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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
Mohammed in 2003 after his capture
Born (1965-04-14) 14 April 1965 (age 59)[1]
Balochistan, Pakistan or Kuwait
Arrested1 March 2003
Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Detained at Guantanamo Bay detention camp
ISN10024
Charge(s)
StatusDetained
Children8
RelativesZahid Al-Sheikh (brother), Ramzi Yousef and Ammar al-Baluchi (nephews)

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. He was named as "the principal architect of the 9/11 attacks" in the 2004 9/11 Commission Report.[4]

Mohammed was a member of Osama bin Laden's Pan-Islamist terrorist organization al-Qaeda, leading al-Qaeda's propaganda operations from around 1999 until late 2001. Mohammed was captured on 1 March 2003, in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi by a combined operation of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). Immediately after his capture, Mohammad was extraordinarily rendered to secret CIA prison sites in Afghanistan, then Poland, where he was interrogated and tortured by U.S. operatives.[5] By December 2006, he had been transferred to military custody at Guantanamo Bay detention camp.

In March 2007, after being subjected to torture during interrogations, Mohammed confessed to masterminding the 11 September attacks; the Richard Reid shoe bombing attempt to blow up an airliner; the 2002 Bali bombings in Indonesia; the 1993 World Trade Center bombing; the murder of Daniel Pearl and various foiled attacks as well as numerous other crimes.[6][7][8] He was charged in February 2008 with war crimes and murder by a U.S. military commission at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, which could carry the death penalty if convicted. In 2012, a former military prosecutor criticized the proceedings as insupportable due to confessions gained under torture.[7] A 2008 decision by the United States Supreme Court had also drawn into question the legality of the methods used to gain such admissions and the admissibility of such admissions as evidence in a criminal proceeding.[9]

On 30 August 2019, a military judge set a trial date of 11 January 2021, for Mohammed's death penalty trial.[10] His trial was further postponed on 18 December 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[11] Mohammed's trial restarted on 7 September 2021.[12] However, as of 2023 his trial has been postponed again, further into 2023, with a possible plea deal that would take the death penalty off the table.[13]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference NYTimesGuantanamoDocketISN10024 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Detainee Biographies" (PDF). Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 November 2009.
  3. ^ "U.S. v. Khalid Shaikh Mohammed military tribunal charges" (PDF). FindLaw. Retrieved 15 July 2008.
  4. ^ "The Guantánamo Docket: Khalid Shaikh Mohammed". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 16 July 2014. Retrieved 10 September 2010.
  5. ^ Filkins, Dexter (31 December 2014). "Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the C.I.A." The New Yorker. Archived from the original on 10 December 2017. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
  6. ^ [1]Ali Soufan and Daniel Freedman, The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against al-Qaeda Archived May 21, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, 2011
  7. ^ a b Chris McGreal, "Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: former military prosecutor denounces trial" Archived February 21, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, The Guardian, May 4, 2012
  8. ^ "Truth and torture | Comment is free". Theguardian.co.uk. 20 May 2014. Archived from the original on 14 July 2015. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
  9. ^ Dworkin, Ronald (14 August 2008). "Why It Was a Great Victory". The New York Review of Books. Archived from the original on 22 February 2017. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
  10. ^ Rosenberg, Carol (30 August 2019). "Trial Date for Men Charged With Plotting Sept. 11 Attacks Is Set for 2021". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 30 August 2019. Retrieved 30 August 2019.
  11. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 January 2021. Retrieved 10 March 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  12. ^ "Trial of accused 9/11 mastermind restarts, days before 20th anniversary". The Straits Times. 7 September 2021. Archived from the original on 7 September 2021. Retrieved 7 September 2021.
  13. ^ "9/11 trial delayed again as Biden administration pushes for plea deal with terrorists". Washington Examiner. 9 January 2023. Retrieved 19 January 2023.

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