USS Cole Mastermind Confessed at Gitmo Hearing
Charles Johnson
Mon Mar 19, 2007 at 3:21 pm PDT • Views: 320
Of course, we know he was subjected to brutal tortures like Harry Potter readings, hellishly loud Captain and Tenille recordings, and the monstrous belly slap, but the mastermind of the USS Cole bombing apparently confessed to the mass murder during his tribunal at Gitmo. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)
An enemy combatant who has confessed to planning the bombing of the USS Cole says he bought the boat and the explosives and that he was with Osama bin Laden in Kandahar, Afghanistan, when the bombing was carried out in October 2000.
Waleed Mohammed Bin Attash confessed to planning the attack on the destroyer that killed 17 sailors in the Gulf of Aden in Yemen.
During the enemy combatant tribunal at Guantanamo Bay, the tribunal president asked Attash what his role was in the Cole bombing.
“Many roles,” he said, according to a transcript of the tribunal proceeding released by the Pentagon. “I participated in the buying or purchasing of the explosives. I put together the plan for the operation a year and a half prior to the operation, buying the boat and recruiting the members that did the operation.”
Frank says: