WASHINGTON, March 14 (UPI) -- Khalid Sheik Mohammed has confessed to a list of terrorist activities, including the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, in a military hearing at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Mohammed, long considered a main organizer of the Sept. 11 attacks, claimed some degree of responsibility for more than 30 other terrorist attacks or planned attacks, in a transcript of Saturday's hearing released by the Pentagon Wednesday.
He told the hearing his actions were part of a military campaign, The New York Times reported.
"I'm not happy that 3,000 been killed in America," he said. "I feel sorry even. I don't like to kill children and the kids."
He said "the language of war is victims," the newspaper reported.
The confession was the first time Mohammed described in his own words a long list of terrorist activities -- including plans to bomb New York and London landmarks and to assassinate Pope John Paul II and former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, the Times said.
He said some past statements he has made to CIA interrogators were made after he was tortured, but the Pentagon transcript has him saying that his statements at the military hearing Saturday did not involve duress or pressure.
