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  Khalid Shaikh Mohammed - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mohammed is thought to have been born in the Baluchistan region of Pakistan, and spent some of his formative years in Kuwait.
Mohammed is usually reported to have been born in the Baluchistan region of Pakistan.
Mohammed conspired with Ramzi Yousef on the plot until it was uncovered on January 6, 1995.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Khalid_Shaikh_Mohammed   (2578 words)

  
 Khalid Shaikh Mohammed
The No. 3 man in al Qaeda, Khalid Mohammed is the one man most directly responsible for the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Despite the international manhunt, Khalid continued to travel and to instigate attacks on the U.S. According to the international press, Khalid's Pakistan-based al Qaeda cell sent "dirty bomber" Jose Padilla to the United States in 2002 (where he was promptly captured).
Khalid was also directly tied to a major bombing of nightclubs in Bali and a truck-bomb attack on the U.S. embassy in Karachi, both of which were executed using fertilizer bombs of the same type used in the Oklahoma City bombing.
www.rotten.com /library/bio/crime/terrorists/mohammed-shaikh-khalid   (1720 words)

  
 Khalid Shaikh Mohammed   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
At the time Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was at a lavish apartment across the street a person that would become the President the Philippines.
Qudoos' told media that Mohammed was not in house that Qudoos was disabled and had been associated with al-Qaeda and that the conducting the raids did not ask for Other newspaper accounts said that former Taliban officials in Pakistan said that Mohammed not captured and was still at large.
Many reports have indicated that Mohammed was an asset or a member of the ISI during the 1980s or 1990s and he has carried a Pakistani passport since 1980s.
www.freeglossary.com /Khalid_Shaikh_Mohammed   (1185 words)

  
 Engineer Khalid Shaikh Mohammed
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was born in 1965, according to records, and reared in Fahaheel, a busy oil settlement south of Kuwait City, on the road to Saudi Arabia.
Mohammed's oldest brother, Zahed Shaikh, attended Kuwait University in the 1980s and was a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood -- a militant pan-Arab organization that functioned as an underground opposition throughout the region.
Mohammed moved his base of operations to Karachi, the metropolis of Pakistan's southern seaboard, with direct flights throughout the Gulf, to Europe, to Southeast Asia, to Africa and the Americas.
www.engology.com /eng5mohammed.htm   (8867 words)

  
 CNN.com - Khalid Shaikh Mohammed: life of terror - Sep. 23, 2003
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed is one of Osama bin Laden's most trusted associates and his name is linked to most of al Qaeda's recent operations.
Mohammed has also been linked to the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000; Richard Reid's foiled 2001 attempt to blow up an airliner with a shoe bomb; and most recently, the bombings at the El Ghriba synagogue, in Djerba, Tunisia and the Bali bombings last year.
Mohammed was indicted on seven counts of terror conspiracy for his role in the plot.
edition.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/asiapcf/south/03/02/mohammed.biog   (1033 words)

  
 Khalid Shaikh Mohammed
Many reports have indicated that Mohammed was either an asset or a member of the ISI during the 1980s or 1990s, and that he has carried a Pakistani passport since the 1980s.
Mohammed is also widely described as living a lavish lifestyle, even while he was on the run from the law.
Mohammed is also a suspect in the USS Cole bombing, the Tunisian synagogue bombing, and the murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl in Pakistan.
www.fastload.org /kh/Khalid_Shaikh_Mohammed.html   (575 words)

  
 Chicago, L.A. towers were next targets - The Washington Times: World   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the alleged Sept. 11 mastermind, is seen shortly after his capture.
LONDON — Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, al Qaeda's purported operations chief, has told U.S. interrogators that the group had been planning attacks on the Library Tower in Los Angeles and the Sears Tower in Chicago on the heels of the September 11, 2001, terror strikes.
Mohammed told interrogators that he and Ramzi Yousuf, his nephew who was behind an earlier attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, had leafed through almanacs of American skyscrapers when planning the first operation.
www.washtimes.com /world/20040330-120655-9785r.htm   (822 words)

  
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Khalid Shaikh Mohammed (also known as Ashraf Refaat Nabith Henin, Khalid Adbul Wadood, Salem Ali, Abdul Majid, Abdullah al-Fak'asi al-Ghamdior, Fahd Bin Adballah Bin Khalid, and 27 other aliases) is the military head of Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network.
Mohammed, who seemed to have found his calling as a terrorist, was now simultaneously plotting multiple acts of murder, including the assasination of Pope John Paul II and a failed plot to assassinate President Clinton during his 1994 trip to Manilla.
Mohammed initially resisted joining because he needed to be sure that bin Laden was really committed to terrorist attacks against the United States.
www.discoverthenetwork.org /individualProfile.asp?indid=745   (1480 words)

