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Alleged mastermind tells Obama 9/11 was America’s fault

Police and pedestrians run for cover in New York City during the collapse of the first World Trade Center tower after the landmark skyscrapers were struck by two hijacked airplanes on Sept. 11, 2001
Khalid Sheik Mohammed poses for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) at at the U.S. Navy Base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, in this undated photo.
Pedestrians flee the area of the World Trade Center as the center’s south tower collapses following a terrorist attack on the New York landmark Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001.
Pedestrians flee the area of the World Trade Center as the center’s south tower collapses following a terrorist attack on the New York landmark Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001.
Smoke billows from one of the towers of the World Trade Center, and flames and debris explode from the second tower on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001.
Khalid Sheik Mohammed sits at a defense table wearing a camouflage vest in front of military judge U.S. Army Col. James Pohl, right, on Oct. 17, 2012. Courtroom artist Janet Hamlin made the sketch, which was approved for release by the Department of Defense.
People flee lower Manhattan across the Brooklyn Bridge in New York, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, following a terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.
U.S. Army military judge Col. James L. Pohl, shown in this July 7, 2005 file photo at Fort Hood, Texas, is the chief of the Guantánamo military commissions judiciary.
Police and pedestrians run for cover in New York City during the collapse of the first World Trade Center tower after the landmark skyscrapers were struck by two hijacked airplanes on Sept. 11, 2001
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Police and pedestrians run for cover in New York City during the collapse of the first World Trade Center tower after the landmark skyscrapers were struck by two hijacked airplanes on Sept. 11, 2001 DOUG KANTER AFP/Getty Images

BY CAROL ROSENBERG

[email protected]

The alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 terror attacks wrote former President Barack Obama in a long suppressed letter that America brought the 9/11 attacks on itself for years of foreign policy that killed innocent people across the world.

“It was not we who started the war against you in 9/11. It was you and your dictators in our land,” Khalid Sheik Mohammed, 51, writes in the 18-page letter to Obama, who he addressed as “the head of the snake” and president of “the country of oppression and tyranny.” It is dated January 2015 but didn’t reach the White House until a military judge ordered Guantánamo prison to deliver it days before Obama left office.

ALLAH HELPED US TO DEFEND OURSELVES AND ATTACK YOUR MOST SIGNIFICANT MILITARY AND COMMERCIAL TARGETS IN YOUR LAND FOR YOUR CRIMES IN OUR LANDS.

Khalid Sheik Mohammed, accused Sept. 11 attacks mastermind

In it, the man on trial for his life at Guantánamo as the alleged architect of the hijackings that killed nearly 3,000 people in New York, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field adds that he neither fears a death sentence nor life in a prison cell. He also appends a 50-page manuscript he wrote, “The Truth About Death,” illustrated with a picture of a noose.

  An excerpt from Khalid Sheik Mohammed’s letter to former President Barack Obama. 

“I will be happy to be alone in my cell to worship Allah the rest of my life and repent to Him all my sins and misdeeds,” he says in the letter that he wrote at the U.S. Navy base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

“And if your court sentences me to death, I will be even happier to meet Allah and the prophets and see my best friends whom you killed unjustly all around the world and to see sheik Osama bin Laden.”

THE HERALD OBTAINED THE DOCUMENT FROM MOHAMMED’S LAWYERS AFTER A JUDICIALLY ORDERED 30-DAY REVIEW PERIOD EXPIRED.

The Kuwait-born Pakistani citizen of Baluch ethnic background, lists a long litany of U.S. overseas interventions — from Iraq and Iran to Vietnam and Hiroshima — to justify the worst terror attack on U.S. soil.

But he is particularly focused on the cause of the Palestinians, highlights civilian suffering and accuses Obama of being beholden to special interests, notably Israel and “the occupier Jews.” Israel gets 39 mentions while Osama bin Laden gets a dozen, including once to excoriate Obama for the mission that hunted down and killed the founder of the al-Qaida movement for the 9/11 attacks.

  An excerpt from Khalid Sheik Mohammed’s letter to former President Barack Obama. 

Mohammed ridicules Obama — “a smart attorney, well acquainted with human rights” — who “can kill his enemy without trial and throw his dead body into the sea instead of giving him to his family or respecting him enough as a human being to bury him.”

