Detainee Admits to Helping Orchestrate Embassy, USS Cole Att

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[quote]Detainee Admits to Helping Orchestrate Embassy, USS Cole Attacks
American Forces Press Service,Donna Miles, March 19, 2007

WASHINGTON, March 19, 2007 – A detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has admitted to helping orchestrate the bombings of the U.S. embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, in 1998 and the USS Cole in Yemen in 2000.

The Defense Department today released the transcript of Walid Muhammad Salih bin Attash’s combat status review tribunal hearing, held March 12 at the detention facility. The tribunal was an administrative hearing to determine only if Attash could be designated an enemy combatant.

After hearing allegations against him, including his involvement in the Aug. 7, 1998, embassy bombing and the Oct. 12, 2000, attack on the USS Cole, Attash said he carried out “many roles” in the attacks.

Speaking through an interpreter, Attash said he met in Karachi, Pakistan, with the operator who carried out the embassy attack just hours beforehand.

“I was the link between Osama bin Laden and his deputy, Sheikh Abu Hafs al Masi, and the cell chief in Nairobi,” Attash said. “I was the link that was available in Pakistan.”

In that capacity, Attash said he supplied the terror cell “with whatever documents they need(ed), from fake stamps to visas, whatever, sending them from Afghanistan to Pakistan and individuals, cell members.”

[color=red]The attack, conducted almost simultaneously with an attack on the U.S. embassy in Tanzania, left 213 people in Nairobi dead, including 12 Americans, and more than 4,500 wounded.[/color]

Attash heard evidence against him charging that he facilitated and participated in close-combat training in the Lowgar training camp in Afghanistan in late 1999. Graduates of the class reportedly met with bin Laden, who lectured about the operational details of the East Africa bombings.

The following year, Attash is alleged to have helped plan and carry out the attack on the USS Cole during a refueling stop in the Yemeni port of Aden. Seventeen U.S. sailors were killed and 39 others wounded.

Attash said he helped plan the attack, purchased the boat and explosives used, and recruited the people who conducted it. He said he was in Kandahar with bin Laden during the actual attack.
defenselink.mil/news/newsart … x?id=32503[/quote]

It appears that this actor was trained and determined to proceed with death and destruction.
Gitmo works.

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[quote=“TainanCowboy”][quote]Detainee Admits to Helping Orchestrate Embassy, USS Cole Attacks
American Forces Press Service,Donna Miles, March 19, 2007

WASHINGTON, March 19, 2007 – A detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has admitted to helping orchestrate
the bombings of the U.S. embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, in 1998 and the USS Cole in Yemen in 2000.

The Defense Department today released the transcript of Walid Muhammad Salih bin Attash’s combat status
review tribunal hearing, held March 12 at the detention facility. The tribunal was an administrative
hearing to determine only if Attash could be designated an enemy combatant.

After hearing allegations against him, including his involvement in the Aug. 7, 1998, embassy bombing
and the Oct. 12, 2000, attack on the USS Cole, Attash said he carried out “many roles” in the attacks.

Speaking through an interpreter, Attash said he met in Karachi, Pakistan, with the operator who carried
out the embassy attack just hours beforehand.

“I was the link between Osama bin Laden and his deputy, Sheikh Abu Hafs al Masi, and the cell chief in
Nairobi,” Attash said. “I was the link that was available in Pakistan.”

In that capacity, Attash said he supplied the terror cell “with whatever documents they need(ed), from
fake stamps to visas, whatever, sending them from Afghanistan to Pakistan and individuals, cell members.”

[color=red]The attack, conducted almost simultaneously with an attack on the U.S. embassy in Tanzania,
left 213 people in Nairobi dead, including 12 Americans, and more than 4,500 wounded.[/color]

Attash heard evidence against him charging that he facilitated and participated in close-combat training
in the Lowgar training camp in Afghanistan in late 1999. Graduates of the class reportedly met with bin
Laden, who lectured about the operational details of the East Africa bombings.

The following year, Attash is alleged to have helped plan and carry out the attack on the USS Cole during
a refueling stop in the Yemeni port of Aden. Seventeen U.S. sailors were killed and 39 others wounded.

Attash said he helped plan the attack, purchased the boat and explosives used, and recruited the people
who conducted it. He said he was in Kandahar with bin Laden during the actual attack.
defenselink.mil/news/newsart … x?id=32503[/quote]

It appears that this actor was trained and determined to proceed with death and destruction.
Gitmo works.[/quote]

Stalin and Saddam Hussein learned that long ago, except in their cases it was “Lubyanka works” and “Abu Ghraib works.”

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[quote=“spook”]Stalin and Saddam Hussein learned that long ago, except in their cases it was “Lubyanka works” and “Abu Ghraib works.”[/quote]spook -
Do you really expect anyone to regard your comparison as valid?

Just amazing… :unamused:

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TC,

you gotta help me here. 5 years in a detention faciility, and this stuff is only coming out now? Why do you think that is?

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[quote=“TainanCowboy”][quote=“spook”]Stalin and Saddam Hussein learned that long ago, except in their cases it was “Lubyanka works” and “Abu Ghraib works.”[/quote]spook -
Do you really expect anyone to regard your comparison as valid?

