India, Aug. 29 -- Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM), accused by US authorities of masterminding the September 11, 2001 attacks, was linked to the nickname "Mukhtar" in a CIA human intelligence report received on August 28.

The name "Mukhtar" had already appeared in CIA reporting in the spring of 2001, with multiple reports indicating that a person using the name was recruiting and training terrorists to carry out attacks in the United States, according to a report by News Week.

At the time, the CIA and FBI were focused on placing Khalid al-Mihdhar on watch lists and determining what Zacarias Moussaoui was planning. They were also operating on the assumption that Abu Zubaydah was the mastermind behind the 2001 plots.

However, the emergence o...