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SECRET To: National Security From New York Re: (U) 265A-NY-252802, 07/08/1999 The Wahorities described Khalid Shaikh Mohammed as a Pakistani National whose full name is Khalid Al-sheikn 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 B6 b7c Ministry of Electricity in Doha until 1996. Pursued by U:S. 17D Afghanistan and joined the Islamic Union Party Leadership. As of August 199s, he was working as an escort for Sheikh Abdul Rasoul Sayyaf, chief of the Islamic Union Party. 191 (5} (S) 3