Word: khalid
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...security forces; in Gujarat, Pakistan. One of America's 22 most-wanted terrorists, the Tanzania-born Ghailani (whose aliases include Ahmed the Tanzanian and Foopie) evaded capture for almost six years and is believed to be the most senior al-Qaeda official caught in Pakistan since the arrest of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, alleged mastermind of the September 11 attacks, last year...
...Osama bin Laden is portrayed as a micromanager who wanted to hit the White House and personally chose all of the "muscle" hijackers. There are telling details about the lives and passions of the hijackers. For example, the 9/11 scheme nearly foundered several times over the terrorists' personal tribulations. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the plot's mastermind, became enraged when one hijacker-in-waiting flew home to Yemen after the birth of a child. Mohammed wanted him dropped from the operation, but bin Laden refused. When the wayward Nawaq Alhazmi grew lonely waiting for orders in San Diego, Mohammed allowed...
...When Khalid Sheikh Mohammed first floated the plan to Osama bin Laden in 1996, it proposed the hijacking of 10, not four, planes, on both the East and West coasts. In addition to the Twin Towers, the Pentagon and the Capitol or White House, possible targets included CIA and FBI headquarters, unidentified nuclear-power plants and the tallest buildings in California and Washington State. Mohammed hoped to pilot the 10th plane himself and land it after killing all the adult male passengers. He then planned to make a fiery, anti-American speech on the tarmac and release all the women...
...American, Apache-helicopter specialist Paul M. Johnson, hostage. Riyadh now resembles a fortress, with government buildings, hotels and expat compounds protected by heavily armed Saudi forces and concrete barricades. Travellers endure long queues at police checkpoints. "I get nervous when I see a group of Western-looking foreigners," says Khalid Yousef, a 22-year-old university student in Jidda. "You don't want to get caught in the cross-fire." Nowhere is anxiety running higher than in the fortified palaces that house the country's royal rulers. Though the al-Saud dynasty has controlled the country for 72 years...
...couple of hundred Fallujans who fled the fighting in their town are now living in tents pitched on a dusty lot in a residential Baghdad neighborhood. When I visited Umm Khalid, a sad-looking woman there, she told me that I shouldn't view her as poor. "I am well-educated. I drive my own car," she said, waving her hand around her neatly arranged, well-swept tent as if to compare it with those of her messier neighbors. The proud woman's son Fahad Salaam, 15, was playing in the front yard of the family home in Fallujah...