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Khalid Sheikh Mohammad studied here at Chowan College in Murfreesboro, North Carolina.

study in North Carolina. After he graduated, Mohammed went to Pakistan and trained at one of the camps there for Arabs who wanted to take part in jihad. By the early 1990s he was raising money for organizations or individuals look- ing to carry out jihad—like his nephew, Yousef. After the 1993 Word Trade Center bombing, Yousef knew the FBI was af- ter him so he fled the United States. But he didn’t stop trying to carry out more terrorist attacks, with his uncle taking a more active part in the planning. In the Philippines, Mohammed joined Yousef and the two worked on a bomb made of liquids they could smuggle onto planes. Yousef, a skilled bomb maker, also devised a small bomb that could be set off with an electrical timer. The two

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