The Mission To Catch Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

Photo: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

Inside The Mission To Catch Khalid Sheikh Mohammed -- Terry McDermott & Josh Meyer, The Atlantic

How the FBI, CIA, and Pakistani intelligence worked together -- or didn't -- in the global hunt for the mastermind behind September 11, 2001.

KARACHI, Pakistan, Autumn 2002 -- Everything the Americans could rustle up pointed to Karachi. Every source and bit of information said Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was operating out of the capital of Pakistan's Wild West. Back at Langley, the CIA's newly formed "KSM targeting team" had assembled a massive file on him that included all the disparate dots that the U.S. government had previously failed to connect. By then, a congressional joint inquiry was already cataloguing those failures. Once the Pakistani security services started looking in earnest, they found the same thing. Almost every Al Qaeda suspect they picked up in the last year had some connection to Mohammed. Many of those arrested had no links to one another, but they all knew Mohammed.

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My Comment: A riveting story on a manhunt that took years and .... I suspect .... covers only a small portion of what it took to capture this terror leader.