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A 2021 date has been established for the death-penalty trial of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four other men charged as the masterminds behind the September 11 attack in New York City. Colonel W. Shane Cohen of the Air Force announced on Friday that the trial is set for January 11, 2021. The case will take place at Camp Justice at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba. Cohen set the date so that a military jury could be selected, the New York Times reports.

Despite his 2008 campaign promise to close the U.S. government's detention center for suspected terrorists at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, President Barack Obama's administration last week announced plans to spend $195 million on renovation and new construction there—strongly implying that the nation’s taxpayers can expect to pay to imprison the center's 166 inmates, 86 of whom have been cleared of wrongdoing, for many years to come. Initially, on Wednesday, General John F. Kelly, Commander of the U.S. Southern Command, requested $150 million to $170 million for renovations to the prison complex, including $99 million for two barracks facilities, $12 million for...

Khalid Shaikh Mohammed will likely be held in military prison without a trial indefinitely as the Obama administration decides what to do with the 9/11 mastermind, according to a new report. A trial - civilian or military - is not expected to happen before the next presidential election, the Washington Post reported Saturday. The Obama administration apparently fears backlash will come from either decision.

Condemned Briton's 'Heartbroken' Family Beg For Compassion from China The family of Akmal Shaikh, the British man condemned to death in China, have made a last-minute appeal to the Chinese authorities to show mercy. By David Eimer in Beijing 28 Dec 2009 Akmal Shaikh, a British national who is facing the death penalty in China for possession of heroin Photo: AFP/GETTY Mr Shaikh is due to be executed in Urumqi at 10.30am Tuesday morning local time for heroin smuggling. "We're here to plead for clemency and we hope the Chinese government shows compassion. His life is in their hands now,"...

Note: The following text is a quote: Former CEO of YouSendIt Charged with Denial of Service of Attack SAN JOSE, CA—Khalid Shaikh, a former CEO of YouSendIt Inc., was indicted by a federal grand jury yesterday with four counts of mail fraud, United States Attorney Joseph P. Russoniello announced. The indictment states that between December 2008 and June 2009 Shaikh used the ApacheBench software program to launch four denial of service (DOS) attacks against YouSendIt’s servers. Each DOS attack temporarily rendered the servers incapable of handling legitimate network traffic and deprived YouSendIt’s customers use of the company’s services. YouSendIt is...

Muslim extremist admits he was spy who revealed Canada bomb plot By Toby Harnden (Filed: 16/07/2006) Muslim leaders in Canada have reacted with fury after a radical advocate of Sharia law revealed that he had been a government spy who helped to uncover an alleged al-Qaeda plot, writes Toby Harnden. Mubin Shaikh, 29, came forward to confirm that he was recruited by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), the country's equivalent of MI5, and directed a 10-day winter training course in guerrilla tactics. During the course, which Mr Shaikh set up in a field in the remote village of Washago,...

TORONTO – The surprise announcement by a prominent Muslim leader here that he was an informant who helped authorities arrest 17 Muslims on terrorism charges has raised questions in the Muslim community over the ethics of informing versus a responsibility to stop violence. Since outing himself as an informant who infiltrated and trained with the suspects, Mubin Shaikh has come under harsh criticism by some Toronto Muslims and sparked a debate about how far citizens should go in aiding police investigations, even as he has been hailed as a hero in the mainstream media.

To hear Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed tell it, Osama bin Laden was a meddling boss whose indiscretion and poor judgment threatened to derail the terrorist attacks. He also saddled Mohammed with at least four would-be hijackers who the ringleader thought were ill-equipped for the job. And he carelessly dropped hints about the imminent attacks, violating Mohammed's cardinal rule against discussing the suicide hijacking plot. Mohammed described Al Qaeda in a written statement for his U.S. interrogators as an almost mystically efficient corporation that operates in ways Americans would never understand. "You must study these matters to know the...

August 11, 2004 -- A Pakistani who lives in Queens is being held in Charlotte, N.C., after videotaping skyscrapers in six major U.S. cities and making mysterious money transfers totaling $120,000, prosecutors said yesterday. Kamran Shaikh, 35, a father of three who lives in Elmhurst, also videotaped mass-transit systems in four of the cities and a dam in Texas, prosecutors said. Shaikh, who has lived in the United States for 13 years and has used the alias Kamran Akhtar, is being held without bail on immigration charges. He was busted in Charlotte on July 20 after Police Officer Anthony Maglione...

The spiritual leader of the Islamist resistance group Hamas has been injured after Israeli missiles slammed into a Palestinian apartment block in a densely populated area of Gaza City.Shaikh Ahmad Yassin was slightly injured following the attack on Saturday, Hamas spokesman Abd al-Aziz al-Rantissi told Aljazeera. The wheelchair-bound Yassin, a co-founder of Hamas and its spiritual leader, has been treated at Shifa Hospital.The paraplegic, wheelchair-bound, 67-year-old was visiting an acquaintance in Gaza with Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyyeh when the residential building they were in was hit by an Israeli warplane, Haniyyeh told Aljazeera.Seventeen people, mostly women and children, were wounded in the raid.Israeli...

