The alleged mastermind of the 11 September 2001 attacks – Khalid Sheikh Mohammed – wrote a letter to President Barack Obama in 2015 that accused the US of inviting attacks, which he refers to as a "natural reaction" to "destructive policies."
The 18-page letter is dated January 2015, but wasn’t sent to the White House until a military judge ordered for it to be delivered just days before Obama left office last month. Officials at Guantanamo Bay, where he’s a detainee, had refused to deliver the letter because they thought it could be considered propaganda.
The Kuwait-born Pakistani citizen of Baluch ethnic background, lists a long litany of US overseas interventions – from Iraq and Iran to Vietnam and Hiroshima – to justify the worst terror attack on US soil.
On the Iraq War
“You turned Iraq into a blood-soaked canvas. Did your predecessor find any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? No, but they found an excellent site for the largest American embassy in the world”
You and your allies have broken Iraq into a thousand pieces.”
On Bin Laden’s Death
The entire world watched your morals in that when you made a decision to kill Sheikh Osama bin Laden without trial and watched the lawyer-president make a decision to throw his body in the sea
On Civilian Deaths
Osama Bin Laden succeeded in targeting New York City, the capital of your economy, without destroying any schools, hospitals, retirement homes or churches, nor any residential area in a city with a population of over eight million.
The US Air Force, where 100 percent of the victims of many of their bombardments were children, for e.g., the 12 children killed in Kunar Province while they were collecting firewood, the 23 women and children killed in Yemen, and those killed at a wedding ceremony in Nangarhar Province
On US Foreign Policy
You have escaped from being prosecuted for your own brutal and savage massacres against the American Indian and your crimes in Vietnam, Korea, Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Dresden and Latin America.
You can keep your military bases in Japan, Germany, Italy and elsewhere, but Muslim land will never accept infidels’ army bases in their land.
On the Palestine Issue
You have been killing Muslims in Palestine for 60 years: expelling more than 4 million Palestinians; destroying their homes, schools, mosques and markets by supporting Israel militarily, economically and politically.
On Abraham Lincoln and the Media
You and your mass media are experts in distorting the facts and colouring things to deceive your nation and hide your crimes. As President Abraham Lincoln said, “You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time”.
(With inputs from NDTV)
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