Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh	Khalid Sheikh Mohammed ("KSM")
Born Britain, 23 December 1973, of Pakistani parentage	Born Kuwait, 1 March 1964 or 14 April 1964, of Pakistani parentage
?	"Mastermind of" 9/11 and other plots
Said to be an agent of Pakistani military intelligence, the ISI	(Later) Said to have connections with the ISI ("Inter-Services Intelligence")
"[T]rained the ["9/11 hijackers"] in hijacking techniques", British police believed in 2001 ("David Bamber et al, London house linked to US plot", Telegraph [UK], 30 Sept. 2001)	Later, said to have instructed "9/11 hijackers" (in Western culture etc), Karachi, Pakistan, Dec. 1999 (9/11 Commission Report, chapter 5, p.157 [HTML version]. Based on "intelligence reports" (from the CIA's prison network).)
Sent about $100,000 to "9/11 lead hijacker" Atta, using alias "Mustafa Muhammad Ahmad", at the instance of ISI chief Mahmoud Ahmad	Sent $114,500 to Atta and other lead hijackers in US, in five transfers from Dubai, between 29 June and 17 Sept. 2000, via "nephew" Ali Abdul Aziz Ali. (9/11 Commission Report, chapter 7, p.224 [HTML version])
Arrested Lahore, 12 Feb. 2002 (by Pakistani police)	"Captured" Rawalpindi, 1 March 2003, "by ISI intelligence"
ISI chief Mahmoud Ahmad, Saeed's boss, comes to the US on 4 Sept. 2001. From then until 9 Sept., he meets with CIA chief George Tenet. On the morning of 9/11, Ahmad was having a "breakfast meeting" with Porter Goss and other Congressional security chiefs on Capitol Hill.	KSM's "nephew", Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, applied (in late August 2001) for a visa to enter the US on 4 September 2001 "for one week" (having got KSM's permission to join the 9/11 operation, but was rejected on fears he might be an economic migrant) (9/11 Commission Report, chapter 7, pp.236, 220 [HTML version]; and ibid, Notes, p.527, note 112 [HTML version]; Steve Coll, Ghost Wars (Penguin, 2005 edn), p.571.)
Charged with the kidnap and murder of journalist Daniel Pearl (who went to Pakistan to investigate terrorist links)) Sentenced to hang, July 2002 Goes back on confession, and is spared	Called in 2003 "mastermind of" Pearl kidnapping, and his killer (But then disappears into CIA gulag)
?	Transferred from secret CIA jail to Guantanamo, Cuba (along with 13 others), US President announces 6 Sept. 2006