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Mar 1, 2003, 03:07 PM
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/south/03/01/pakistan.arrests/index.html (http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/south/03/01/pakistan.arrests/index.html)
Top al Qaeda operative caught in Pakistan
Saturday, March 1, 2003 Posted: 2:58 PM EST (1958 GMT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- The man linked by authorities to several al Qaeda terrorist attack in the last 10 years -- including the September 11, 2001 attacks -- was among three suspected al Qaeda operatives arrested Saturday in Pakistan, coalition intelligence forces confirmed to CNN.
Pakistani intelligence sources told CNN that they had been closing in on Khalid Shaikh Mohammed for several days, before the Pakistani security forces and FBI agents arrested him in a raid on a house in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, about 9 miles (15 km) from Islamabad.
Mohammed, a Kuwaiti national, was indicted in 1996 in the Southern District of New York for his alleged involvement in a Philippines-based plot to blow up 12 U.S.-bound commercial airliners in one day, according to the FBI. That indictment landed him on the FBI's list of 22 Most Wanted Terrorists, issued in October 2001.
Investigators and other sources have also linked Mohammed to the bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998.
Sources told CNN last year that Mohammed was one of three people who knew the details of the September 11 attacks and was with bin Laden when the al Qaeda leader was informed of the attacks' success.
Last April, German investigators linked Mohammed to the truck bombing of a synagogue in Tunisia. They said that three hours before the deadly bombing, the suspected suicide bomber telephoned Mohammed.
Authorities had hoped to find Mohammed during a raid in Pakistan last September 11, when another key al Qaeda suspect, Ramzi Binalshibh, was arrested.
One U.S. official has called Mohammed the Forrest Gump of al Qaeda because of all the attacks to which he's connected. Gump was a movie character who found himself at the center of many key moments in modern U.S. history.
Mohammed graduated in 1986 from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro, with a degree in mechanical engineering.
Oh goody!
Top al Qaeda operative caught in Pakistan
Saturday, March 1, 2003 Posted: 2:58 PM EST (1958 GMT)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- The man linked by authorities to several al Qaeda terrorist attack in the last 10 years -- including the September 11, 2001 attacks -- was among three suspected al Qaeda operatives arrested Saturday in Pakistan, coalition intelligence forces confirmed to CNN.
Pakistani intelligence sources told CNN that they had been closing in on Khalid Shaikh Mohammed for several days, before the Pakistani security forces and FBI agents arrested him in a raid on a house in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, about 9 miles (15 km) from Islamabad.
Mohammed, a Kuwaiti national, was indicted in 1996 in the Southern District of New York for his alleged involvement in a Philippines-based plot to blow up 12 U.S.-bound commercial airliners in one day, according to the FBI. That indictment landed him on the FBI's list of 22 Most Wanted Terrorists, issued in October 2001.
Investigators and other sources have also linked Mohammed to the bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998.
Sources told CNN last year that Mohammed was one of three people who knew the details of the September 11 attacks and was with bin Laden when the al Qaeda leader was informed of the attacks' success.
Last April, German investigators linked Mohammed to the truck bombing of a synagogue in Tunisia. They said that three hours before the deadly bombing, the suspected suicide bomber telephoned Mohammed.
Authorities had hoped to find Mohammed during a raid in Pakistan last September 11, when another key al Qaeda suspect, Ramzi Binalshibh, was arrested.
One U.S. official has called Mohammed the Forrest Gump of al Qaeda because of all the attacks to which he's connected. Gump was a movie character who found himself at the center of many key moments in modern U.S. history.
Mohammed graduated in 1986 from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro, with a degree in mechanical engineering.
Oh goody!
