Person
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
Al Qaeda member who proposed and ran the planning of the 11 September attacks, according to the 9/11 Commission.
- Also known as
- KSM
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- Q319068
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- Attacks of 11 September 2001 proposed the operation to Bin Laden in 1996 Primary record 1
- Tora Bora meeting of 1996 presented the ideas Primary record 1
Proof 1 source
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The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, 9-11-commission, 22 Jul 2004.
Primary record
KSM then accepted Bin Ladin’s standing invitation to move to Kandahar and work directly with al Qaeda. In addition to supervising the planning and preparations for the 9/11 operation, KSM worked with and eventually led al Qaeda’s media committee.
But KSM states he refused to swear a formal oath of allegiance to Bin Ladin, thereby retaining a last vestige of his cherished autonomy.
KSM also presented a proposal for an operation that would involve training pilots who would crash planes into buildings in the United States.
Through Atef, KSM arranged a meeting with Bin Ladin in Tora Bora, a mountainous redoubt from the Afghan war days. At the meeting, KSM presented the al Qaeda leader with a menu of ideas for terrorist operations.
Assessing the truth of statements by these witnesses—sworn enemies of the United States—is challenging. Our access to them has been limited to the review of intelligence reports based on communications received from the locations where the actual interrogations take place.
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