Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, described by Maj. Gen.Rashid Qureshi, the media spokesman of Gen.Pervez Musharraf,as "the kingpin of Al Qaeda", was arrested by the Pakistani intelligence officials from the house of the son ( Abdul Qadoos) of a local women's leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami (JEI), at Rawalpindi on March1,2003, and handed over to the officials of the US intelligence community based in Pakistan. The latterimmediately air-lifted him to the US naval base in Diego Garcia for interrogation.