Tuhia he tomokanga mō tēnei wāhanga - I te 1 o Poutu-te-rangi 2003, i hopukina a Khalid Shaikh Mohammed i te wā o ngā whakaekenga i arahina e te CIA ki te taone nui o Rawalpindi, e iwa maero i waho o te taone nui o Pakistan o Islamabad. I te wa i hopukina ai ia, ko Mohammed te tuatoru o nga rangatira rangatira o al-Qaeda, a, ko ia tonu te kawenga mo te whakamahere mo nga whakaeke o te Mahuru 11. Ko etahi atu huihuinga kua honoa ki a Mohammed ko: te whakahau i te kohuru o te kairipoata Wall Street Journal a Daniel Pearl, te whakaeke i te USS Cole, te ngana a Richard Reid ki te whakaeke i tetahi rererangi rererangi me te pupuhi hu, me te whakaeke kaiwhakatuma i te whare karakia o El Ghriba
i Djerba, i Tunisia. Kua whakaahuatia e Khalid Shaikh Mohammed ia ano hei upoko o te komiti hoia a al-Qaeda.