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Someone named Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was born in Kuwait to Pakistani parents on April 19, 1965

Creepy. 30 years later to the DAY, OKC bombing took place.

That aside, I wonder what the relevance of the identities stolen from Kuwait are? Did they select people at random to "morph" into?

That aside, I wonder what the relevance of the identities stolen from Kuwait are? Did they select people at random to "morph" into?

Good question. If Mylroie's theory is correct, I have a few suggestions:

If KSM and/or Yousef are really Baluchs cultivated by the Iraqi intelligence service, it might be good cover to use the identities of ethnic Baluchs.
The real Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Abdul Basit were both educated in the West (Saddam's biggest Western enemies, the US and the UK, respectively), so their prior visa history might have been seen as useful in gaining access on future terrorist operations. I see no evidence that this was exploited -- Yousef subsequently entered the US on an Iraqi passport -- but it still could have been seen as a nice "feature" at the time of the appropriation.
Using Kuwaitis (or US Gulf War veterans) for revenge attacks on the United States might appeal to Saddam as a form of "poetic justice."
These two individuals might have born some physical resemblance to the men who would take over their identities. In the case of Basit, it seems like the only certain picture we have of him is from when he was fourteen years old (it's reproduced in Study of Revenge): I would say that there are points of similarity in his features with Ramzi Yousef, as well as differences. Supposedly, no pictures are available from KSM's four year stay in America.
It may be that the real KSM and the real Abdul Basit were quite religious and anti-Iraqi, as some of the stories suggest, and that they ran afoul of Kuwait's occupiers at some point because of it.

I'm not completely sold on Mylroie's theory, yet, BTW, although the eerie silence from North Carolina and Hoagland's article in the Washington Post, plus the suspicious near-blackout on KSM in the media until a few weeks ago, support it. Another possibility, given that the real family were ethnic Baluchs, is that maybe they got hooked up with the Iraqis during the occupation through some other family connection, and perhaps these terrorists really are the same as the students in North Carolina and Wales. I sure would like to know the answer.

That aside, I wonder what the relevance of the identities stolen from Kuwait are? Did they select people at random to "morph" into?

I'd be curious if there were any MORE, and if any of those folks are here in the US for one reason or another. I wonder if there is any way to check the Kuwaiti public records looking for suspicious entries and compare the names to folks over here on Student visas, etc?