The former al-Qaida operations chief wrote the letter “in the context of violence in Gaza and the occupied territories,” said Mohammed’s death-penalty defense attorney, David Nevin. He called it “the primary motive for the drafting of the letter” and declined to say whether the client or his legal staff typed it up.

Mohammed began drafting the letter during 2014 when Israel had an offensive in the Gaza Strip that claimed civilian lives, according to his military attorney, Marine Maj. Derek Poteet.

“He’s upset at U.S. foreign policy and he plainly perceives that the United States has signed a blank check to Israel,” Poteet said. In the opening paragraph Mohammed tells Obama: “Your hands are still wet with the blood of our brothers and sisters and children who were killed in Gaza.”

In an Aug. 14, 2014 news conference at the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, Khalid Sheik Mohammed’s attorney, David Nevin, discusses the letter that Mohammed sent to President Obama.

Department Of Defense

Mohammed is one of five men in pretrial hearings at the Guantánamo war court that accuses them of engineering the Sept. 11, 2001 hijackings, and seeks their execution if convicted. The man was hidden for 3 1/2 years in the CIA’s secret prison network, where he was waterboarded 183 times and subjected to other brutal interrogation techniques.

“I will never ask you, or your court for mercy,” he writes. “Do what you wish to do, my freedom, my captivity and my death is a curse on all evil doers and tyrants.”

Mohammed spent about three years in North Carolina in the 1980s. He attended Chowan College in Murfreesboro for one semester and then transferred to North Carolina A&T in Greensboro, where he earned an engineering degree in 1986.

  An excerpt from Khalid Sheik Mohammed’s letter to former President Barack Obama. 

Prison officials refused to deliver the letter, a position backed by prosecutors who said it should be suppressed as propaganda.

His Pentagon-paid defense attorneys asked the judge to intervene in September 2015, arguing Mohammed’s First Amendment right to petition the president. The Army judge in charge of the trial, Col James L. Pohl, eventually ruled that the commander in chief could receive it, virtually as the Obamas were packing out of the White House — and the public could see it a month later, once President Donald J. Trump moved in.

“What’s so troubling to me is it took so long to get approval, even to get this litigated,” Nevin said, reminding that the defense team started out asking the military, “How do we provide this to the president of the United States?”

 

In the letter Mohammed also:

▪ Endorses Al-Jazeera. “Don’t let Fox, CNN, BBC, or American and pro-Israeli channels cover your eyes … Their main task is brainwashing. They are experts at lying and distorting the facts to achieve their masters’ ends.”

▪ Invokes “the blood of the innocents your drone attacks killed in Waziristan, Yemen, Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Somalia, and elsewhere around the globe.”

▪ Singles out “the CIA, the FBI, the Jewish community of Brooklyn, the merchants of AIPAC, the war profiteers, to pro-Israeli militias and the Christian-Zionist Lords” for condemnation, as well as “the Christian right wing and the followers of Jerry Falwall, Gary Bauer, Pat Robertson and John Hague.”

▪ Says “Allah aided us in conducting 9/11, destroying the Capitalist economy, catching you with your pants down, and exposing all the hypocrisy of your long-held claim to democracy and freedom.”

The theme is not new. In October 2012, when he was first allowed to wear a hunting vest to the war court he scolded the judge with this: “Your blood is not made of gold and ours is made out of water. We are all human beings.”

The Herald obtained the document from Mohammed’s lawyers after a judicially ordered 30-day review period expired. Pohl ruled on Jan. 6 that there was no “legal basis for continued sealing of the letter’s contents” but gave the prison an extra month to scrub it of sensitive information before releasing it on the Pentagon war court website whose motto is “Fairness * Transparency * Justice.”

A spokesman at the Pentagon could not explain Wednesday why the document was not yet posted on the website. The Herald asked Obama’s office on Tuesday whether the former president had read the letter. It has yet to respond.

  An excerpt from Khalid Sheik Mohammed’s letter to former President Barack Obama. 

Carol Rosenberg: 305-376-3179, @carolrosenberg


Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/guantanamo/article131466294.html#storylink=cpy

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  1. K SHESHU BABU

    February 12, 2017 at 1:05 pm

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    The letter manefests series of US government’s wrongdoings in all parts of world that led to the 9/11 incidents. The US has been responsible for the number of deaths in palestine, Syria, Iraq and other Arab countries for many years

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