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Al-Qaeda chief reveals full 9/11 plan By Christina Lamb 29Mar04 IT makes a chilling picture. The mastermind behind the September 11 attacks has told interrogators that he and his terrorist nephew leafed through almanacs of US skyscrapers when planning the operation. Sears Tower in Chicago and Library Tower in Los Angeles - which was "blown up" in the film Independence Day - were both potential targets, according to transcripts of interrogations of al-Qaeda operations chief Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. "We were looking for symbols of economic might," he told his captors. He recounted sitting looking at the books with Ramzi Yusuf,...

<p>LONDON — Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, al Qaeda's purported operations chief, has told U.S. interrogators that the group had been planning attacks on the Library Tower in Los Angeles and the Sears Tower in Chicago on the heels of the September 11, 2001, terror strikes.</p>

'I met Osama Bin Laden in Kabul. It was at this time we discussed the Heathrow operation' It makes a chilling picture. The mastermind behind the September 11 attacks has told interrogators that he and his terrorist nephew leafed through almanacs of American skyscrapers when planning the operation. Sears Tower in Chicago and Library Tower in Los Angeles — which was “blown up” in the film Independence Day — were both potential targets, according to transcripts of interrogations of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the Al-Qaeda operations chief. “We were looking for symbols of economic might,” he told his captors. He recounted...

ONDON, March 2 — The terrorism investigation code-named Mont Blanc began almost by accident in April 2002, when authorities intercepted a cellphone call that lasted less than a minute and involved not a single word of conversation. Investigators, suspicious that the call was a signal between terrorists, followed the trail first to one terror suspect, then to others, and eventually to terror cells on three continents. What tied them together was a computer chip smaller than a fingernail. But before the investigation wound down in recent weeks, its global net caught dozens of suspected Qaeda members and disrupted at least...

Bin Laden's Sept 11 plot role revealed By David Rennie(Filed: 22/09/2003) Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the September 11 attacks, has told American interrogators he originally aimed for a double wave of suicide attacks, involving up to 10 commercial airliners and targets on both US coasts. Details of what he has told his CIA captors were made public by the Associated Press news agency yesterday after an AP reporter was shown interview reports.They make clear Osama bin Laden's central role in the attacks. He scaled down plans to hijack five planes on each coast, and scrapped plans...

<p>Accused terrorist mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed has told investigators that al Qaeda chose so many Saudis to carry out the September 11 attacks partly because it was an easy place to get visas, a Saudi official said.</p> <p>Al Qaeda leaders "felt that the nationality that would not ring a bell when it came to security screening at that time would be Saudis," the Saudi official told reporters in Washington this week, on the condition that he not be identified.</p>

<p>March 31, 2003 -- Captured Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is singing like a canary, revealing a wide array of al Qaeda's evil secrets, it was reported yesterday.</p> <p>His candor in captivity and willingness to expose a myriad of al Qaeda plots has stunned his CIA interrogators, Newsweek said.</p>

For Immediate ReleaseOffice of the Press SecretaryMarch 8, 2003 Radio Address of the President to the Nation      Audio THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. This has been an important week on two fronts of our war against terror. First, American and Pakistani authorities captured the mastermind of the September the 11th attacks against our country, Khalid Sheik Mohammed. This is a landmark achievement in disrupting the al Qaeda network, and we believe it will help us prevent future acts of terror. We are currently working with over 90 countries and have dealt with over 3,000 terrorists, who have been detained, arrested, or...

Professor recalls now notorious A&T student 3-4-03 By JOHN NEWSOM, Staff Writer News & Record The last time N.C. A&T got so many calls from the national media, the university was unveiling a statue of the Greensboro Four, four students who refused to leave a whites-only lunch counter and launched the sit-in movement. But none of the reporters contacting A&T lately have wanted to discuss this civil rights milestone or A&T's most famous graduate, Jesse Jackson. Instead, they want to know about A&T graduate Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, a suspected terrorist with a $25 million bounty on his head who was...

March 3 — Suspected Sept. 11 planner Khalid Shaikh Mohammed is believed to command a global network of al Qaeda terrorists, but in the three days since his arrest he has refused to tell interrogators anything about planned attacks, instead reciting the Koran to himself, U.S. officials told ABCNEWS. Mohammed was questioned for a third day by U.S. and Pakistani agents today. Analysts said interrogators were seeking details of any planned al Qaeda attacks and leads on the whereabouts of the world's most-wanted man, Osama bin Laden. Though the arrest of Mohammed in Pakistan on Saturday has been described as...

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...

The capture of Khalid Sheik Mohammed could significantly impact Al Qaeda operations. WASHINGTON AND KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - Unlike Osama bin Laden, he's not a household name - at least not until now. But no individual's capture could have wider implications for America's war on terrorism than that of Khalid Sheik Mohammed. Apprehended in Pakistan this weekend and now facing interrogation in US custody overseas, Mohammed is considered to be Al Qaeda's foremost operational leader, with unrivaled knowledge of the organization's plans and personnel. The news of Mohammed's capture could help on several fronts, from the manhunt for bin Laden to...

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...

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 to an undisclosed location out of the country, a senior government official told...

WHEN Osama bin Laden thought that his terrorist hierarchy faced annihilation in Afghanistan, he had one of his top henchmen smuggled to safety to continue their mission. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed needed little encouragement to desert the caves of the Tora Bora Mountains for Pakistan, for he has shown little desire to embrace martyrdom. Comrades sent to assist him were disturbed at how such a zealous Muslim could regularly be in flamboyant mood, dispensing cash in lap-dancing clubs and expensive restaurants. He revelled in stunts, such as hiring a helicopter to fly past the office window of a girl he was...

<p>Khalid Shaikh Mohammed shortly after his capture during a raid in Pakistan on Saturday.</p>

If he sings like a bird under the hot lamp of interrogation, Al Qaeda's top operational leader, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, could reveal the minutest details that would help the US blow open his terrorist network, especially the so-called sleeper cells in the US and Europe. His capture in Pakistan on Saturday is the most successful victory in President Bush's war on terrorism since the US liberated Afghanistan soon after Sept. 11 and scattered Al Qaeda's leaders. Even if Mr. Mohammed doesn't talk, Al Qaeda has lost its main architect, one whose dark visions and effective command of lesser radicals led...

The sister of a Pakistani arrested in a swoop that authorities say also netted the suspected mastermind of the September 11 attacks has said he was the only man present at the time of the raid and had no ties to any extremist group. Pakistani authorities said on Saturday local time they had arrested three Al Qaeda suspects in an early morning raid on a house in the city of Rawalpindi near Islamabad. Those held included Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks, and 41-year-old Pakistani Ahmed Quddus, they said. An intelligence source said the...

March 2, 2003, 12:10AM 9/11 `mastermind' arrested Pakistan hands over key al-Qaida leader to U.S. By ERIK ECKHOLM New York Times Associated Press / FBI Khalid Shaikh Mohammed is shown in these undated FBI handout photos. Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks in the United States, was arrested in Pakistan, a senior Pakistan government source said. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, suspected of planning the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington and one of the FBI's most wanted terrorists, was detained by Pakistani authorities on Saturday morning and is now in U.S....

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives intelligence committee said on Sunday the apprehension of a top al Qaeda leader in Pakistan will result in "other very successful activities soon." Rep. Porter Goss, a Florida Republican who is chairman of the Select House Intelligence Committee, said the arrest of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, a suspected mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on America, would give U.S. law enforcement agents "more focus and more clarity on where to go and what to look at." "This is a very huge event. This is the equivalent of the liberation...