{"id":95,"date":"2008-06-21T19:19:33","date_gmt":"2008-06-22T02:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/xsml\/archives\/95"},"modified":"2008-06-21T19:19:33","modified_gmt":"2008-06-22T02:19:33","slug":"crime-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2008\/06\/21\/crime-2\/","title":{"rendered":"crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What happened next in the life of a small-time revolutionary after he was given <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/22\/washington\/22ksm.html?pagewanted=4\">$25 million<\/a> and was repatriated to the U.S. with a new identity, might make for quite a show:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The hunt for Khalid Shaikh Mohammed involved the entire American intelligence establishment, with its billion-dollar arrays of spy satellites and global eavesdropping net. But his capture came down to a simple text message sent from an informant who had slipped into the bathroom of a house in Rawalpindi, near the Pakistani capital, Islamabad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am with K.S.M.,\u201d the message said, according to an intelligence officer briefed on the episode.<\/p>\n<p>The capture team waited a few hours before going in on the night of March 1, 2003, to blur the connection to the informant, a walk-in attracted by the offer of a $25 million reward. The informant, described by one American who met him as \u201ca little guy who looked like a farmer,\u201d would later get a face-to-face thank you from George J. Tenet, then the C.I.A. director, at the American Embassy in Abu Dhabi, intelligence officials say, and he was resettled with his reward money under a new identity in the United States.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happened next in the life of a small-time revolutionary after he was given $25 million and was repatriated to the U.S. with a new identity, might make for quite a show: The hunt for Khalid Shaikh Mohammed involved the entire American intelligence establishment, with its billion-dollar arrays of spy satellites and global eavesdropping net&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}