  
 TIMELINE ENTRIES ABOUT 9/11 MASTERMIND KHALID SHAIKH MOHAMMED
1 and 2) Hijackers Nawaf Alhazmi and Khalid Almihdhar.
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed is publicly identified as the "mastermind" behind the 9/11 attacks.
Mohammed is Pakistani (thought born in Kuwait [CBS, 6/5/02]) and a relative of Ramzi Yousef, the bomber of the WTC in 1993.
s3.amazonaws.com /911timeline/main/khalidshaikhmohammed.html   (4617 words)

  
 Mansoor Ijaz on Khalid Shaikh Mohammed on National Review Online
KSM and his key al Qaeda cells around the world were planning significant new attacks against the United States, with never-before-employed terror tactics.
KSM was flushed out of the safe house in such a way that his computers and other evidence would be left behind.
So unaware was KSM that he was being stalked that even his cell phones and audiotapes, some reportedly with instructions from bin Laden, were found amid the mess in his uptown flat.
www.nationalreview.com /comment/comment-ijaz030403.asp   (1525 words)

  
 Is There More to the Capture of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed Than Meets the Eye?
Mohammed was dead, was captured, was there and got away, was there and was allowed to get away.” [Los Angeles Times, 12/22/02] Asia Times has claimed Mohammed was killed, and since his arrest continue to strongly suggest that he is already dead.
Mohammed’s arrest suggested that American counterterrorism agents were capable of significant direct action after months when the government’s security apparatus seemed caught in the throes of reorganization.” [New York Times, 3/2/03 (B)] “The arrest came as Americans had been expressing diminished confidence in the nation’s ability to defeat al-Qaeda....
Numerous recent reports say, “Mohammed was carrying the names and phone numbers of members of al-Qaeda sleeper cells in North America when he was apprehended, according to intelligence officials.” [AFP, 3/3/03, MSNBC, 3/3/03, Los Angeles Times, 3/3/03] It is even mentioned that a dozen of these sleepers in the US are already under surveillance.
www.cooperativeresearch.org /essay.jsp?article=essayksmcapture   (6449 words)

  
 Asia Times
According to an official of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Khalid was followed from somewhere in the eastern district of Karachi to the Defense Housing Authority (Phase II, commercial area), situated in the southern part of the city near Clifton beach.
A woman FBI official examined the bodies, and, as reported by an ISI official, suddenly exclaimed, "You have killed Khalid Shaikh Mohammad." The woman then instructed that a finger be cut off the body, which she took away, presumably for a DNA test.
Khalid's wife and child were taken away to an ISI safe house in the vicinity where they were interrogated by the FBI, and it is said that the woman identified one of the bodies as Khalid.
www.atimes.com /atimes/South_Asia/EC06Df04.html   (1452 words)

  
 The Mastermind - CBS News
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was apprehended in his pajamas just before dawn in a suburban home near the Pakistani capital of Islamabad.
According to Khalid, that committee actually was the arm of al Qaeda that decided to strike America inside America, and also chose the targets that were actually hit on Sept. 11.
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed said his problem was that he had too many volunteers.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2002/10/09/60II/main524947.shtml   (1943 words)

  
 CNN.com - 'Appropriate pressure' being put on al Qaeda leader - Mar. 3, 2003
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed is pictured shortly after his capture Saturday during a raid in Pakistan.
"All appropriate pressure" is being put on Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the man believed to be the key planner of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, to reveal plots for any future operations, a senior U.S. intelligence official said Sunday.
"Khalid Shaikh Mohammed is one of Usama Bin Laden 's most senior and significant lieutenants, a key Al Qaida planner and the mastermind of the September 11th attacks.
www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/asiapcf/south/03/02/pakistan.arrests/index.html   (1062 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Terror arrest triggers 'mad scramble'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the alleged Sept. 11 mastermind, is seen shortly after his capture during a raid in Pakistan on Saturday.
Mohammed, who went to college in the USA in the 1980s, is the highest-ranking leader of Osama bin Laden's terrorist network to be arrested.
Mohammed's arrest comes at a time when investigators had feared that the interrogations of other top terror leaders in U.S. hands were reaching a point of diminishing returns.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/2003-03-02-topstrip_x.htm   (502 words)

  
 National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
Mohammed managed to flee the Philippines and was subsequently indicted, even as he went on to become head of al Qaeda's military committee after Sudan, under U.S. pressure, expelled Usama bin Ladin to Afghanistan in 1996.
As for Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, US records also exist, as there really was an individual, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, born and raised in Kuwait.
After graduating high school, Mohammed attended college in the U.S. The key question-- whether the terrorist known as Khalid Shaikh Mohammed is the same person as the student--can be pursued, in a manner similar to the pursuit of Yousef's identity.
www.9-11commission.gov /hearings/hearing3/witness_mylroie.htm   (3053 words)

