Transcript of Al Qaeda Leader Bin Attash's Confession to U.S.S. Cole & Embassy Bombings
By Andrew Cochran
Senior Al Qaeda operative Waleed Mohammed Bin Attash (a.k.a. Tawfiq bin Attash or Tawfiq Attash Khallada) confessed to planning the October 2000 attack on the U.S.S. Cole, which killed 17 and injured 37, during a hearing at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He also said that he planned the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. Here is the complete transcript of the hearing (corrected), here is an unclassified summary released by DOD, and here is a DOD press release on the hearing.
Douglas Farah posted last week on the decision by a U.S. federal judge to hold Sudan liable for the U.S.S. Cole bombing. I posted links to the transcripts of the hearings for other high-value Al Qaeda leaders, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Here is information about bin Attash's connection to a foiled 2004 terrorist attack on the U.K. and U.S. Daveed Gartenstein-Ross posted in December on the links between the Al Qaeda 1998 embassy bombing team and Somalia's terrorists, and I posted in January after U.S. airstrikes targeted Al Qaeda's African operatives who participated in the 1998 bombings.
Archived AP picture of bin Attash
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