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March 1, 2003, 8:03PM Terror suspect's capture may halt attacks in future By JOHN J. LUMPKIN Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Khalid Shaikh Mohammed turned Osama bin Laden's wish to kill Americans into a reality like no one else in al-Qaida, and his arrest could lead to information about terror attacks still in the planning stages, U.S. counterterrorism officials say. Mohammed, one of the most hunted men in the world and the suspected mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, was captured early Saturday in Pakistan in a raid conducted jointly by Pakistani authorities and American intelligence operatives. "This is major. This...

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) Pakistan's interior minister denied reports on Sunday that suspected September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed had been handed over to the United States and said he was still in Pakistan. President Pervez Musharraf's spokesman Rashid Qureshi also said Mohammed was in Pakistan and was being jointly interrogated by Pakistani and U.S. agents. Earlier, a government official who did not want to be identified said Khalid had been handed over to U.S. custody shortly after his arrest, along with two other al Qaeda suspects, in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi on Saturday. Interior Minister Faisal Saleh Hayat denied this:...

Khalid Sheik Mohammed keeps the terrorist business in the family. Before his arrest in Pakistan on Saturday, he was one of the last still in business. Mohammed's nephew was convicted as the chief organizer of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. His older brother is regarded as a key member of Al Qaida. Yet another brother was killed during a bomb blast in Pakistan connected to Al Qaida. The man widely regarded as mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, was captured Saturday in a raid in Pakistan involving U.S. agents, officials told Associated Press. Mohammed had a price on his...

2003-03-02) -- U.S. Sen. Tom Daschle, D-SD, today demanded the release of al Qaeda's top planner, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who was captured yesterday in Pakistan. Sen. Daschle said if Mr. Mohammed were not released, the United States would have to attack Iraq. "We Democrats have been saying that attacking Iraq is a bad idea since it distracts from the war on terror," said the Senator. "But if we continue to capture al Qaeda members, then Americans will think that we can do both at the same time. We must release this man immediately." Sen. Daschle went on to talk about...

<p>Khalid Shaikh Mohammed is shown in these undated FBI handout photos.</p> <p>Khalid Shaikh Mohammed is one of Osama bin Laden's most trusted associates and his name is linked to most of al Qaeda's recent operations.</p> <p>Mohammed is said to have been involved in planning al Qaeda 'spectaculars' from Yemen to Bali to New York.</p>

Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the September 11 terrorist attacks and one of Osama bin Laden's most senior lieutenants, was under interrogation by US FBI agents at an unknown location in Pakistan. Pakistani officials said Mohammed was handed over to the US following his seizure in a pre-dawn raid in Rawalpindi Saturday and was due to be flown early Sunday to the US-controlled air base at Bagram in Afghanistan. Interior Minister Faisal Saleh Hayat insisted that Mohammed was still in Pakistan Sunday and was being interrogated by Pakistani intelligence agents. "He's still with us. We are interrogating him....

LAMABAD, Pakistan - U.S. authorities have taken the suspected mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks out of Pakistan to an undisclosed location after capturing him in a joint raid by CIA (news - web sites) and Pakistani agents, a senior government official said Sunday. The arrest Saturday of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, a senior operative in Osama bin Laden (news - web sites)'s al-Qaida network, and two other men outside the Pakistani capital of Islamabad likely will hurt the terrorist organization's ability to strike and could provide the United States with new clues in the hunt for bin Laden. "It's hard...

Khalid Sheik Mohammed, captured in Pakistan yesterday, is the self-described mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and a central planner in al Qaeda attacks on U.S. interests -- from the failed 1995 plot to blow up 11 U.S. airliners over the Pacific to the round of threats that put the nation on extreme high alert in recent weeks. For al Qaeda networks throughout the Middle East, South Asia and Europe, he has been a central conduit for money, personnel and plans. ...The object of a U.S manhunt for years, Mohammed narrowly escaped captured in 1996. At that time, he...

<p>March 2, 2003 -- Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's arrest in Pakistan leaves 21 men on the FBI's "most wanted terrorist" list - including the ever-elusive Osama bin Laden.</p> <p>The terrorists, who are nationals of numerous Middle Eastern countries, are believed to be spread out and hiding in countries including Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Egypt and Kenya.</p>

WASHINGTON, Mar 2 (Reuters) A top-secret phone call at midnight from CIA Director George Tenet brought President George W. Bush's national security adviser the news -- the United States had finally found the suspected mastermind of the September 11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Confirmation of Mohammed's capture in Pakistan a few hours later was a huge break for the U.S.-led war on terrorism and for Bush, who has come under heavy fire from Democrats and others for planning a massive war against Iraq while al Qaeda fugitives like Osama bin Laden and Mohammed remained at large. ''That's fantastic!'' Bush told...

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, 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...

March 2— By Tahir Ikram and Amir Zia ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - After a decade on the run, the suspected mastermind of the September 11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, was in U.S. custody on Sunday in what U.S. officials hailed as the biggest catch so far in the global war on terror.Arrested by plainclothes Pakistani security agents who raided a house in the central city of Rawalpindi in a pre-dawn raid on Saturday, Mohammed was branded by Washington as one of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's "most senior and significant lieutenants."Mohammed, whose arrest is a coup for the United States...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan March 1 — Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, was handed over to the United States and taken to an undisclosed location outside the country, a senior government official said Sunday."He's no longer in Pakistan," the official said on condition of anonymity. He said Mohammed was handed over to U.S. authorities after being interrogated by Pakistani officials.Mohammed was arrested along with an unidentified man of Middle Eastern origin and a Pakistani identified as Ahmed Abdul Qadoos, a 42-year-old member of one of the country's main religious parties, Jamaat-e-Islami.The other foreigner captured in the...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Khalid Shaikh Mohammed turned Osama bin Laden's wish to kill Americans into a reality like no one else in al-Qaida, U.S. counterterrorism officials say. Mohammed, one of the most hunted men in the world and the suspected mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, was captured early Saturday in Pakistan in a raid conducted jointly by Pakistani authorities and American intelligence operatives. "This is major. This is a dramatic capture of someone who is directly responsible for the Sept. 11 disaster," said Vince Cannistraro, a former CIA counterterrorism chief. "He should be aware of impending operations both in...

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...

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...

March 1— ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's arrest of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed on Saturday is the biggest catch yet in the global hunt for al Qaeda suspects triggered by the September 11 attacks on the United States. Kuwaiti-born Mohammed was one of three al Qaeda suspects detained in the city of Rawalpindi near the Pakistani capital Islamabad as part of Pakistan's support for President Bush's war on terror.Mohammed, self-proclaimed head of al Qaeda's military committee and identified by U.S. investigators as the key planner of the suicide plane attacks on New York and Washington, has been seen as pivotal to the...

<p>Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks in the United States, was arrested Saturday in Pakistan, a senior Pakistan government source told The Associated Press.</p>

Sat March 1, 2003 03:34 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The capture of suspected Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is "extraordinarily significant" because he is critical to planning future assaults on the United States, a senior U.S. official said on Saturday. "He's the senior-most al Qaeda guy to be captured yet," the official told Reuters. "He was critical to not only the planning for the September 11, 2001, attacks but also is central to the planning for future attacks, so his capture is extraordinarily significant," he said. Pakistan said it had arrested Mohammed on Saturday in a major breakthrough...