Author: UNI
Publication: The Hindu
Date: June 6, 2002
URL: http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/holnus/02062211.htm
In what could be a major embarrassment
for Islamabad, Kuwait today denied that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who has
identified by US intelligence sources as the brain behind the September
11 attacks, was a Kuwaiti and claimed he was a Pakistani national.
A statement from the Kuwaiti Embassy
here quoted its Minister of Information Sheikh Ahmed Fahd Ahmed Al-Sabah
as saying that Khalid was a Pakistani national, born in Kuwait, and that
people born in the Gulf State did not automatically qualify for citizenship.
They pointed out that while Khalid
was born in Kuwait on April 24, 1965, he had a Pakistani passport (No.
AK 488555), issued by the Pakistani Embassy in Kuwait on December 6, 1982.
He had left the country in the mid-eighties, probably to join those fighting
in Afghanistan, the statement said.
Kuwait was against all types of
terrorism and had joined hands with the world community in fighting the
menace in all its forms the statement added.
