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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

Pakistani militant (born 1965)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 22, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is a Kuwaiti-born Pakistani militant, and the former head of propaganda for al-Qaeda. As of 2026, he is held by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp under terrorism-related charges. He was named as "the principal architect of the 9/11 attacks" in the 2004 9/11 Commission Report.

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The public source identifies “Khalid Sheikh Mohammed” as pakistani militant (born 1965). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Khalid, Sheikh and Mohammed.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2026, 2004—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Khalid, Sheikh and Mohammed providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Khalid Sheikh Mohammed” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.