Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the suspected planner of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, admitted during a military tribunal last weekend that he killed Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, according to a revised transcript of the hearing that confirmed long held suspicions about his role in the slaying.The al Qaeda operative said he cut off Pearl's head after the journalist was kidnapped during a reporting trip to Pakistan in 2002.
"I decapitated with my blessed right hand the head of the American Jew, Daniel Pearl, in the city of Karachi, Pakistan," he said in a statement delivered by a U.S. officer serving as his personal representative. "For those who would like to confirm, there are pictures of me on the Internet holding his head."
The admission was originally blocked out of a hearing transcript released Wednesday by the Pentagon, giving the impression that Mohammed was implicating others in the slaying. But department officials released a mostly uncensored version Thursday after notifying Pearl's family that the statement would be included.
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