According to the LAT, KSM's father was an Imam, his mother had a job laying out dead Muslim women at the Kuwaiti mosque, and his brother was a leader of the (extremist) Muslim Brotherhood at the University of Kuwait. At least two brothers of Mohammed (who didn't attend school in the U.S.) were killed as Mujadeen.
The assertion that Mohammed (if it's the same guy) "grew bitter in the West" is laughable.
Secondly, the AP infers that Mohammed's education was paid for by the Kuwaiti government: "the Kuwaiti government paid its citizens to attend universities in the United States. Engineering seems to be a draw because, perhaps, of Kuwait's oil production," but the LA Times story infers that he was not a citizen of Kuwait (which Kuwait now contends), because his parents were born in Pakistan (Baluchistan), and Kuwait does not confer citizenship on foreign workers. Mohammed's first passport was from Pakistan, and he returned to Pakistan, not Kuwait, after college -- which would seem to confirm Kuwait's contention.
It was assumed that Mohammed's family paid for his education in the LA Times story, but there are no facts as yet to confirm that.
I wonder if either college has records of where the tuition came from?
Obviously, that wasn't all they were interested. I'll never understand why people who hate America come to America. In the words of GW:
"They hate what they see right here in this chamber: A democratically elected government. Their leaders are self-appointed. They hate our freedoms: our freedom of religion, our freedom of speech, our freedom to vote and assemble and disagree with each other."
But there is more, they hate America's superiority and military might, the U.S. is now undoubtedly the world's only superpower affecting and influencing the lives of millions around the world with its economic power and popular culture.