Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

The 9/11 Commission Report states that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was the principal architect of the 9/11 attacks. He has confessed to a role in many of the most significant terrorist plots over the last twenty years, including the World Trade Center 1993 bombings, the Operation Bojinka plot, the 9/11 attacks, an aborted 2002 attack on the U.S. Bank Tower in Los Angeles, the Bali nightclub bombings, the failed bombing of American Airlines Flight 63, the Millennium Plot, and the murder of Daniel Pearl.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was arrested on March 1, 2003 in Pakistan by Pakistani security officials (ISI) working with the CIA, and is currently being held at Guantanamo Bay. During U.S. hearings in March 2007 Sheikh Mohammed confessed full responsibility for the attacks, saying "I was responsible for the 9/11 operation, from A to Z. Mohammed made the confession after being subject to waterboarding. He was charged on February 11, 2008, with war crimes and murder by a military commission and would have faced the death penalty if convicted as he undoubtedly would have been.
On January 22, 2009, as a first act as President, Obama signed an order to suspend the proceedings of the Guantanamo military commission and said that the detention facility would be shut down within the year. In November 2009, the Obama Administration announced that Mohammed and four accused co-conspirators would not be tried in Guantanamo by a military court but would be transferred from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to stand trial in civilian court near Ground Zero in New York. No trial date was given. The Obama Administration expressed confidence that the defendants would get a fair trial that was "open to the public and open to the world.”
Over a year after announcing five Sept. 11 plotters, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, would be tried in lower Manhattan for killing 2,973 people, Obama is no closer to bringing them to justice, nor to closing Guantanamo. He does not know how to proceed on either.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is a Kuwaiti-born terrorist. Bin Laden urged Mohammed to become a full-fledged member of al-Qaeda, but he refused until 1999, when he became convinced that Osama was committed to attacking the USA, following the African Embassy bombings and the 1998 fatwa issued by bin Laden outlined his objections to American foreign policy towards Israel, as well as the continued presence of American troops in Saudi Arabia after the Gulf War. Even then Mohammed continued to have autonomy within al-Qaeda.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his family are the architects of 9/11 and similar attacks. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's association with Osama bin Laden was secondary but sufficient to allow al-Qaeda, headed by Osama bin Laden, to claim responsibility for the attacks
Mohamed Atta, from Egypt, was the ringleader of the 19 hijackers and one of the pilots. Fifteen of the hijackers were from Saudi Arabia, two from the United Arab Emirates, one from Egypt (Atta), and one from Lebanon. Most of the operational meetings leading up to the 9/11 attacks were held in Hamburg.