[FairOpinion]

Long, but it was interesting.

Sounds like Mohammed was more driven by power and ambition, than by religious conviction.

[The Great Satan]

"To be honest, it wasn't until recently that any of us even realized he was part of al Qaeda," a U.S. intelligence official said in an interview last year.

That's because he isn't a part of Al-Qaeda, any more than Ramzi Yousef was ever a part of Al-Qaeda.

[The Great Satan]

The known shards of Mohammed's life never quite seemed to fit together.

That's because they are a tissue of lies.

[The Great Satan]

The family's Pakistani roots meant they were shut out of Kuwaiti citizenship. There wasn't much of a future in Kuwait for an ambitious foreign boy.

That's funny, because Khalid's "nephew," Ramzi Yousef/Abdul Basit, found a job working for the Kuwaiti government as a computer programmer on his return from the UK in 1989.

[The Great Satan]

Mohammed, characteristically, left a faint impression during the three years he spent pursuing an engineering degree at two North Carolina campuses in the mid-1980s; even the FBI's "Most Wanted" photographs barely stirred recollections among his former professors.

Gee, I wonder why.

[The Great Satan]

"Though he womanized and spent time at dive resorts, there is no evidence that he drank alcohol," said Zachary Abuza, an expert on terrorism in Southeast Asia who teaches at Simmons College in Boston. "I think we have to look at some of his 'playboy' lifestyle as part of his cover."

Next time the wife catches you banging cocktail waitresses or trying to impress some Philippina dental assistant by buzzing her in a rented helicopter, just tell her it's part of your "cover." Works every time.