{"id":639,"date":"2007-03-15T10:45:54","date_gmt":"2007-03-15T16:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=639"},"modified":"2017-06-06T04:11:45","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T10:11:45","slug":"can-khalid-sheikh-mohammeds-tortured-testimony-be-trusted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2007\/03\/can-khalid-sheikh-mohammeds-tortured-testimony-be-trusted\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Khalid Sheikh Mohammed&#8217;s &#8216;tortured&#8217; testimony be trusted?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\"  href=\"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/mohammed1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style='float: left; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px; width: 250px;' src=\"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/mohammed.thumbnail1.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>David Edwards and Ron Brynaert, rawstory.com<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, NBC&#8217;s <em>Today Show<\/em> explored whether the confessions of alleged 9\/11 &#8220;mastermind&#8221; Khalid Sheikh Mohammed can be trusted, since he claimed to have been tortured after being detained.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/Can_Khalid_Sheikh_Mohammeds_tortured_testimony_0315.html\">(more)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><font size=\"2\">ALLEGED AL-QAEDA MASTERMIND KHALID SHIEK MOHAMMED HAS CONFESSED TO THE KILLING OF US JOURNALIST DANIEL PEARL AND PLOTTING 9\/11, THE PENTAGON SAYS.<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I decapitated with my blessed right hand the head of the American Jew Daniel Pearl,&#8221; he is quoted as saying in a revised transcript of US hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is being held at Guantanamo Bay, and was questioned by the tribunal there at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>He also reportedly confessed to plotting 9\/11 and many other attacks. <!-- E SF --><\/p>\n<p>The alleged admission had been blacked out in an earlier version of the transcript released by the Pentagon.<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/6455307.stm\">(More)<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Edwards and Ron Brynaert, rawstory.com On Thursday, NBC&#8217;s Today Show explored whether the confessions of alleged 9\/11 &#8220;mastermind&#8221; Khalid Sheikh Mohammed can be trusted, since he claimed to have been tortured after being detained. 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