9/11 Architect Tells Court He Hopes for Martyrdom

Officials have said Mohammed originally suggested the hijacking plot against U.S. interests to bin Laden. Mohammed allegedly admitted his role to U.S. interrogators after facing an extreme interrogation regimen that included waterboarding, or simulated drowning. The CIA has acknowledged that he was subjected to "the waterboard" but has not detailed other aspects of his detention.

Shortly after his transfer, along with 13 others, from secret CIA custody to Guantanamo in September 2006, Mohammed told a Combatant Status Review Tribunal that he was responsible for numerous terrorist attacks and plots around the world, including "the 9/11 operation, from A to Z." He said the plan to hijack airplanes and fly them into major U.S. landmarks was an act of war against an oppressor, and described himself as the operations director.

Binalshibh allegedly was the primary communications intermediary between the Sept. 11 hijackers and al-Qaeda leadership in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and had close ties to hijacker Mohamed Atta, whom he met in Hamburg, Germany, in 1995.

Hawsawi, 39, of Saudi Arabia, allegedly helped finance the attacks, working with Mohammed to move money to the hijackers and help facilitate their travel into the United States. He allegedly told U.S. interrogators that he bought airplane tickets for some of the hijackers in the United Arab Emirates and was in close contact with Atta in the days before Sept. 11, according to an affidavit filed in federal court as part of the case against convicted conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui.

Baluchi, 29, of Pakistan, is Mohammed's nephew and a cousin of convicted World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef. U.S. officials allege that he moved money to the hijackers and acted as a travel facilitator.

Bin Attash is accused of taking part in the Sept. 11 attacks by trying to obtain a U.S. visa, by conducting reconnaissance on U.S. airliners in Asia to assess in-flight security and by helping to identify potential hijackers. Allegedly a bodyguard for bin Laden and a jihadist fighter, bin Attash lost his right leg during a battlefield accident in Afghanistan in 1997.

Staff writer Carrie Johnson and staff researcher Julie Tate, both in Washington, contributed to this report.