Sheik Mohammed: Guantanamo Bay Cuba

Interrogation Methods Dept: Two of the planes struck the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York, igniting fires that destroyed the 110-storey landmarks while a third crashed into the west wing of the Pentagon in Washington. A fourth plane, which was believed to be heading for the White House, crashed in a field 120 kilometres southeast of Pittsburgh. U.S. targets Al-Qaeda, according to CBC. Mohammed was captured in Pakistan in 2003, held in C.I.A.-run secret prisons until 2006 and then transferred to the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, set up in the wake of in 9/11. It was at hearings there that he reportedly admitted to planning the 9/11 attacks and several other plots although a U.S. Justice Department memo released later showed that he had been subject to waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods while in custody. He is set to be tried by a military commission at Guantanamo along with four other men charged in connection with the 9/11 attacks: Walid bin Attash, Ramzi bin Al-Shibh, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, and Mustafa Al-Hawsawi and on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, four U.S. airliners were turned into guided missiles after they were hijacked by al-Qaeda suicide bombers and crashed into three sites in the U.S., killing approximately 3,000 people. Not long after Sept. 11, U.S. officials accused Kuwait-born Khalid Sheik Mohammed of being the senior al-Qaeda strategist who orchestrated the attacks. Mohammed had been previously implicated in a 1995 plot known as Operation Bojinka, an early attempt at a Sept. 11-style assault. The plot was uncovered by police in the Philippines before it could be carried out. The World Trade Center south tower, left, bursts into flames after being struck by hijacked United Airlines Flight 175, as the north tower burns following an earlier attack in New York City on Sept. 11, 2001 Sean Adair/Files/Reuters As reported in the news.
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