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mfcorey1

(11,001 posts)
Thu Feb 9, 2017, 06:05 AM Feb 2017

Exclusive: Alleged mastermind tells Obama 9/11 was America's fault

MIAMI — 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, whom 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 Guantanamo prison to deliver it days before Obama left office.

In it, the man on trial for his life at Guantanamo 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.

"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 Guantanamo 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 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.

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.


http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/exclusive-alleged-mastermind-tells-obama-9-11-was-americas-fault/ar-AAmJR57?li=BBnb4R7

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Exclusive: Alleged mastermind tells Obama 9/11 was America's fault (Original Post) mfcorey1 Feb 2017 OP
Sure it was. Then why excoriate Obama? His reactions would be Khalid's fault, jmg257 Feb 2017 #1
Trial? 1965Comet Feb 2017 #2
W Bush jaxind Feb 2017 #3
fuck him, as if he gives a shit about palestinians or anyone else. did he say anything about Malala JI7 Feb 2017 #4
Well....he seems nice. Nt Tommy_Carcetti Feb 2017 #5
I'm sure Obama gave the letter Ilsa Feb 2017 #6

jmg257

(11,996 posts)
1. Sure it was. Then why excoriate Obama? His reactions would be Khalid's fault,
Thu Feb 9, 2017, 06:45 AM
Feb 2017

Or Osama's, or whatever other extremist asses kill innocents around the world.
With no trial, by the way.

Screw him.

 

1965Comet

(175 posts)
2. Trial?
Thu Feb 9, 2017, 07:05 AM
Feb 2017

"can kill his enemy without trial"

He acknowledges that it is a "war", but complains when Obama kills a leader on his side without a trial? Fuck this guy...

JI7

(89,248 posts)
4. fuck him, as if he gives a shit about palestinians or anyone else. did he say anything about Malala
Thu Feb 9, 2017, 07:23 AM
Feb 2017

in the letter ?

Ilsa

(61,695 posts)
6. I'm sure Obama gave the letter
Thu Feb 9, 2017, 07:51 AM
Feb 2017

All of the erious thought it deserves. And then he went kite-surfing with Branson.

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