Whakakiia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te 1 o Poutu-te-rangi 2003, i hopukina a Khalid Shaikh Mohammed i te wa o nga whakaekenga i arahina e te CIA i 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 ētahi atu kaupapa i 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 tētahi waka rererangi tūmatanui ki tētahi punga hu, me
te whakaeke kaiwhakatuma i te whare karakia o El Ghriba i Djerba, Tunisia. Kua whakaahuatia e Khalid Shaikh Mohammed ia ano hei upoko o te komiti hoia a al-Qaeda.