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The rugged, dry hills and valleys of the Baluchistan region of Pakistan was home to KSM’s family.

First Signs of KSM The FBI took the lead role in investigating the bombing, and soon its agents learned that Yousef had planned the attack. They also learned that he and his group had received some money from overseas. Someone named Khalid Shaykh in the Middle Eastern nation of Qatar had sent money to help fund the attack. With further investigating, the FBI learned that the sender was Yousef’s uncle, and his full name was Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Mohammed was born in Kuwait but his family’s roots were in a region of Pakistan called Balochistan. His father was an imam, a religious leader in the Islamic faith. As a young man, Mohammed traveled to the United States to

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