really wants to go into gitmo bay anyway – for fear of never coming back.

of course, I’m not alone in doubting his claims of terrorist mack-daddiness:

Are Mohammed’s claims to be believed? He has long been described – notably in The 9/11 Commission Report – as prone to exaggeration and self-aggrandizement, fond of portraying himself as a “superterrorist.” The notes to the Commission’s conclusions mention the possibility of Mohammed “inflating his own role.”

What’s more, Mohammed has also used disinformation in the past. He admitted under previous interrogation that a list of 30 supposed U.S. targets, which he circulated shortly after 9/11, was a lie to exaggerate the scale of al-Qaeda’s planning.

incidentally, I think my favorite term from the article is “meandering elocution”. what a kickass name for a band.