Terror leader studied in North Carolina

Terrorist leader Khalid Sheikh Mohammed "first came to the United States as a student at Chowan College in early 1983, according to the 9/11 Commission Report" as reported on the March 16th N&O.

News and Observer
March 16, 2007
Jay Price, Staff Writer

Mastermind of 9/11 studied in N.C.

The confessed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks spent three years in North Carolina as a college student, his only opportunity to learn the lessons about how to blend into U.S. society that later helped his plotting.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed first came to the United States as a student at Chowan College in early 1983, according to the 9/11 Commission Report.

Mohammed studied a semester at Chowan, a small Baptist college in Murfreesboro -- which is in Hertford County in the northeastern corner of the state. Then he transferred to N.C. A&T State University in Greensboro, according to the commission report. Read more...