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In the theatre of the absurd into which America's hunt for Al Qaeda so often descends, the "arrest" - the quotation marks are all too necessary - of Khaled Shaikh Mohammed is nearer the Gilbert and Sullivan end of the repertory. First, Mohammed was arrested in a joint raid by the CIA and Pakistani agents near Islamabad and spirited out of the country to an "undisclosed location." "The man who masterminded the September 11th attacks," was how the United States billed this latest "victory" in the "war against terror" (again, quotation marks are obligatory). Then the Pakistanis announced that he...

Gloves off, the screws go on 9/11 suspect March 6 2003 By Toby Harnden Washington Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the captured al-Qaeda chief who allegedly helped to mastermind the September 11 attacks, probably does not know what country he is in or even what day it is. United States officials have said with some satisfaction that he is being subjected to "all appropriate pressure" while his CIA interrogators employ the "full range of permissible techniques" to get him to talk. President George Bush's spokesman, Ari Fleischer, said Mohammed's treatment would be "humane", but CIA agents said he was being held outside...

A SAUDI ARABIAN national who is accused of bankrolling the September 11 hijackers was among those captured with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in last weekend’s pre-dawn raid in Rawalpindi, a senior Pakistani official said yesterday. Pakistani officials have called the joint arrest a significant blow against al-Qaeda’s efforts to regroup in Pakistan. Mohammed’s capture is the biggest coup in the United States-led War on Terror. As No 3 in the al-Qaeda leadership, he is subordinate only to Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, the Egyptian-born physician, who is also at large. Mustafa Ahmed Hawsawi, who initially identified himself as a Somali,...

Letters of Ben Laden found on Sheik Mohammed Handwritten letters of Oussama Ben Laden found on the high-person in charge for Al-Qaïda Khaled Sheik Mohammed, stopped Saturday in Pakistan, would tend to prove that the head of the terrorist network is alive and hides "in the area", affirmed Wednesday a person in charge for safety pakistanaise."Il has there élements like letters and other things which were in possession of Khaled Sheik Mohammed which strongly suggests that Ben Laden is alive and could hide in the area ", it declared with the AFP.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the captured al-Qa'eda chief who allegedly helped to mastermind the September 11 attacks, probably does not know what country he is in or even what day it is. American officials have said with some satisfaction that he is being subjected to "all appropriate pressure" while his CIA interrogators employ the "full range of permissible techniques" to get him to talk. While Ari Fleischer, President George W Bush's spokesman, said his treatment would be "humane", CIA agents said he was being held outside America so that he would not be subject to constitutional protections. With potentially thousands of...

The arrested al-Qa'eda leader blamed for organising the September 11 attacks was betrayed by Mohammed Abdel-Rahman, the son of the man who ordered the first bombing of the World Trade Centre, it emerged yesterday. Abdel-Rahman, 30, an Egyptian known to his followers as "the Lion of God", was arrested in Pakistan last month. His capture, a serious setback for al-Qa'eda, was kept secret in the hope that more would follow. Pakistani officials said that, under duress, he had divulged information about the head of al-Qa'eda's military committee, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, with whom he had been hiding. With intercepted mobile telephone...

<p>HERE WE COME: U.S. B-52 bombers arrive at Royal Air Force base Fairford in western England.</p> <p>March 4, 2003 -- Intelligence agents struck gold with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's arrest - uncovering fresh leads on Osama bin Laden, a list of 200 al Qaeda operatives in the United States and elsewhere, and previously unknown terror plots, officials said yesterday. Solid evidence that Mohammed has been in "recent contact" with bin Laden was discovered during Friday's raid on Mohammed's hideout in Rawalpindi Pakistan, giving frustrated U.S. authorities their first scent of the al Qaeda leader in more than 14 months, sources said.</p>

It's not a question of whether we should kill him, it's whether we should torture him first. I'm talking about Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. The "mastermind" of Al Qaeda, the guy who came up with September 11. The guy who helped bomb the World Trade Center in 1993. And who wanted to blow up 11 U.S. jetliners and crash another one into the CIA headquarters. The guy who blew up our embassies in Africa and who attacked the USS Cole and who killed Daniel Pearl and blew up that Tunisian synagogue. That guy. We all know how his story is going...

BAGRAM, Afghanistan (AP) - Mystery surrounds the whereabouts of al-Qaida mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who was captured in Pakistan over the weekend in a joint raid by CIA agents and Pakistani police. Some say Mohammed was brought here to Bagram after his capture Saturday, joining an unknown number of al-Qaida and Taliban suspects at a secretive holding facility at America's main military base in Afghanistan. Intelligence sources in Pakistan say he was flown from the Pakistani Air Base at Chaklala, outside the federal capital to Bagram Air Base. The U.S. is refusing to say where Mohammed has been taken....

