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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (sometimes also spelled Shaykh; [2] also known by at least 50 pseudonyms; [3] born 14 April 1965), often known by his initials KSM, is a Pakistani terrorist and the former Head of Propaganda for al-Qaeda. He is currently held by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp under terrorism -related charges.
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Sep 7, 2021 · Two decades after the 9/11 attacks and nine years after war crimes charges were filed, the pretrial wrangling in the case against accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other ...
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- Ken Dilanian
Sep 5, 2021 · Osama Bin Laden, at the time the leader of al-Qaeda, is the man most closely associated with the 9/11 attacks. But the reality was that Mohammed - or "KSM" as he became known - was the "principal ...
Sep 7, 2021 · Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is seen shortly after his capture during a raid in Pakistan, March 1, 2003. AP, FILE. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba -- Twenty years after 9/11, the trial of the alleged ...
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- John Parkinson,Shannon K. Crawford
May 5, 2012 · Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was captured in Pakistan in March 2003 and sent to the US detention centre in Cuba in 2006. He had been indicted in 1996 with plotting to blow up 11 or 12 American airliners ...
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Mar 7, 2024 · Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (born March 1, 1964, or April 14, 1965, Kuwait) Islamist militant who, as an operational planner for al-Qaeda, masterminded some of that organization’s highest-profile terrorist operations, most notably the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in 2001. Prior to his birth, Mohammed’s parents ...
Sep 5, 2021 · The former FBI agent who indicted Mohammed for a 1993 plot to bomb the World Trade Center recounts how he missed him in Qatar and later interrogated him in Guantanamo. Mohammed is accused of orchestrating the 9/11 attacks and faces trial after 20 years.
