WASHINGTON — After a decade behind bars, 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed has had a startling change of heart about killing people.
The terrorist kingpin now says in a 36-page manifesto penned in his Guantanamo cell that the Koran forbids the use of violence to convert nonbelievers to Islam.
“The holy Koran forbids us to use force as a means of converting,” he writes in the document, which was obtained by the Huffington Post after a military judge said it could be released.
The manifesto presents a breathtaking reversal for someone who boasted at a military-commission hearing in 2007 that he planned the 9/11 attacks “from A to Z.”“Happiness is not found only in money, in hearing music, in dancing, or in living a so-called ‘free life,’” he wrote.
Mohammed embraced his newfound devotion to proselytizing by trying to convince his captors that Islam is the only path to happiness.