The transcript, released March 19, was the fourth from closed hearings the military is holding for 14 "high-value" terrorism suspects who were kept in secret CIA prisons before they were sent to the U.S. facility in Cuba last fall.

Waleed bin Attash said he helped plan the 1998 embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania that killed more than 200 people, according to the transcript. He also said he helped organize the 2000 attack on the U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer USS Cole, in which suicide bombers steered an explosives-laden boat into the warship and caused an explosion that blew a hole in the ship's hull and killed 17 sailors.

The Japan Times Weekly: March 24, 2007
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