Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: al-Qaida in 'war of attrition' with US
The accused mastermind of the 9/11 attacks has said al-Qaida is in “a war of attrition” with the United States, in one of the only statements he has issued since his capture in 2003 and subsequent torture.
In the course of an interview with US defense attorneys for Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law filed to the New York federal court where the son-in-law faces conspiracy charges, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed mused expansively on the ideology that powered the 2001 terrorist attacks and changed the course of US foreign policy.
Throughout the interview, which was facilitated by the US military command at Guantánamo Bay where the man known internationally as “KSM” has been detained since 2006, Mohammed portrayed al-Qaida as a scrappy underdog compelled to assault a vastly more powerful US and thwart what he sees as the mastermind of global iniquity, hypocrisy and godlessness.
“The enemy occupier of the Islamic world is a super power with a budget of billions while we are a small organization whose members are limited in numbers and capabilities. There is no comparison between the two sides, so it is obvious that we would have to resort to a long war of attrition to which the military and media alike contribute,” Mohammed told attorneys for Suleiman Abu Ghaith during an interview conducted around 27 February this year.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/17/khalid-sheikh-mohammed-al-qaida