What, No Lindbergh Kidnapping?

So, it appears that just in time to divert us from Scooter Libby, Walter Reed, and the Abu Gonzales debacles, nee scandals, etc., we have KSM confessing to just about everything except the Kennedy and Lincoln Assassinations. KSM for those not into governmentees is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed of Al-Qaeda fame. You know the guy we have had in custody for over four years now. And whose admissions are so relevant today that they are being outed by our ever so terroristically courant government. Well it seems that not everyone is impressed or buying it

Certainly not Time Magazine as they report here:

Thursday, Mar. 15, 2007

Why KSM's Confession Rings False

By Robert Baer

It's hard to tell what the Pentagon's objective really is in releasing the transcript of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's confession. It certainly suggests the Administration is trying to blame KSM for al-Qaeda terrorism, leading us to believe we've caught the master terrorist and that al-Qaeda, and especially the ever-elusive bin Laden, is no longer a threat to the U.S.

But there is a major flaw in that marketing strategy. On the face of it, KSM, as he is known inside the government, comes across as boasting, at times mentally unstable. It's also clear he is making things up. I'm told by people involved in the investigation that KSM was present during Wall Street Journal correspondent Danny Pearl's execution but was in fact not the person who killed him. There exists videotape footage of the execution that minimizes KSM's role. And if KSM did indeed exaggerate his role in the Pearl murder, it raises the question of just what else he has exaggerated, or outright fabricated.

Just as importantly, there is an absence of collateral evidence that would support KSM's story. KSM claims he was "responsible for the 9/11 operation from A-Z." Yet he has omitted details that would support his role. For instance, one of the more intriguing mysteries is who recruited and vetted the fifteen Saudi hijackers, the so-called "muscle." The well-founded suspicion is that Qaeda was running a cell inside the Kingdom that spotted these young men and forwarded them to al-Qaeda. KSM and al-Qaeda often appear bumbling, but they would never have accepted recruits they couldn't count on. KSM does not offer us an answer as to how this worked.

KSM has also not offered evidence of state support to al-Qaeda, though there is good evidence there was, even at a low level. KSM himself was harbored by a member of Qatar's royal family after he was indicted in the U.S. for the Bojinka plot — a plan to bomb twelve American airplanes over the Pacific. KSM and al-Qaeda also received aid from supporters in Pakistan, quite possibly from sympathizers in the Pakistani intelligence service. KSM provides no details that would suggest we are getting the full story from him.

Although he claims to have been al-Qaeda's foreign operations chief, he has offered no information about European networks. Today, dozens of investigations are going on in Great Britain surrounding the London tube bombings on July 7, 2005. Yet KSM apparently knew nothing about these networks or has not told his interrogators about them.

The fact is al-Qaeda is too smart to put all of its eggs in one basket. It has not and does not have a field commander, the role KSM has arrogated. It works on the basis of "weak links," mounting terrorist operations by bringing in people on an ad hoc basis, and immediately disbanding the group afterwards.

Until we hear more, the mystery of who KSM is and what he was responsible for is still a mystery.

Now say I wasn’t calling Oliver Stone on this one, I find it interesting that Time is! Not that I am not calling on Mr. Stone, mind you. But, doesn’t it seem just a bit too convenient that his confession is coming out in a week when all hell has broken loose for the Whitehouse what pardon talk being all the rage now that Scooter has been convicted of multiple felonies and what with abusing War Heros at Walter Reed, U.S. Attorneys at the DOJ, and the Constitutional process and all.

Memo to Karl: Smoke and Mirrors just isn’t what it use to be!

Just saying!