9/11 mastermind's 31 plots

2007-03-16 15:37

The 31 plots that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed said he helped organise, according to a defence department transcript of a statement he made during a hearing at Guantanamo Bay prison:

Truck bombing the World Trade Centre in 1993.

The September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States.

Beheading American journalist Daniel Pearl in Pakistan in 2002.

The plot to use shoe bombs to blow up two American planes, not just the trans-Atlantic flight on which would-be British shoe-bomber Richard Reid was caught in 2001.

The "Filka Island Operation" that killed at least one American soldier in Kuwait in 2002.

A Bali, Indonesia, nightclub bombing. In 2002, 202 were killed when two nightclubs there were bombed.

A plot for a post-September 11 round of skyscraper attacks targeting the Library Tower in Los Angeles, the Sears Tower in Chicago, the Plaza Bank building in Seattle and the Empire State Building in New York City.

A plan to attack US military ships and oil tankers in the Straits of Hormuz, the Straits of Gibraltar and the Port of Singapore.

A plot to bomb the Panama Canal.

A plot to assassinate a number of former American presidents, including Jimmy Carter.

A plot to bomb suspension bridges in New York.

A plan to use burning fuel trucks to take down the Sears Tower.

A plot to obliterate London-area landmarks Heathrow Airport, Big Ben and Canary Wharf.

A plan to attack nightclubs visited by British and American citizens in Thailand.

A plot to attack the New York Stock Exchange and "other financial targets" post-September 11.

A plot to use planes departing Saudi Arabia to destroy buildings in Elat, Israel.

A plan to attack US embassies in Indonesia, Japan and Australia.

A plot to attack Israeli embassies in India, Azerbaijan, Australia and the Philippines.

A plan to destroy an Israeli El Al plane departing from Bangkok, Thailand.

Sending "several mujahadeen" to Israel to survey potential targets.

Bombing a beach resort in Mombasa, Kenya, in 2002.

An almost simultaneous, failed attempt to hit an Israeli passenger jet using a surface-to-air missile after it took off from Mombasa.

Plans to target American military bases and nightclubs visited by American troops in South Korea.

Plans to attack American and British sites as well as Jewish targets in Turkey.

Plans to target nuclear power plants in the United States.

A plot to attack Nato headquarters in Brussels.

The Bojinka Operation to take down 12 American planes, specifically monitoring a round-trip flight between Manila in the Philippines and Seoul, South Korea.

A plot to assassinate then-President Clinton during a visit to the Philippines.

A plan to assassinate Pope John Paul II during his visit to the Philippines in 1995.

A plot to assassinate Pakistan's president, General Pervez Musharraf.

A plan to attack an oil company on Sumatra, Indonesia, that he said was owned by former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger.

- AP