Tortured detainee confesses to secret tribunal that he was behind USS Cole bombing
Detainee confesses to USS Cole bombing - Yahoo! News
Torture. Secret tribunal. Lack of evidence. A confession made under duress is inadmissible. etc. etc.
WASHINGTON - Waleed bin Attash, a suspected key al-Qaida operative, confessed to plotting the bombings of the
USS Cole and two U.S. embassies in Africa, according to a
Pentagon transcript of a hearing at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
More than 200 were killed in the simultaneous attacks on the embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998. And 17 sailors were killed and dozens injured when suicide bombers steered an explosives-laden boat into the guided missile destroyer Cole on Oct. 12, 2000.
"I participated in the buying or purchasing of the explosives," bin Attash said when asked what his role was in the attacks. "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."
