Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Claims

I found a transcript of the "Combatant Status Review Tribunal Hearing" for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed here. It's 26 pages and a few things just seem wrong. First off, the names of all personnel are redacted. Second they make clear that this is the unclassified portion and that there is another classified portion of the hearing and evidence. So we have secret anonymous trials.

The tribunal is to determine if KSM is an enemy combatant. I might have misunderstood something but it begins with a presentation of evidence against KSM, mostly things he supposedly said to others and a lot of info gathered from his computer. He's asked if he has comments and one of them is that it wasn't his computer and wants to call two witnesses. He is denied this because the president of the hearing found it "not relevant to status". If this evidence is relevant enough to be presented why isn't counter-evidence?

As to the claims that he was involved in 31 terrorist actions they seem real. He speaks some english and has the aid of a translator. The list is his statement, it's read for him and he even makes some corrections as the list is read saying "I was not responsible, but share" (this referring to an attempt to assassinate Pope John Paul II while visiting the Philippines). He says he was tortured but that is for a later trial, and he admits these claims freely. Ok.

He gives a long closing statement saying that he's at war with the US and this is the way of war. He regrets killing children during his acts but that's what happens in war and that even the US has been responsible for the killing of children in Iraq. He says they are revolutionaries like George Washington was and they try to pick military, economic and political targets. He says he was the friend of the US while in Afghanistan fighting the Russians but now that's changed, and that many Afghani's who have been captured aren't enemies of the US but merely caught up in the battle. Also, that the US needs to distinguish between Afghani's, Taliban and al Qaeda, that they are all different.

It seems KSM is an evil man responsible for horrible terrorist acts. It's also clear that he understands more than many Americans. I saw some survey recently (sorry can't find a reference) that showed some large number of US military in Iraq think we're there for revenge of 9/11. The sorry thing about this is that KSM is so probably guilty, why are we screwing up the trials with secret evidence and anonymous judges?