Just amazing… :unamused:[/quote]

“Guantanamo has become the gulag of our time.”
– Amnesty International Secretary General Irene Khan

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[quote=“spook”][quote=“TainanCowboy”][quote=“spook”]Stalin and Saddam Hussein learned that long ago, except in their cases it was “Lubyanka works” and “Abu Ghraib works.”[/quote]spook -
Do you really expect anyone to regard your comparison as valid?

Just amazing… :unamused:[/quote]
“Guantanamo has become the gulag of our time.”
– Amnesty International Secretary General Irene Khan[/quote]spook -
Nothing from ANSWER or IWW? How about CAIRs’ opinions?

Tell me spook, which is correct: “integrity OUT the wazoo,” or “integrity UP the wazoo?”

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How about a dose of skepticism?
Quite the flood of confessions coming out of Gitgulag this week. Are they all genuine?

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[quote=“TainanCowboy”][quote=“spook”][quote=“TainanCowboy”][quote=“spook”]Stalin and Saddam Hussein learned that long ago, except in their cases it was “Lubyanka works” and “Abu Ghraib works.”[/quote]spook -
Do you really expect anyone to regard your comparison as valid?

Just amazing… :unamused:[/quote]
“Guantanamo has become the gulag of our time.”
– Amnesty International Secretary General Irene Khan[/quote]spook -
Nothing from ANSWER or IWW? How about CAIRs’ opinions?

Tell me spook, which is correct: “integrity OUT the wazoo,” or “integrity UP the wazoo?”[/quote]

Here’s a better question:

“It may be appropriate to pose a question - ought our government to make plain publicly and unambiguously our condemnation of the utter lawlessness at Guantanamo Bay?”
– Lord Steyn, senior British judge

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[quote=“spook”][quote=“TainanCowboy”][quote=“spook”][quote=“TainanCowboy”][quote=“spook”]Stalin and Saddam Hussein learned that long ago, except in their cases it was “Lubyanka works” and “Abu Ghraib works.”[/quote]spook -
Do you really expect anyone to regard your comparison as valid?

Just amazing… :unamused:[/quote]
“Guantanamo has become the gulag of our time.”
– Amnesty International Secretary General Irene Khan[/quote]spook -
Nothing from ANSWER or IWW? How about CAIRs’ opinions?

Tell me spook, which is correct: “integrity OUT the wazoo,” or “integrity UP the wazoo?”[/quote]Here’s a better question:[/quote]In whos’ opinion?..Yours?[quote=“spook”]“It may be appropriate to pose a question - ought our government to make plain publicly and unambiguously our condemnation of the utter lawlessness at Guantanamo Bay?”
– Lord Steyn, senior British judge[/quote]Again with the rhetoricals. OK…we’ll work with that while you refuse to comment on the OP’s topic of this terr having admitted complicity in at least 2 acts of murder and mayhem…ok…if thats what you want.
Spook…do you deny that removing this actor from circulation was a positive move in the actions against terrorism?

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Nobody, of course, is arguing against the need to aggressively arrest and prosecute terrorists. What we’re arguing against is becoming a police state in the process.

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[quote=“TainanCowboy”][quote=“spook”]“It may be appropriate to pose a question - ought our government to make plain publicly and unambiguously our condemnation of the utter lawlessness at Guantanamo Bay?”
– Lord Steyn, senior British judge[/quote]Again with the rhetoricals. OK…we’ll work with that while you refuse to comment on the OP’s topic of this terr having admitted complicity in at least 2 acts of murder and mayhem…ok…if thats what you want.
Spook…do you deny that removing this actor from circulation was a positive move in the actions against terrorism?[/quote]

The two aren’t mutually exclusive TC

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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed “admitted” making plans to assassinate president Carter…but he would have been a young teenager at the time…

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I’m not saying that this guy (or that bloke from the other day) isn’t guilty , but I’d just like to point out that most people would admit to more or less anything given a good enough beating.

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exactly. So, the US holds some guys for 5 or 6 years(outside of the normal Geneva POW rules), and then within the space of a week release sketchy details about supposed ‘confessions’ that have recently occurred.

wooo…hooo

I reckon the gunman from the grassy knoll is in there too. Just you wait, TC.

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The reason Guantanamo was located on the soil of one of the last two Stalinist era holdouts in the world was because . . . well, you get the idea.

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[quote=“spook”]The reason Guantanamo was located on the soil of one of the last two Stalinist era holdouts in the world was because . . . well, you get the idea.[/quote]again…[quote]Spook…do you deny that removing this actor from circulation was a positive move in the actions against terrorism?[/quote]…?

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Yup. Note that in the past, such confessions were more believable, before this Republican administration started outsourcing torture of suspects to 3rd world dictatorships and committing human rights abuse on a large scale such as at Guantanamo Bay. Bush has really hurt US credibility beyond repair, at least for a long, long time. But many on the right are blinded to this truth by those flags they’re so proudly a-wavin’.

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They are also hurting the US credibility by promoting this to the far corners of the earth. Just what the Terrorists want eh?

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You armchairs intel interpreters are hilarious…:roflmao:
You really should step back and see how your bitter seething hatred for US President George W. Bush has blinded your ability to reason.

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