  
 IS KHALID SHAIKH MOHAMMED (Khalid Sheikh Mohammed) AN IRAQI AGENT?
Thus, the family of Khalid Mohammed and Abdul Basit, as well as Abdul Murad who grew up with Basit and was the son of a Kuwait pilot, were likely among the 600+ Kuwaitis that disappeared when Iraq took over the emirate in 1990.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, is a Pakistani Baluch.
Mohammed, Yousef and Murad, supposedly born and raised in Kuwait, are part of a tight circle.
www.spiritoftruth.org /ksm.htm   (2659 words)

  
 Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed arrested in Pakistan
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks in the United States, was arrested Saturday in Pakistan, a senior Pakistan government source told The Associated Press.
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed is wanted for his alleged involvement in a conspiracy plot, based in Manila, The Philippines, to bomb commercial United States airliners flying routes to the United States from Southeast Asia in January of 1995.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is the head of al-Qaeda's Martyrdom Battalion (the suicide bombing department) and masterminded both Oplan Bojinka in 1994 with Ramzi Yousef.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/854639/posts   (1317 words)

  
 CNN.com - Suspected 9/11 mastermind graduated from U.S. university - Dec. 19, 2002
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed graduated from North Carolina A&T in 1986.
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed graduated in 1986, one of about 30 Muslim students that year.
Mohammed is believed to be at large in Pakistan.
edition.cnn.com /2002/US/South/12/19/al.qaeda.aggie   (740 words)

  
 Perplexing trail to key al Qaeda suspect / He continued plotting attacks, officials say
Mohammed, 37, is perhaps the most senior al Qaeda member after bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri.
Mohammed was quickly handed over to the Americans for questioning at an undisclosed foreign location.
Mohammed's capture by CIA and Pakistani officers ended one of the most intense manhunts since Sept. 11, delivering the man believed to have the most detailed knowledge of the plot for those attacks and others during the last 18 months.
sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/03/03/MN206764.DTL   (1326 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | South Asia | Profile: Al-Qaeda 'kingpin'
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was one of the FBI's most wanted suspects after the 11 September 2001 attacks on the United States.
Sheikh Mohammed was born in Kuwait in either 1964 or 1965, but his family is from Baluchistan, a Pakistani province bordering Afghanistan.
Sheikh Mohammed is the uncle of Ramzi Yousef, who was convicted in 1997 of bombing the World Trade Center four years earlier.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/south_asia/2811855.stm   (643 words)

  
 Terrorism's Missing Link Khalid Shaikh Mohammed
Mohammed, al-Qaeda's chief military planner, was one of the principal architects of the 9/11 attacks.
Fluent in Arabic, English and Urdu, Mohammed is known to use 60 aliases and as many passports.
Evidence elicited from the family led police and the fbi to hunt for Mohammed in the second apartment, where the next day they arrested Binalshibh, a senior planner for the 9/11 attacks, and shot dead two fellow terrorists.
www.apfn.org /apfn/Khalid_link.htm   (718 words)

  
 ERRI Terrorist Profile: KHALID SHAIKH MOHAMMED
Mohammed is known to wear either a full beard or a trimmed beard, or he may be clean shaven.
Ramzi Binalshibh, suspected of coordinating the October 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, was arrested in the raid.
Jabarah was dispatched by Mohammed to Singapore on September 10, 2001, to activate an Al-Qaeda cell there and assist with a planned bombing campaign against American and Israeli targets in Malaysia.
www.emergency.com /2003/Khalid_Shaikh_Mohammedprofile.htm   (597 words)

  
 CNN.com - Officials: Alleged al Qaeda paymaster in custody - Mar. 4, 2003
U.S. hunts al Qaeda operatives in U.S. Khalid Shaikh Mohammed is pictured shortly after his capture Saturday during a raid in Pakistan.
Mustapha Ahmed al-Hawsawi, a man who officials say sent cash to lead 9/11 hijacker Mohammed Atta through bank accounts in Dubai and the United Arab Emirates, was captured along with a Pakistani man said to be of little importance during the raid that netted Mohammed, al Qaeda's operations chief.
Mohammed also has been linked to the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000; Richard Reid's foiled attempt to blow up an airliner with a shoe bomb in 2001; last April's bombings at the El Ghriba synagogue in Djerba, Tunisia; and the Bali bombings in October.
www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/asiapcf/south/03/03/pakistan.arrests   (619 words)

  
 CBC News: U.S. hails arrest of accused 9/11 schemer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, on the FBI's most wanted list since the fall of 2001, was picked up during a raid on a house in Rawalpindi, a city near Islamabad, officials said.
Mohammed, 37, was one of Osama bin Laden's "most senior and significant lieutenants, a key al-Qaeda planner, and the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks," according to Fleischer.
Mohammed, born in Kuwait, is a Pakistani national who lived near the border with Afghanistan.
cbc.ca /stories/2003/03/01/pakistan030301   (1137 words)

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