The capture of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed is a great blow to al Qaeda. We were able to capture the murdering swine with the help of the people of Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Yes, they did it for the $41 million reward money, nevertheless, it took courage. Turning in this terrorist was probably like a neighborhood in South Central Los Angeles turning in a gang member. There are other gang members who may kill you. So let us say thanks to the people of Rawalpindi through the Pakastani embassy in Washington D.C. ---- WEBSITE 2315 MASSACHUSETTS AVE. N.W. WASHINGTON D.C. 20008 Email: parepwashington@erols.com...

ACCUSED September 11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was carrying the names and phone numbers of members of al-Qaeda sleeper cells in North America when he was arrested, intelligence officials have said. His detention in Pakistan could disrupt acts of terror in the planning stages, authorities in Washington said. Vincent Cannistraro, a former counter-terrorism chief for the CIA, said Mohammed would likely be interrogated "with some urgency" about al-Qaeda attacks that might be imminent. Western intelligence officials have said Mohammed actively recruited terrorists for a new wave of attacks against Americans at home and abroad. He is also alleged to have...

Not for commercial use. Solely to be used for the educational purposes of research and open discussion. Then There Were Two: Al-Qaeda Planner Caught Christopher Kremmer Sydney Morning Herald News And Features; Pg. 1 March 3, 2003 Monday In a country of 140 million, al-Qaeda's man of a thousand faces had nowhere left to hide. The joint United States-Pakistani swoop on the hideout of the terrorist group's operational chief, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, just a short drive from the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, is the most serious blow so far to the organisation. The capture of the man described by some analysts...

Not for commercial use. Solely to be used for the educational purposes of research and open discussion. Dedicated hater of the West with a taste for high living Al-Qaeda's 'chief executive' is the son of a preacher who grew up harbouring a deep resentment that found its murderous expression on September 11, reports Jenny Booth. His capture deals a blow to Osama bin Laden's capacity for attack By JENNY BOOTH SUNDAY TELEGRAPH(LONDON) Pg. 17 March 02, 2003, Sunday KHALID SHEIKH MOHAMMED, the terrorist mastermind arrested in Pakistan yesterday, is believed to have been involved in planning every significant al-Qaeda attack...

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the senior al-Qa'eda terrorist arrested in Pakistan, was in American custody yesterday as intelligence officials raced against time to discover what he knows.Within hours of his capture, the CIA flew him from Pakistan to an undisclosed third country, where he will not be entitled to the human rights guarantees of the American constitution.Of course, assuming he is entitled to such right, means that we believe he is actually human. Unlikely. - Ivan Mohammed, one of the network's top five leaders and its principal military and operational commander, is likely to know where Osama bin Laden is, as...

Hunt for captured al-Qaida fugitive started with narrow escape in southwestern Pakistan RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) - The stunning arrest of Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed by Pakistani intelligence and CIA agents began with a near miss last month in a dusty border town and became a feverish chase fueled by communications intercepts and suspects' interrogations, security officials said Sunday. Mohammed, an unidentified man of Middle Eastern origin and Pakistani Ahmed Abdul Qadus were arrested early Saturday in Rawalpindi, a bustling city adjacent to the capital. Mohammed and the unidentified man were handed over to U.S. authorities and spirited...

RAWALPINDI, March 1: The government claimed on Saturday to have arrested four Al Qaeda "terrorists" from here, three of them identified as foreigners. Senior government officials said the government had obtained solid proof of the involvement of the arrested persons in activities related to Al Qaeda. The arrests, it has been learnt, were made in two separate raids in the cantonment area. Though the government claimed the arrests were made by the police, a source, however, said the police had nothing to do with the arrests which were made by the FBI in collaboration with national intelligence agencies. But...

OTTAWA - A Canadian expert on terrorist networks says the arrest of a top al-Qaeda member in Pakistan suggests the U.S. may be closer to cornering Osama bin Laden. On Saturday, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was picked up during an early-morning raid on a house in Pakistan. He's accused of coming up with the idea of turning passenger planes into missiles for an attack against the United States on Sept. 11, 2001. The arrest is significant for several reasons, according to Martin Rudner, director of the Canadian Centre of Intelligence and Security Studies (CCISS) and a professor at Carleton University...

RAWALPINDI -- Three suspected terrorists including two foreigners were arrested from Rawalpindi in the wee hours of Saturday in two operations jointly launched by American FBI and local sensitive agencies, and it was suspected that one of the arrested foreigners was Khalid Sheikh Muhammad an operational chief of al-Qaeda, confirmed the sources in the Federal government. In the first operation launched at a house in Westridge-2, Nisar Road at 2.30am these agencies rounded up one Ahmad Qadoos, followed by a thorough search of the house and taking away of a tape-recorder, few cassettes, a computer set and few other...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush celebrated a major success in the fight against terrorism Saturday with the arrest of the al-Qaida operative suspected of planning the Sept. 11 attacks. "That's fantastic!" the president said early Saturday when his national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, delivered the news of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed's capture in Pakistan. Mohammed was arrested early Saturday in a raid conducted jointly by American and Pakistani officials. It was unclear whether Mohammed had been taken into U.S. custody or where he was being held. It was midnight Friday when CIA Director George Tenet first called Rice, who was...