The Capture Of Khalid Sheikh Mohammad
By Yoram Schweitzer
1 Mar 2003
At the beginning of March, American-Pakistani security co-operation resulted in the arrest of Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, the operational commander of the 11 September terrorist attack in the United States. President George W Bush described this development as a 'fantastic achievement,' and it is undoubtedly a major accomplishment for the United States and its allies in their war against international terrorism, in general, and Al Qa'ida and its associated terror networks, in particular. While Khalid Sheikh's capture is but the latest in a long series of arrests stretching over the last eighteen months of terror activists, it is nevertheless much more significant than any that went before it, in terms of both symbolic and operational implications, explains Yoram Schweitzer.
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1 Mar 2003
At the beginning of March, American-Pakistani security co-operation resulted in the arrest of Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, the operational commander of the 11 September terrorist attack in the United States. President George W Bush described this development as a 'fantastic achievement,' and it is undoubtedly a major accomplishment for the United States and its allies in their war against international terrorism, in general, and Al Qa'ida and its associated terror networks, in particular. While Khalid Sheikh's capture is but the latest in a long series of arrests stretching over the last eighteen months of terror activists, it is nevertheless much more significant than any that went before it, in terms of both symbolic and operational implications, explains Yoram Schweitzer.
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