Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was considered to be Osama Bin Laden’s right hand man in the terrorist group called al-Qaeda. Mohammed admitted to doing various horrible things in his life time just a few include masterminding the attack on the Twin Towers, shoe bomb in an airliner, killing of Daniel Pearl, and a night club bombing in Indonesia to name a few of many. But was Khalid’s mind always filled with treacherous deadly thoughts?
Khalid Sheikh Mohammad was born on April 14th, 1965 in Baluchistan, Pakistan. He became part of the Baloch ethnic group and ended learning a variety of languages. After hearing a speech he went and called for jihad against the Soviets. He came to the United States to attend Chowan College in North Carolina and later transferred to North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University to get a bachelors in Science in mechanical engineering. He went back to Pakistan and his hate for the U.S. began as he learned about the U.S. foreign policy favoring Israel. He married and moved his family to Qatar.
Right now Mohammed is kept custody in Guantanamo Bay detention camp where the CIA has brought out copious amounts of information. He was captured in 2003 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan where he was in hiding. Khalid was captured by the CIA and Inter-Services Intelligence and was handed over to the U.S. government.
Opinion: Some say that what the CIA is doing to him is considered torture but to me it’s called serving justice. He has killed thousands of people and stood behind Bin Laden through it all. I hope though that what we are doing isn’t too inhumane. I believe that he has what is being given to him.
Cited Sources:
http://projects.nytimes.com/guantanamo/detainees/10024-khalid-shaikh-mohammed
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalid_Sheikh_Mohammed
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/khalid-sheikh-mohammed/
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Very well done Jacob!!