Sheikh Mohammed

 Sheikh Mohammed was an al-Qaeda member and was the leader of al-Qaeda's propaganda activities from 1999 to late 2001. The 1st of March, 2003, Mohammed was arrested in Rawalpindi (Pakistan) through an operation that was a mix of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence. Mohammad was taken to the secret CIA prisons in Afghanistan and Poland immediately after his capture. He was later detained by U.S. operatives. [8] By December 2006, he had been transferred to military custody at Guantanamo Bay detention camp.In March 2007, following extensive interrogations, Mohammed confessed to masterminding the September 11 attacks and the Richard Reid shoe bombing attempt to destroy an airliner; the Bali nightclub bombing in Indonesia; the 1993 World Trade Center bombing; the murder of Daniel Pearl; and various unsuccessful attacks as well as numerous other crimes. He was indicted in February 2008 with war crimes and murder by an U.S. military commission at Guantanamo Bay detention camp, which could carry the death penalty in the event of conviction. In 2012 the former military prosecutor criticized the proceedings as unsupportable because of confessions made under torture. A 2008 decision by the United States Supreme Court had been able to question the legality of the procedures employed to obtain such confessions and also the admissibility of these admissions as evidence in criminal proceedings.