Inside al-Qaeda's brain?...

[Henry Hawk]

http://www.economist.com/daily/news/displaystory.cfm?story_id=8866995

The headline story is that Mr Mohammed, who did not have a lawyer present, has confessed to being an al-Qaeda leader, a friend of Osama bin Laden, and to planning the September 11th attacks on New York and Washington, DC—things that were already widely held to be true. But it is hard to know what to make of the appearance, now, of these or his other statements. He claims credit for a bafflingly large number of incidents and murders, including the 1993 attack on the World Trade Centre in New York, the nightclub bombing in Bali in 2002, terrorist attacks on Israelis and Kenyans in Kenya in 2002, and the failed "shoe bomber" attack of 2001.