I've Got A Bridge

I'd love to sell it if any of you believe that this man confessed to everything but killing Christ. What kind of fools do they think we are?

The al Qaeda suspect who claimed responsibility for the September 11 attacks also said he beheaded U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl, according to a Pentagon transcript released on Thursday.

During a hearing at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp on Saturday, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed said he was involved in more than 30 attacks or plots. The Pentagon said it had withheld sections on Pearl's 2002 killing until it could inform the reporter's family.

"I decapitated with my blessed right hand the head of the American Jew Daniel Pearl," Mohammed said in a statement, according to the transcript.

"For those who would like to confirm, there are pictures of me on the Internet holding his head," said the statement read by a member of the U.S. military assigned to assist Pakistani national Mohammed at the hearing.

Pearl, a 38-year-old reporter for the Wall Street Journal, was kidnapped and killed in Pakistan in 2002.

During Saturday's closed hearing, Mohammed also claimed responsibility for a nightclub bombing in Bali, Indonesia, and an attempt to down two American airplanes using shoe bombs, according to a Pentagon transcript released on Wednesday.

Some security experts suggested Mohammed, alleged by U.S. officials to have been al Qaeda's external operations chief, was exaggerating his importance and questioned his reliability after years in custody subjected to harsh interrogation.

But Mohammed, who was arrested in Pakistan in March 2003 and handed over to U.S. agents, is widely considered to have been a senior al Qaeda figure.

U.S. officials say he was the chief planner of the September 11 attacks and a main suspect in the Pearl case.

During the military hearing, Mohammed himself spoke about Pearl's killing and said it was not an al Qaeda operation.

"It's like beheading Daniel Pearl. It's not related to al Qaida (Qaeda)," the transcript quoted him as saying.

This is positively hilarious!