News out of Guantanamo indicates Khalid Sheikh Mohammad has confessed to planning both World Trade Center attacks, not exactly news to anyone that he was involved in both, but I had no clue he plotted to assassinate President Clinton and President Carter, quite obviously before the latter jumped the shark.*

Mohammad was a busy bee planning 29 attacks that never actually happened. Among those plots are the following:

• Shoe bomber operation to bring down two American airplanes.
• Planning an assassination attempt againt Pope John Paul II while he was visiting the Philippines.
• Filki Island operation in Kuwait that killed two American soldiers.
• Bombing of nightclub in Bali, Indonesia in 2002.
• Planning new wave of attacks on the following skyscrapers following 9/11: Library Tower in Calif., Sears Tower in Chicago, Plaza Bank in Washington state and the Empire State Building in New York City.
• Destruction of many nightclubs frequented by American and British citizens in Thailand.
• Planning and financing the destruction of U.S. embassies in Indonesia, Australia and Japan.
• Surveying and financing the destruction of Israeli embassies in India, Azerbaijan, the Philippines and Australia.
• Sending several mujahedeen into Israel to conduct surveillance to hit strategic targets in the country.
• Bombing of hotel in Mombassa, Kenya that is frequented by Jewish travelers.
• Financing attacks on several American, Jewish and British targets in Turkey.
• Planning, surveying and financing attacks on NATO headquarters in Europe.

On 9/11, Mohammad said, “I was responsible for the 9/11 operation from A to Z.” Well, I guess there’s still room for Bu$h or KKKarl Rove somewhere in there.

Now we know the hearings will be criticized from the usual suspects because they are not open to the public, and those same suspects will call transcripts released to be completely fabricated, but get a load of a lawyer for two of the detainees.

Mark Denbeaux, a Seton Hall University law professor who represents two Tunisians held at Guantanamo, said that based on the transcripts, Mohammed might be the only detainee who would qualify as an enemy combatant.

“The government has finally brought someone into Gitmo who apparently admits to being someone who could be called an enemy combatant,” Denbeaux, a critic of most of the detentions, said in a telephone interview from London. “None of the others rise to this level. The government has now got one.”

That’s an interesting definition for the term ‘enemy combatant.’ According to Denbeaux, ‘enemy combatant’ also means murderer rather than those who are fighting in a war. Of course that’s a brief view into Denbeaux’s future defense, and I’m no lawyer, but I’d say he’s going to have a tough time with that one.

In other terrorism related news, Chiquita bananas are worse than Dole.

*There can be serious debate about when this occured, whether pre or post-peanut, but in this instance I am referring to Carter’s more open hostility towards Israel. Mohammad at least planned on attacking Israel, whereas the rest of Al Qaida just uses it as a talking point, and a talking point in which Carter feeds into like the useful idiot he is.

UPDATE: The Pentagon has created a page to track the tribunals complete with transcripts.