9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s sickening confession to beheading an American – as he agrees to plead guilty to the attack

The mastermind behind the 9/11 terrorist attacks once made a horrifying confession to investigators about the beheading of an American journalist.

Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the alleged orchestrator of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the U.Sreached a plea deal with Guantanamo Bay prosecutors that will allow him and his co-conspirators to avoid the death penalty.

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Mohammed, 59, and accomplices Walid bin Attash and Mustafa al-Hawsawi agreed to plead guilty to the murder of 2,976 people during the 2001 attacks.

In exchange, the three suspected terrorists will serve life sentences in the southern part of the US naval base in Cuba.

Prosecutors said the deal was made to bring some “finality and justice to the case,” which has remained in the judicial process since the three men were arrested by U.S. authorities in 2003.

Mohammed was held in secret CIA prisons until his transfer to Guantánamo Bay in September 2006.

But before they were transferred to Guantánamo, government officials interrogated Mohammed and his accomplices for years, torturing them and keeping them isolated in undisclosed locations.

Mohammed endured 183 rounds of waterboarding – a form of torture in which a person experiences the sensation of drowning when water is poured onto a cloth covering their face.

SICK CONFESSION

Mohammed told US interrogators at Guantanamo Bay how he beheaded an American journalist in 2002 despite being warned by a senior al Qaeda military commander, according to documents published by WikiLeaks in 2011.

The commander strongly warned Mohammed about the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl after he was kidnapped by Islamic militants in Karachi, Pakistan, in January 2002.

The anonymous commander advised Mohammed that it would be best if Pearl were “returned to one of the previous groups that held him, or released.”

However, Mohammed told American interrogators that he ignored the warning and decapitated Pearl, according to the documents.

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