Reply #72: How does anyone know that the voices are those of KSM and Ramzi Binalshibh?

[Diane_nyc]

Hi!

I would say that the main thing that casts doubt on the interview is simply the distortion of the voices. Because the voices are distorted, there is no way of knowing for sure who those guys are. How does anyone know whether they are, in fact, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Ramzi Binalshibh?

Even if we assume that the voices on the tape are those of genuine Al Qaeda members, is it not reasonable to suspect that those guys might have misled Fouda as to their personal identity, given all the other security measures they took? Perhaps they might even have tried to frame some totally innocent people, in order to throw the CIA off the trail? After all, assuming that the Al Qaeda folks had any brains, surely they would suspect that Al Jazeera might be infiltrated by the CIA, and surely they would do whatever they could to mislead the CIA.

To me the above is more convincing, as a reason to doubt the tape's validity as evidence against KSM and Ramzi Binalshibh, than Fouda's admitted/claimed lie about the date. We simply don't yet have any verifiable evidence that the voices on the tape are those of KSM and Ramzi Binalshibh.

Anyhow, if indeed that tape plus KSM's confession under torture are our sole evidence that KSM was "the 9/11 mastermind," then I agree with you that the case against KSM is very weak indeed.

Is anyone here aware of any other evidence of KSM's guilt? If so, please tell us about it, and please be specific.

Of course, it's entirely possible that the CIA has secret evidence that they can't reveal without revealing sources and methods. But we certainly should not put blind faith in alleged secret evidence. If anyone here does put blind faith in possible secret evidence, well, I've got some Iraqi WMD's for sale....

Note: I'm not one of those folks who believe that there was no real Al Qaeda terror plot. The reality of an Al Qaeda terror plot seems far more likely, to me, than any alternative hypothesis that has been proposed. But this doesn't necessarily mean we know for sure the identities of all the plotters. Until and unless KSM et al receive due process, we won't know for sure whether they personally are guilty.