The confessed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, is a Pakistani Baluch. He was born in Kuwait to Pakistani parents on April 19, 1965.
After high school in Kuwait, he enrolled at Chowan College in North Carolina in January 1984, before transferring to North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, where he received his degree in December 1986.
In the late 1980s he moved to Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar, where he became acquainted with Osama Bin Laden.
Mohammed first achieved notoriety with the discovery of the plot to blow up U.S. airliners over the Pacific in 1995 — known as Operation Bojinka. The plan was reportedly foiled when police found incriminating computer files during their investigation into a separate plot to assassinate the Pope.
He is accused of serving as military operations commander for all of al Qaeda's foreign operations before his capture in Pakistan in 2003.
The Pentagon said he proposed the operational concept of the Sept. 11 attacks to al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden as early as 1996, oversaw the entire operation and trained the hijackers in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Mohammed has admitted to:
Organizing, planning, follow-up and execution of the 9/11 operation.
Responsibility for the earlier 1993 attack on the World Trade Center in New York, the bombing of nightclubs in Bali in 2002 and a Kenyan hotel in the same year.
Responsibility for the failed attempt by the so-called shoe bomber, Richard Reid, to bring down an American plane.
Plots to attack Heathrow Airport, Canary Wharf and Big Ben in London, to hit targets in Israel, and to blow up the Panama Canal.
A plot to hit towers in the U.S. cities of Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago and the Empire State Building in New York, and to attack U.S. nuclear power plants.
Plots to assassinate the late Pope John Paul II and former U.S. President Bill Clinton.
He said he had used his own "blessed right hand" to behead Daniel Pearl.
Charges: Conspiracy. Murder in violation of the law of war, attacking civilians, attacking civilian objects, intentionally causing serious bodily injury, destruction of property in violation of the law of war, terrorism and providing material support for terrorism Hijacking or hazarding a vessel.
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