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Mohammed Confesses to Beheading Pearl

AP Online | March 16, 2007 | Copyright

Suspected 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed boasted at a military hearing at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba that he personally beheaded American journalist Daniel Pearl, according to a revised Pentagon transcript released Thursday.

Mohammed has been considered a suspect since shortly after the kidnapping. Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf wrote in a memoir published last year that Mohammed either killed Pearl or took part in the murder.

But Mohammed was not officially linked to Pearl's murder during Pakistani police investigations or the trial that resulted in four…

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