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9/11 Mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Testifies at Guantanamo Trial

For the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, a fellow Guantanamo inmate now facing trial was too "primitive" and uneducated to consider involving him in Al Qaeda's terrorist plots.Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, once the terror network's No. 3 leader, ridiculed Salim Hamdan's credentials in testimony Friday supporting the defendant's claim that he was merely a member of Usama bin Laden's motor pool."He was not a soldier, he was a driver," Mohammed said in a four-page transcript of his written testimony.Attorneys for Hamdan presented Mohammed's account as their final evidence at the first U.S. war crimes trial since World War II. A jury of six American military officers is scheduled to hear the judge's instructions and begin deliberations on Monday.Hamdan, a Yemeni with a fourth-grade education, faces a maximum life sentence if convicted of conspiracy and supporting terrorism.During the two-week presentation of trial evidence, Hamdan's interrogators testified that he carried a pistol to protect ...

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