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...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...
...more than six years, U.S. Officials have wanted to nab Khalid Shaikh Mohammed for his involvement in a foiled plot to bomb airliners as they crossed the Pacific. Now they want to talk to him about a plan that worked. Mohammed, 37, who was born in Kuwait, is believed to have been a key player in the Sept. 11 attacks. "He was involved in every aspect--concocting the scheme, training, financing," says a U.S. official. Mohammed has been fingered by Abu Zubaydah, a top lieutenant of Osama bin Laden now in U.S. custody at a secret location, and by some...
...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...
...Diego two of the hijackers lived on a shabby street with houses built between the 1920s and '50s. Nawaq Alhamzi and Khalid Al-Midhar, both of Flight 77, which crashed into the Pentagon, stayed with a retired language teacher, Abdussattar Shaikh. The FBI has questioned Shaikh and searched his house. "There was always a series of cars driving up to the house late at night," says neighbor Dave Eckler, 52, a longtime resident of the area. "Sometimes they were nice cars. Sometimes they had darkened windows. They'd stay about 10 minutes." But the worst Eckler thought was that they...