Cika wannan magana: A ranar 1 ga Maris, 2003, an kama Khalid Shaikh Mohammed a lokacin da CIA ta jagoranci hare-hare a cikin unguwar Rawalpindi, mai nisan mil tara daga babban birnin Pakistan na Islamabad. A lokacin da aka kama shi, Mohammed shi ne na uku mafi girma a cikin al-Qaeda kuma yana da alhakin kai tsaye na shirin kai hare-haren 11 ga Satumba. Sauran abubuwan da aka danganta da Mohammed sun hada da: umarnin kisan dan jaridar Wall Street Journal Daniel Pearl, da fashewar bam din USS Cole, yunkurin Richard Reid na busa wani jirgin saman farar hula da bam din takalmi, da
harin ta'addanci a majami'ar El Ghriba da ke Djerba, Tunisia. Khalid Shaikh Mohammed ya bayyana kansa a matsayin shugaban kwamitin soja na al-Qaeda.