List of confessions – Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

  • The February 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York City
  • A failed “shoe bomber” operation
  • The October 2002 attack in Kuwait
  • The nightclub bombing in Bali, Indonesia
  • A plan for a “second wave” of attacks on major U.S. landmarks to be set in the spring or summer of 2002 after the 9/11 attacks, which includes more hijackings of commercial airlines and having them flown into various buildings in the U.S. including the Library Tower in Los Angeles, the Sears Tower in Chicago, the Plaza Bank building in Seattle and the Empire State Building in New York
  • Plots to attack oil tankers and U.S. naval ships in the Straits of Hormuz, the Straits of Gibraltar and in Singapore
  • A plan to blow up the Panama Canal
  • Plans to assassinate former U.S. presidents
  • A plot to blow up suspension bridges in New York City
  • A plan to destroy the Sears Tower in Chicago with burning fuel trucks
  • Plans to “destroy” Heathrow Airport, Canary Wharf and Big Ben in London
  • A planned attack on “many” nightclubs in Thailand
  • A plot targeting the New York Stock Exchange and other U.S. financial targets
  • A plan to destroy buildings in Eilat, Israel
  • Plans to destroy U.S. embassies in Indonesia, Australia and Japan in 2002.
  • Plots to destroy Israeli embassies in India, Azerbaijan, the Philippines and Australia
  • Surveying and financing an attack on an Israeli El-Al flight from Bangkok
  • Sending several “mujahideen” into Israel to survey “strategic targets” with the intention of attacking them
  • The November 2002 suicide bombing of a hotel in Mombasa, Kenya
  • The failed attempt to shoot down an Israeli passenger jet leaving Mombasa airport in Kenya
  • Plans to attack U.S. targets in South Korea
  • Providing financial support for a plan to attack U.S., British and Jewish targets in Turkey
  • Surveillance of U.S. nuclear power plants in order to attack them
  • A plot to attack NATO’s headquarters in Europe
  • Planning and surveillance in a 1995 plan (the “Bojinka Operation”) to bomb 12 American passenger jets
  • The planned assassination attempt against then-U.S. President Bill Clinton during a mid-1990s trip to the Philippines.
  • “Shared responsibility” for a plot to kill Pope John Paul II
  • Plans to assassinate Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf
  • An attempt to attack a U.S. oil company in Sumatra, Indonesia, “owned by the Jewish former [U.S.] Secretary of State Henry Kissinger”
  • The beheading of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl
    Source: BBC

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