Khalid Sheikh Mohammed recently confessed to plotting the 9/11 attack. In his words, "I was responsible for the 9/11 operation, from A to Z." But he didn't just stop there. He also took credit for several other executed and non-executed attacks, including the death of Daniel Pearl, the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the Bali nightclub bombings.

While his confession may bring comfort and relief to Americans, others are saying his confession rings false. Sheikh Mohammed is being held at the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, which is where he confessed. These camps are infamous for allegedly torturing their prisoners.

Former prisoners have described being forced to watch people die, walk on glass, experience food and water deprivation and electrical shocks. While Sheikh Mohammed made allegations of torture while in U.S. custody, he also stated his statement wasn't made while under torture. But his allegations are enough to turn heads.

Two senators are calling for an investigation to Sheikh Mohammed's allegations. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) watched him confess to 9/11 and the other attacks and believed an investigation was warranted.

They released a joint statement: "To do otherwise would reflect poorly on our nation." The senators should be commended for stepping forward and saying something, instead of pretending to not hear that bit of his confession.

But this all seems a little too planned. All of this seems theatrical. No one more than Americans want to find out who is responsible for 9/11. If this confession is true, then Americans, particularly the people who have directly suffered as a result of the attack, may be able to move forward. But what if this confession is false? What if this man just wants to take credit for someone else's doing?

In the American world, this may be confusing because who would want to take credit for such an atrocious attack? But for terrorists, they're proud of what they've done and for Sheikh Mohammed, he may view 9/11 as something to be hailed. If other terrorists believe he's responsible for it, they will look up to him even more.

But beyond that, the White House administration is aware what a confession might symbolize and mean to the American public. If this confession is true, my own approval for Bush would increase. Is this just a ploy to get approval ratings up?

What is fact is that his statement seems sketchy. He took credit for many attacks, and his words seem false. They don't seem genuine and it's not just because he's not remorseful. They seem practiced, rehearsed. Perhaps the detention officers wrote it down for him and made him memorize it.

But if he really did plan the 9/11 attack, why would he then admit to so many more attacks? If he is tried in court and found guilty for the 9/11 attack, it would seem to stand that he would be in prison for life, with no chance for parole, or be given the death penalty. However, why not wait to confess? Why give a judge or jury, or whomever, more ammunition to send you to the chair?

How many other confessions were potentially made under torture? How many have died who didn't deserve to? Let me make this clear: I have enough faith in the American system to believe that if a person believed to be a terrorist is detained, then that person is not innocent. However, that person may not be guilty for the things he or she admitted to. That person may be guilty of assisting in an attack, but maybe he's not responsible for planning the attack. Those would be two very different confessions and while they may warrant the same sentence, lies are not going to help anyone. Even if it's hard to hear the fact that we still don't know who planned 9/11, should we just pretend a confession is true, just to move past it?

Turning our heads isn't going to help prevent other attacks, in fact, it hinders in prevention. Because if Sheikh Mohammed's statement is false, as I personally believe, then whoever did plan 9/11 is running around, laughing because he's still getting away with it.

Whoever planned the attack needs to be caught. Then he needs to confess. But before we send him to the chair, we need to have some sort of evidence, some proof beyond a confession that not only are we sentencing the right person, but we don't have to keep looking for the man that destroyed the World Trade Center and the thousands of lives that perished within.