Meet Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the main conspirator of 9/11 attacks

New Delhi : Khalid Sheikh Mohammed led al-Qaeda's propaganda operations from around 1999 until late 2001.He was identified as main conspirator of the 9/11 attacks by the 9/11 Commission Report.In April 2002 Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, together with Ramzi bin al-Shibh, gave an interview to the al-Jazeera correspondent Yosri Fouda.They described the preparations for 9/11 attacks and said that they first thought of “striking at a couple of nuclear facilities” in the USA but then “it was eventually decided to leave out nuclear targets for now. Mohammed was born in 1960's at Balochistan, Pakistan and was brought up in Kuwait.He joined Muslim Brotherhood at the age of sixteen. He did his schooling from Kuwait and later moved to Chowan College in Murfreesboro, North Carolina for further studies. He did his Bachelor of Science (BS) in mechanical engineering from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in 1986.After completing his bachelor he moved back to Peshawar, Pakistan and joined mujahideen forces .He has also worked for the magazine al-Bunyan al-Marsous, produced by Sayyaf's rebel group. He did his masters in Islamic Culture and History from Punjab University in Pakistan.He know four languages in total,they are: Arabic, English, Urdu, and Balochi.He has also worked as a project engineer with the Qatari Ministry of Electricity and Water. In March 2007, through the use of enhanced interrogation techniques, Mohammed confessed to masterminding the September 11 attacks, the Richard Reid shoe bombing attempt to blow up an airliner, the Bali nightclub bombing in Indonesia, the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the murder of Daniel Pearl, and various foiled attacks, as well as numerous other crimesPresently he is held in U.S. military custody in Guantanamo Bay detention camp. Mohammed was captured by CIA ,ISI forces at Rawalpindi and was handed over to U.S. CIA custody in 2003.He was transferred to Guantanamo Bay in 2006. He is one of 16 high-value detainees. As of January 2010, the Guantánamo Review Task Force had recommended him for prosecution.As of March 20, 2014, he has been held at Guantánamo for seven years six months. He has been charged with war crimes.