But following his transfer to Guantanamo in September , he proudly confessed to the military court and compared himself to George Washington, fighting to escape oppression. He also claimed responsibility for 30 other operations, including Al-Qaeda-linked bombings in Bali and Kenya, and said he personally murdered the kidnapped US journalist Daniel Pearl, who was beheaded in Pakistan in In , Mohammed's lawyers were in discussions to plead guilty in exchange for a life sentence.
That deal never developed, reportedly because of opposition high in the government. In the court this week, Mohammed appeared confident and unapologetic, animatedly talking to his attorneys, defying the judge's requirement to wear a mask, and waving to two journalists in the glassed-in viewing gallery at the back of the court.
Attorneys say he almost certainly knows of the Taliban recapturing control of Afghanistan, hailed as a great victory by Al-Qaeda. The content you requested does not exist or is not available anymore. ON TV. He is accused of 2, individual counts of murder. Human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith told Euronews the reason why the US legal system has taken so long to set up a trial is because Americans were "unwilling to trust our legal system, which we've had for over years and we still can't get right".
But it's so full of huge legal mistakes that they just can't get their act in gear," he added. Asked about how to ensure Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has a fair trial, after suspicions that he was subjected to torture in Guantanamo, Smith replied that he had undergone waterboarding, a technique the US government calls "enhanced interrogation".
We didn't copy what the Inquisition called it in the Middle Ages, which was water torture. So here we are torturing people and pretending it's not torture and then thinking that we can give them a fair trial.
Cold water from a bottle that had been kept in a fridge was then poured onto the cloth by one of the guards so that I could not breathe. This obviously could only be done for one or two minutes at a time. The cloth was then removed and the bed was put in a vertical position. The whole process was then repeated during about one hour.
Injuries to wrists and ankles also occurred during the water-boarding as I struggled in the panic of not being able to breathe. Female interrogators were present during this form of ill-treatment and a doctor was always present, standing out of sight behind the head of the bed, but I saw him when he came to fix a clip to my finger which was connected to a machine.
I think it was to measure my pulse and oxygen content in my blood. So they could take me to breaking point. After each session of torture I was put into a cell where I was allowed to lie on the floor so I could sleep for a few minutes. However, due to shackles on my ankles and wrists I was never able to sleep very well.
The harshest period of interrogation was just prior to the end of this first month. The beatings became worse and I had cold water directed at me from a hose-pipe by guards while I was still in my cell.
The worst day was when I was beaten for about half an hour by one of the interrogators. My head was banged against the wall so hard it started to bleed. Cold water was poured over my head. This was then repeated with other interrogators. Finally I was taken for a session of water boarding. The torture on that day was finally stopped by the intervention of the doctor. I was allowed to sleep for about one hour and then put back in my cell standing with my hands shackled above my head.
During the harshest period of my interrogation I gave a lot of false information in order to satisfy what I believed the interrogators wished to hear in order to make the ill-treatment stop. Throughout that first month, Khaled Sheikh Mohammed says that he was given food on just two occasions. If he refused to drink, he had it forcibly poured down his throat. He was forbidden from cleaning himself after using the toilet bucket throughout the first month. He remained naked the entire time, and was subjected to artificial light and music 24 hours per day.
On 10 March , Mohammed was subject to the first of his 15 separate waterboarding sessions, CIA records noting that, taken together, these sessions saw the technique applied at least times. Citing CIA cables and interviews conducted during their investigation, the SSCI report documents in vivid detail the extent of the torture to which Khaled Sheikh Mohammed was subjected. Despite these reservations and assessments, the waterboarding of Khaled Sheikh Mohammed continued for anther 10 days.
Waterboarding was used in conjunction with other EITs and, beginning on 18 March , Mohammed was subjected to a period of sleep deprivation which would last for seven and a half days, after which came periods of intense questioning and walling. The aircraft flew a disguised flight direct to Bucharest, Romania, where some of the detainees — including Mohammed — were offloaded.
The redacted date for this rendition appears to be October
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