Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed (Aliases: Ashraf Refaat Nabith Henin, Khalid Adbul Wadood, Salem Ali, and Fahd Bin Adballah Bin Khalid) (b. 1964/5) is believed to have been the military head of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda organization, and was reportedly the mastermind of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack and other al-Qaeda attacks. On March 1, 2003, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was reported to have been arrested in Pakistan. He is now believed to be in the hands of the US government.
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Born in Kuwait, his date of birth has been variously reported as March 1, 1964 or April 14, 1965.
Plot to bomb aircraft in Asia
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was also wanted for his alleged involvement in a conspiracy plot to bomb commercial United States airliners flying routes to the United States from Southeast Asia in 1995. In January, 1995, the United States learned of a plot based in Manila to bomb 12 commercial jumbo jets of United States carriers flying Asian-Pacific routes. In December, 1994, the conspirators had engaged in a test on a Phillippines airliner using only about 10 percent of the explosives that were to be used in each of the bombs to be planted on United States airliners. The test resulted in the death of a Japanese national on board a flight from the Phillippines to Japan.
He was indicted in the Southern District of New York in January of 1996.
Other Attacks
Mohammed is also a suspect in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the USS Cole bombing and the Tunisian synogogue bombing.