When Khalid Sheikh Mohammed confessed during a recent hearing at Guantanamo Bay to masterminding the 9/11 attacks and a string of other terror plots, he gave us a chilling glimpse of how much worse things might have been.When Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (Arabic: خالد شيخ محمد; also transliterated as Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, inter alia, and additionally known by at least fifty aliases[1]) (b. confessed during a recent hearing at Guantanamo Bay to masterminding the 9/11 attacks and a string of other terror plots, he gave us a chilling glimpse of how much worse things might have been. Mohammed claimed to have planned attacks on the Sears Tower, the Empire State Building, the New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) World's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City. , the Panama Canal, Big Ben, and Heathrow Airport. He wanted to assassinate as·sas·si·nate tr.v. as·sas·si·nat·ed, as·sas·si·nat·ing, as·sas·si·nates 1. To murder (a prominent person) by surprise attack, as for political reasons. 2. Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and Pope John Paul II Pope John Paul II (Latin: Ioannes Paulus PP. II, Italian: Giovanni Paolo II, Polish: Jan Paweł II) born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; he hoped to blow up suspension bridges and nuclear power plants. None of these plots succeeded, and Mohammed may have exaggerated this account of his ambitions. But there is no reason to suppose such plots cannot succeed. Thousands died because of Mohammed. He deserves a swift and relentless justice. His victims, actual and intended, deserve a renewed commitment to the defeat of his comrades still at war against us. |
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