FBI interrogate 9/11 mastermind in Pakistan

KHALID SHAIKH MOHAMMED, the suspected mastermind of the September 11 terrorist attacks and one of Osama bin Laden’s most senior lieutenants, was yesterday under interrogation by FBI agents at an unknown location in Pakistan, security officials said.

Pakistani officials said Mohammed was handed over to the US following his seizure in a pre-dawn raid in Rawalpindi on Saturday and was due to be flown early yesterday to the US-controlled air base at Bagram in Afghanistan.

But Interior Minister Faisal Saleh Hayat insisted Mohammed was still in Pakistan yesterday and was being interrogated by Pakistani intelligence agents.