American threat to human raceMasud Akhtar ShaikhThe writer is a retired Colonel and freelance columnistmasudshaikh@hotmail.comBeginning with the last stages of the Second World War, American leaders have been following a policy directed towards winning the United States the unique distinction of becoming the world's only country with the maximum number of human killings to its credit. This is why for decades they have been ruthlessly spending billions of dollars from the taxpayers' hard-earned money on the development of various weapons of mass destruction. Simultaneously, they remain in search of countries that could serve as the testing grounds for the...

<p>Not for commercial use. Solely to be used for the educational purposes of research and open discussion.</p> <p>One unnerving detail in the biography of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, whose alleged career killing Americans was cut off Saturday by his arrest in Pakistan, shows that he is very familiar with the U.S. society he evidently hates: He went to college in North Carolina.</p>

Letters of Ben Laden found on Sheik Mohammed Handwritten letters of Oussama Ben Laden found on the high-person in charge for Al-Qaïda Khaled Sheik Mohammed, stopped Saturday in Pakistan, would tend to prove that the head of the terrorist network is alive and hides "in the area", affirmed Wednesday a person in charge for safety pakistanaise."Il has there élements like letters and other things which were in possession of Khaled Sheik Mohammed which strongly suggests that Ben Laden is alive and could hide in the area ", it declared with the AFP.

It's not a question of whether we should kill him, it's whether we should torture him first. I'm talking about Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. The "mastermind" of Al Qaeda, the guy who came up with September 11. The guy who helped bomb the World Trade Center in 1993. And who wanted to blow up 11 U.S. jetliners and crash another one into the CIA headquarters. The guy who blew up our embassies in Africa and who attacked the USS Cole and who killed Daniel Pearl and blew up that Tunisian synagogue. That guy. We all know how his story is going...

BAGRAM, Afghanistan (AP) - Mystery surrounds the whereabouts of al-Qaida mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who was captured in Pakistan over the weekend in a joint raid by CIA agents and Pakistani police. Some say Mohammed was brought here to Bagram after his capture Saturday, joining an unknown number of al-Qaida and Taliban suspects at a secretive holding facility at America's main military base in Afghanistan. Intelligence sources in Pakistan say he was flown from the Pakistani Air Base at Chaklala, outside the federal capital to Bagram Air Base. The U.S. is refusing to say where Mohammed has been taken....

ACCUSED September 11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was carrying the names and phone numbers of members of al-Qaeda sleeper cells in North America when he was arrested, intelligence officials have said. His detention in Pakistan could disrupt acts of terror in the planning stages, authorities in Washington said. Vincent Cannistraro, a former counter-terrorism chief for the CIA, said Mohammed would likely be interrogated "with some urgency" about al-Qaeda attacks that might be imminent. Western intelligence officials have said Mohammed actively recruited terrorists for a new wave of attacks against Americans at home and abroad. He is also alleged to have...

Hunt for captured al-Qaida fugitive started with narrow escape in southwestern Pakistan RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) - The stunning arrest of Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed by Pakistani intelligence and CIA agents began with a near miss last month in a dusty border town and became a feverish chase fueled by communications intercepts and suspects' interrogations, security officials said Sunday. Mohammed, an unidentified man of Middle Eastern origin and Pakistani Ahmed Abdul Qadus were arrested early Saturday in Rawalpindi, a bustling city adjacent to the capital. Mohammed and the unidentified man were handed over to U.S. authorities and spirited...

RAWALPINDI, March 1: The government claimed on Saturday to have arrested four Al Qaeda "terrorists" from here, three of them identified as foreigners. Senior government officials said the government had obtained solid proof of the involvement of the arrested persons in activities related to Al Qaeda. The arrests, it has been learnt, were made in two separate raids in the cantonment area. Though the government claimed the arrests were made by the police, a source, however, said the police had nothing to do with the arrests which were made by the FBI in collaboration with national intelligence agencies. But...

OTTAWA - A Canadian expert on terrorist networks says the arrest of a top al-Qaeda member in Pakistan suggests the U.S. may be closer to cornering Osama bin Laden. On Saturday, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was picked up during an early-morning raid on a house in Pakistan. He's accused of coming up with the idea of turning passenger planes into missiles for an attack against the United States on Sept. 11, 2001. The arrest is significant for several reasons, according to Martin Rudner, director of the Canadian Centre of Intelligence and Security Studies (CCISS) and a professor at Carleton University...

RAWALPINDI -- Three suspected terrorists including two foreigners were arrested from Rawalpindi in the wee hours of Saturday in two operations jointly launched by American FBI and local sensitive agencies, and it was suspected that one of the arrested foreigners was Khalid Sheikh Muhammad an operational chief of al-Qaeda, confirmed the sources in the Federal government. In the first operation launched at a house in Westridge-2, Nisar Road at 2.30am these agencies rounded up one Ahmad Qadoos, followed by a thorough search of the house and taking away of a tape-recorder, few cassettes, a computer set and few other...