And we can believe him because?

The Pentagon tells us to? His whole testimony is tainted. Torture and three years of isolation and other horrors at Gitmo and we should be stunned and amazed at this confession? The Bush administration has contaminated everything to do with 9/11.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind behind the 11 September attacks, has admitted responsibility, a court transcript says.

"I was responsible for the 9/11 Operation, from A to Z," he said.

He also reportedly confessed to planning 29 acts of terrorism, including plans to attack Big Ben and Heathrow airport in London.

The hearing at the US Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba was the first time he had faced a court.

Sheikh Mohammed was believed to be the third most senior al-Qaeda leader before his capture in March 2003 in Pakistan.

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The court is not open to the public. Transcripts of testimony have been translated from Sheikh Mohammed's Arabic and edited by the Pentagon to remove sensitive intelligence material.

According to the transcript, Sheikh Mohammed admitted responsibility for a series of other attacks, including the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Centre in New York and the attempts by the so-called Shoe Bomber, Richard Reid.

So... we can't see him, hear him, read his original words, but must rely on the Gitmo 'lawyers' to tell us what he said. He may be the most horrific terrorist in the world, bent on total annihilation, but we have destroyed all believablility in his confession. It is worthless.

Update 3/15: Via JJ at Unrepentant Hippie, Josh Marshall reminds us this is old news used to bump Abu Gonzales off the front page.

Update: Pentagon redacted the mention of torture:

Known among CIA officers as “Al-Qaeda’s toughest prisoner” in Guantanamo Bay, Mohammed has long been the subject of extreme interrogation techniques, including waterboarding. “CIA officers who subjected themselves to the water boarding technique lasted an average of 14 seconds before caving in…KSM won the admiration of interrogators when he was able to last between two and two-and-a-half-minutes before begging to confess.” The CIA also reportedly abducted his seven- and nine-year-old sons and flew them to the United States for interrogation.