Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is an Islamist militant who served as an operational planner for al-Qaeda. He is known for masterminding the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in 2001, and for the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. He was captured by U.S. and Pakistani authorities in 2003.
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