Word: shaikh
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...some ways, he was al-Qaeda's 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...
...Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl a year ago in Karachi. But the mystery of who wielded the knife that beheaded Pearl is still unsolved. Now Pakistani police sources tell TIME that at least one witness says Pearl's throat was slit by a top al-Qaeda terrorist, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. A Kuwaiti of Pakistani descent, Mohammed is believed by U.S. authorities to have been a key organizer of the Sept. 11 hijackings...
...killers are still at large. While prosecutors say Saeed was the mastermind who grabbed Pearl, Karim denies that Saeed was in Karachi during the kidnapping. Karim, a former mujadedin fighter in Afghanistan, has told police that the man who actually drew the knife across Pearl's throat was Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, a top al-Qaeda terrorist. Mohammed, whom U.S. investigators say was a chief architect of the 9/11 attacks, is now believed to be hiding in Pakistan...
Ayman al-Zawahiri ASSUMED ALIVE --Initially reported killed last year, bin Laden's right-hand man apparently survived, as did Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and Mustafa Ahmed, operations and finance heads, respectively...
...Pakistan, is an uncle of Yousef, though in the Arab world uncle can be a flexible term. Roland Jacquard, a French expert on Islamic terrorism, says Mohammed first came to the attention of American investigators as they searched for Yousef after the 1993 bombing. A man named Khaled al-Shaikh Mohammad attended Chowan College in North Carolina in 1984, but the FBI isn't certain he is the man they want. In 1995 Mohammed was in Manila, where Yousef planned the so-called Bojinka (Serbo-Croat for explosion) plot to blow up airliners as they flew from Asia...