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...arrest, he thinks, has "cut al-Qaeda's operational ability by 50% at least in the next one to two years." Gunaratna's judgment is based on Mohammed's experience and his ruthlessness. Mohammed has been involved in international terrorism at least since 1995, when he and his nephew Ramzi Yousef--who organized the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center--planned to blow up a dozen airliners over the Pacific. Mohammed, says Gunaratna, "always thought big. His capacity to conceptualize, plan and implement low-cost, high-impact operations has been constantly underestimated by the international security and intelligence community...
...Agent 007: suave, well educated, a trilingual globe-trotter who mixed easily in other cultures, who engaged women and intrigue with savoir faire and deadly expertise. Except that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed isn't fiction. He's all too real. Consider his resume of terror. He presumably helped kinsman Ramzi Yousef bomb the World Trade Center in 1993. He hatched plots, never carried out, to bring down U.S. airliners over the Pacific and to assassinate President Clinton and the Pope. He may well have masterminded--officials aren't sure yet--the deadly assault on the U.S.S. Cole off Yemen...
...perhaps the world's most dangerous terrorist operative--until Pakistani agents nabbed him at 2:30 a.m. Saturday at a house in Rawalpindi owned by a retired 75-year-old microbiologist. Unlike the wild shoot-out in Pakistan that preceded the capture in September of another al-Qaeda honcho, Ramzi Binalshibh, Mohammed's capture went quietly. Inside the rambling, two-story house, in a neighborhood inhabited by retired army generals, Pakistani Interior Ministry officials say they found Mohammed and another suspected al-Qaeda operative of Middle Eastern origin. The two were seized along with the scientist's son, an unemployed...
...some of the Islamic fighters supported by the CIA in Afghanistan brought their jihad to America. Ramzi Yousef, who planned the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993, was trained in Afghanistan. The war left Afghanistan desolated; an estimated 1 million people died in the conflict. And what happened afterward? The warring factions fought one another, the Taliban took over, and guess whom they allowed in to train terrorists on their soil...
...Qaeda's first venture in SE Asia was a 1995 plot to simultaneously detonatbombs on 11 U.S. jetliners over the Pacific. The operation was thwarted, and several of the participants arrested, including Ramzi Yousef, mastermind of the February 1993 attack on the World Trade Center. At the time, both Western and Asian security agencies did not understand that the Ramzi Yousef cell was part of a wider, regional network; they believed he had gone to the Philippines for this one operation. As a result, no serious attempt was made to unravel the front companies and detect the militants buttressing...