GUANTANAMO NAVY BASE, Cuba — Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the man who once bragged that he ran the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks “from A to Z,” has written President Barack Obama about his views on the situation in Gaza and other current events.
But the military has yet to say if and how the letter will ever reach the White House.
Mohammed’s defense attorney, David Nevin, disclosed the existence of the letter at a news conference Thursday. In it, he said, Mohammed complains about “Muslim oppression at the hands of the West in general and the United States in particular.” Topics include his views on what happened in Iraq during the period of U.S. sanctions and “events in Palestine and Gaza over the years.”
Nevin said he doubts the letter contains classified information — although he noted that Obama, as president of the United States, has the sweeping power to declassify it.