By The Associated Press GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) - Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the reputed mastermind of the Sept.

By Alan Gomez GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba -- Khalid Sheikh Mohammed said Thursday that he would embrace the death penalty for his role in planning the 9/11 terrorist attacks, which killed nearly 3,000 people. He said he has hoped to become a martyr throughout his five years in U.S. detention.

By MICHAEL HOWIE WEARING thick glasses and fussing with his turban, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed bore little resemblance to the slovenly, scruffy man whose image was beamed around the world following his capture in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi five years ago.

By Carol Rosenberg, The Miami Herald Jun. 5--GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba -- GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba -- Defiant, confessed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed went before a military judge on Thursday, refused his U.S. defense counsel and said he would welcome a death sentence.

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba _ Defiant, confessed Sept. 11 attacks mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed went before a military judge on Thursday, refused his U.S. defense counsel and said he would welcome a death sentence.