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SEERET To: National Security From: New ‘York Re: {U) 265A-NY-252802, 07/08/1999 zal Ipaorscies described Khalid Shaikh Mohammed as a Pakistani NationaiMwhose full name is Khalid Al-Sheikh Muhammad Ali Doustin Al-Baloushi, Aka Abu Hamza. He was born in Kuwait in 1965 and stayed there through secondary school. In 1984 he traveled to the United States were he earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. He returned to Kuwait, and unable to find employment, left for Peshawar, Pakistan in 1989, where he joined the Hizbul-Ittihad El-Islami {Islamic Union Party), the Abdul Rasoul Sayyaf Group. In 1992 he went to Qatar and worked for the Ministry of Electricity in Doha until 1996. Pursued by U.S. authorities for his involvement with Ramzi Yousef, he traveled to Afghanistan and joined the Islamic Union Party Leadership. As of August 1998, he was working as an escort for Sheikh Abdul Rasoul Sayyaf, chief of the Islamic Union Party.