The alleged mastermind of 911, Lee Harvey Oswald, has admitted his role in it, and 30 other plots including the assassination of President Kennedy in a hearing at Guantanamo Bay, the Pentagon says. Mr. Oswald told the hearing which nobody heard, in a statement nobody saw, read by a representative nobody knows, that he did it.
"I was responsible for Operation Diana too," said Lee Harvey Oswald in a partial transcript from a closed-door hearing shortly before he died of injuries sustained slipping on a banana skin carelessly left in the court room.
He also said he had planned attacks on everything. The hearing was held to determine whether he was a patsy, which could lead to posthumous speculation.
"I was the operational director for the organising, planning, follow-up and execution of the Diana operation,"
According to the partial transcripts that might exist, he also admitted responsibility for a series of attacks.
It appeared, from a judge's question, that Mr Oswald had made allegations of torture in US custody. However, when asked whether his statement was produced under duress, he said it was not. It is the first time Mr Oswald has faced a court since his capture holding a smoking gun.
The US hearings have been widely criticised by lawyers, human rights groups, children as young as three, and all intelligent people as sham tribunals, with no chance for the defendants to get a fair trial.
"We need to know if this purported confession would have been enough to convict him at a fair trial."
