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Do not fill this in! ==== Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other Al-Qaeda members ==== {{Main|Khalid Sheikh Mohammed|}}[[File:Khalid Shaikh Mohammed after capture.jpg|thumb|[[Khalid Sheikh Mohammed]] after his 2003 capture in [[Rawalpindi]], Pakistan]] Journalist [[Yosri Fouda]] of the Arabic television channel [[Al Jazeera Media Network|Al Jazeera]] reported that in April 2002 Al-Qaeda member [[Khalid Sheikh Mohammed]] admitted his involvement in the attacks, along with Ramzi bin al-Shibh.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/international/story/0,3604,906911,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080123195032/http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0%2C3604%2C906911%2C00.html |archive-date=January 23, 2008 |title=We left out nuclear targets, for now |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=March 4, 2003 |access-date=September 3, 2011 |quote=Yosri Fouda of the Arabic television channel al-Jazeera is the only journalist to have interviewed Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the al-Qaeda military commander arrested at the weekend. |location=London |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/3685099/Alleged-911-mastermind-wants-to-confess-to-plot.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/3685099/Alleged-911-mastermind-wants-to-confess-to-plot.html |archive-date=January 10, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Alleged 9/11 mastermind wants to confess to plot |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=October 10, 2008 |access-date=September 3, 2011 |location=London|first1=Tom|last1=Leonard |first2=Alex|last2=Spillius}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref name="aljazeera2007">{{cite news |date=March 15, 2007 |title=September 11 suspect 'confesses' |publisher=[[Al Jazeera English|Al Jazeera]] |url=http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2007/03/200852512026300115.html |access-date=September 3, 2011 |archive-date=September 27, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190927221043/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2007/03/200852512026300115.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The 2004 ''[[9/11 Commission Report]]'' determined that Mohammed's animosity towards the United States, the principal architect of the 9/11 attacks, stemmed from his "violent disagreement with U.S. foreign policy favoring Israel".<ref name="9/11 Commission Report 2004 p147">9/11 Commission Report (2004), p. 147.</ref> Mohammed was also an adviser and financier of the [[1993 World Trade Center bombing]] and the uncle of [[Ramzi Yousef]], the lead bomber in that attack.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/aug/26/white-house-power-grabs/|title=White House power grabs|date=August 26, 2009|work=[[The Washington Times]]|access-date=September 3, 2011|archive-date=December 5, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191205144643/https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/aug/26/white-house-power-grabs/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-04-04/khalid-sheikh-mohammed-terror-indictment-unsealed-dismissed.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110417023034/http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-04-04/khalid-sheikh-mohammed-terror-indictment-unsealed-dismissed.html|archive-date=April 17, 2011|title=Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Terror Indictment Unsealed, Dismissed |last1=Van Voris |first1=Bob |last2=Hurtado |first2=Patricia|date=April 4, 2011|work=[[Bloomberg BusinessWeek]]|access-date=September 3, 2011}}</ref> In late 1994, Mohammed and Yousef moved on to plan a new terrorist attack called the [[Bojinka plot]] planned for January 1995. Despite a failure and [[Ramzi Yousef#Arrest, conviction and prison life|Yousef's capture]] by U.S. forces the following month, the Bojinka plot would influence the later 9/11 attacks.{{sfn|Wright|2006|p={{page needed|date=September 2023}}}} In "Substitution for Testimony of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed" from the trial of [[Zacarias Moussaoui]], five people are identified as having been completely aware of the operation's details. They are bin Laden; Khalid Sheikh Mohammed; [[Ramzi bin al-Shibh]]; [[Abu Turab al-Urduni]]; and [[Mohammed Atef]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Substitution for Testimony of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed |page=24 |url=http://www.vaed.uscourts.gov/notablecases/moussaoui/exhibits/defense/941.pdf |year=2006 |publisher=[[United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia]] |access-date=September 3, 2011 |archive-date=October 26, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191026151908/http://www.vaed.uscourts.gov/notablecases/moussaoui/exhibits/defense/941.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). 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