Earlier in March, at a Guantanamo Bay hearing, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed confessed to masterminding the September 11th terrorist attacks, the Richard Reid shoe bombing attempt to blow up an airliner, the Bali nightclub bombing in Indonesia, the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and other failed attacks - a total of 29 terrorist acts.
"This is a major provocation. I believe it is the work of U.S. special services, targeted against Muslims," said Kamildzhan Kalandarov, chairman of the Al-Khak [Justice] all-Russian public organization.
He said it was inappropriate to discuss Khalid's guilt before the trial.
"I believe he was forced to make that confession. The problem is not that he confessed but that he has jeopardized the whole Muslim community [umma], and this could provoke a wave of Islamophobia," he said.
He said Muslims in the U.S. and other countries will again be seen as potential terrorists.
