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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

Pakistani militant who was a member of al-Qaeda

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Born: 1965-04-14

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Type: Person
Country: IN
Active from: 1924-12-24
Active to: 1980-07-31

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Key facts

Born: ( 1965-04-14 ) 14 April 1965 (age 61) , Kuwait City , Kuwait
Arrested: 1 March 2003, Rawalpindi , Pakistan
Detained at: Guantanamo Bay detention camp
Status: Life imprisonment
Relatives: Zahid Al-Sheikh (brother), Ramzi Yousef (nephew) , Ammar al-Baluchi (nephew)

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Born: 14 April 1965

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Q16277895
Gender: male
Citizenship: Pakistan
Place of birth: Kuwait
Occupation: terrorist
Religion: Islam
Image: Khalid Shaikh Mohammed (beskåret).jpg

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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (born 14 April 1965; Urdu: خالد شیخ محمد; sometimes also spelled Shaykh; and known by at least 50 pseudonyms including his initials KSM), is a Kuwaiti-born Pakistani militant, and the former head of propaganda for al-Qaeda. As of 2026, he is held by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp under terrorism-related charges. He was named as "the principal architect of the 9/11 attacks" in the 2004 9/11 Commission Report.

Mohammed was a member of Osama bin Laden's militant organization al-Qaeda, leading al-Qaeda's propaganda operations from around 1999 until late 2001. Mohammed was captured on 1 March 2003, in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi by a combined operation of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). Immediately after his capture, Mohammed was kidnapped and taken to secret CIA prison sites in Afghanistan, then Poland, where he was interrogated and tortured by U.S. operatives. By December 2006, he had been transferred to military custody at Guantanamo Bay detention camp.