Khalid Sheikh Mohammad (KSM) is being projected by US officials and the army of so-called non-governmental counter-terrorism experts, who have sprung up since 9/11, as if he is the Field-Marshal Montgomery or Gen. Patton or Gen. Rommel of Al Qaeda, but his case is getting curiouser and curiouser -- just like the earlier case about the kidnapping and murder of Daniel Pearl, the US journalist.