Walid bin Attash

Uh, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and correct my, my pronunciations.

Walid bin Attash, he's, uh, originally from Saudi Arabia, 48 years old.

Why is he there?

Bin Attash, um, is suspected of being, of helping with some of the early planning, including training of hijackers and casing of flights, sort of testing out, looking at flight timetables.

Um, so that's sort of his role, early planning.

Uh, he's also the, the, the thing most often said about Bin Attash is that he's suspected of playing a role also in the October... having some type of role in the planning for the bombing of the USS Cole.

And a lot of people thought that he would be a candidate perhaps for that case as opposed to the 9/11 case.

But in any event, he's not charged in the USS Cole bombing case.

3,000 Americans were killed in the September 11th, 2001 terror attacks on the Twin Towers in New York, the Pentagon, and a down plane in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

Walid bin Attash is accused of helping train two of the hijackers.

Quote, "Tell the judge that I am very proud for my part in the planes operation," Walid bin Attash said to federal agents on January 24th, 2007, the first day of interrogations, according to The New York Times.

The judge, Lieutenant Colonel Michael Shaermire, ruled that bin Attash's previous confessions to the CIA were coerced and therefore not admissible.

This is the latest blow to the federal government.

In fact, it's a fundamental contrast to the Democrats on something else.

I wanna take you back to July of 2024 when, under the guidance of the Biden administration, military prosecutors and Pentagon officials overseeing the Guantanamo Bay military commissions approved plea agreements sparing the lives of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the accused 9/11 mastermind, and his two co-defendants, Walid Bin Attash and Mustafa al-Hawsawi.

In exchange for guilty pleas on all charges, including the murda- murder of 2,976 people listed in the charge sheet, the deals removed the death penalty and limited them to sentences of life in prison.

Folks, what kind of signal did that weakness send to the Middle East, where they'll throw you off a building to your death for being gay, where they'll hang you from a crane for refusing to wear your hijab, where they'll gun you down in the street for simply refusing to go along with their political program? The signal is this: absolute and complete weakness, which they see as capitulation to Islam and the divine will of Allah, once again sparing the life of his humble jihadi servants through miracles.

The statements were obtained through a program designed by former President Bush's administration lawyers in two thousand and seven because the defendant's previous statement to the CIA was considered coerced and could not be used against them.

The judge ruled that the agents failed to notify Walid Bin Attash that what the CIA extracted from him from two thousand and three to two thousand and six in forced interrogations could not be used against him, and also found that when FBI agents brought treats to their interrogation room to gain Bin Attash's cooperation, they were copying a technique sometimes used by the CIA to keep a prisoner confessing.

Carol Rosenberg reports for The New York Times.

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