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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...
...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 Pakistani man, Ahmed Afzal Qudoos. "We have finally apprehended Khalid Shaikh Mohammed," boasted Pakistani presidential spokesman Rashid Qureshi. "He is the kingpin of al-Qaeda." Sources tell TIME that agents had been led to his hideout through the earlier arrest of an Egyptian in Quetta who had been in contact with Mohammed. Neighbors, wary of the lone Arab who appeared...
...Most headlines suggest that the war on terror is going well. The capabilities of al-Qaeda have taken a serious hit with the capture of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. So, too, have the deadly intentions of Asian Islamic groups with al-Qaeda links. The MILF, which helped train foreign jihadis in the late 1990s, has been hammered by the Philippine military in the past few weeks. Foot soldiers, commanders and tacticians of Jemaah Islamiah (JI), the militant group behind the Bali blasts, have been thrown behind bars recently in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Singapore, and its alleged spiritual...
...better in Indonesia where the Bali investigation may have seriously dented the capabilities of JI. In April, Indonesia will start the first trial in the Bali case, seeking to convict Amrozi, 40, who allegedly transported the bomb materials from Java to the resort island. And the capture of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, JI's sponsor in al-Qaeda, should also lessen the risk of further attacks in Asia. But the most dangerous man in JI is still at large: Hambali, the group's operations chief...
...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...