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U.S. May Have Taken Sept. 11 Suspect to Afghanistan

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan said on Tuesday that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, was in U.S. hands, probably in Afghanistan.

U.S. officials said on Monday that Mohammed, the biggest catch so far in the global war on terror, was already in their custody outside Pakistan but Islamabad insisted he only left on Tuesday morning.

"He is somewhere in this region," Pakistan Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed told Reuters. "Most probably he is in Afghanistan."

And yet... from the 30 October 2002 Asia Times...

A chilling inheritance of terror

KARACHI - Ever since the frenzied shootout last month on September 11 in Karachi there have been doubts over whether Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the self-proclaimed head of al-Qaeda's military committee, died in the police raid on his apartment.

Certainly, another senior al-Qaeda figure, Ramzi Binalshibh, widely attributed as being the coordinator of the September 11 attacks on the United States a year earlier, was taken alive and handed over to the US. The latest information is that he is on a US warship somewhere in the Gulf.

Now it has emerged that Kuwaiti national Khalid Shaikh Mohammed did indeed perish in the raid, but his wife and child were taken from the apartment and handed over to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), in whose hands they remain.

Conspiracy theorists... on your marks, get set...