(1965-04-14) 14 April 1965 (age 59)[1] Balochistan, Pakistan or Kuwait
Arrested
1 March 2003 Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Detained at
Guantanamo Bay detention camp
ISN
10024
Charge(s)
First-degree murder (2,977 counts)
Attacking civilians
Attacking civilian objects
Intentionally causing serious bodily injury
Murder in violation of the law of war
Destruction of property in violation of the law of war
Hijacking or hazarding a vessel or aircraft
Terrorism
Providing material support for terrorism
Status
Detained
Children
8
Relatives
Zahid 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]
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^[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
^ abChris McGreal, "Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: former military prosecutor denounces trial" Archived February 21, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, The Guardian, May 4, 2012
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