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This is the guy who looks like John Belushi in that picture you see all over the place…

And what of the nefarious Osama Bin Laden? Does this mean that he wasn’t involved, if Mohammed was the “mastermind” and orchestrated everything from “A to Z.” (By the way, interesting use of the American vernacular — I wonder who the translator is?)…

Khalid has been a secretive mystery man, and at the same time, a publicity hound which raises some issues about who this terrible terrorist really is.

According to a 2003 Guardian report, “He was reported to have been killed in Karachi in a bloody shootout with Pakistani security forces on September 11, 2002 There is even doubt over his nationality. Some say he is Pakistani, others that he is a Kuwaiti. Certainly, though, he does appear to be of Pakistani origin, probably Baloch, and raised in Kuwait. He is thought to have been in Pakistan for about two-and-a-half years, well before September 11, 2001.

How did they find him? Great police work? Bombing “them back to the stone age? Nope. They saw him on TV…

Writes Dr Rohan Gunaratna, author of Inside al-Qaida: Global Network of Terror

“Although Mohammed insists that he is a believer, he is not a strict Muslim, and while the September hijackers lived in cheap lodgings, he stayed in plush hotels. In contrast to the spartan lifestyle of Osama bin Laden and his followers, he was flamboyant, spent lavishly, and is known to joke with colleagues to ease the pressure on him and on them.

In the Philippines. he was a frequent visitor to Manila’s red light district, including its karaoke bars and mirrored go-go clubs, where he introduced himself to women as a wealthy businessman from Qatar. Mohammed’s womanizing included phoning a dentist and telling her: “Look out of the window and look up.”

What she saw was Mohammed and his nephew and protege Ramzi Ahmed Yousef waving from a helicopter hovering above her clinic and displaying a banner saying “I love you.”

Is this for real or a segment on “24?” Is there a private joke here we are not getting? (Bear in mind that Ramzi and KSM’s “Bojinka” plans preceded 911 and were downplayed by the intelligence geniuses here.”

He seems ostentatious and self-promotional enough to rate a movie of his own, and no doubt several are now in development. Hollywood can’t pass up a character like him, an authentic “bad guy” who is said to “think big,” and conceptualize grand designs and blueprints. Who knows, he may get his own show.Can you imagine his “exclusive” interview with Diane Sawyer or Bill O’Reilly?

KSM knew how to play his role as mastermind extraordinaire, says a terror expert: “A master of disguise, he often tinted his hair, using wigs, sporting beards and moustache, and wearing glasses. He wore Asian or western clothes, spoke very good English and moved about frequently.” If this description of his English is accurate, what do we make of the convoluted language in his alleged “confession?”

If there isn’t a screenwriter behind this now, there might as well be.

Gullible-er and Gullible-er – mab