If Khalid is so smart, why was he caught while Osama has not been?
How do you catch a corpse?
Good point. And those two 9/11 scum who he disapproved of because they "barely knew how to function in US society" weren't caught either, while KSM's star pupil, Jose Padilla, stepped off a plane in the US right into the arms of the Feds.
He's the operational guy which forces him to be outside the cave once in a while. It's tough to be in a cave and still run things.