(Washington Post) Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the al Qaeda lieutenant alleged to have organized the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, was captured Sunday by U.S. and Pakistani intelligence agents in Rawalpindi, a five-minute drive from Pakistani army headquarters. Mohammed was apprehended along with two other suspected al Qaeda members whom authorities identified as a Pakistani and an Arab. Pakistani officials said word of Mohammed's presence in Rawalpindi was passed to them this week by U.S. intelligence officials in Islamabad. Mohammed had been hiding since January in the house of a Pakistani identified as Abdul Qudoos Khan, an active member of Pakistan's largest religious party, Jamaat-e-Islami. Considered the best-organized political party in Pakistan, Jamaat is part of a coalition of religious parties that forms the third-largest bloc in parliament.
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