Khalid's Motive to Kill Americans

Khalid joined up when he saw the Bosnian War. He originally went to the Philippines to train and then they told him that training the Philippines is like the B League, if you want to go to like the major leagues, go to Afghanistan. So he went to Afghanistan, he trained there and became one of the lead bomb makers and bomb instructors for al-Qaeda. Now when I talked to him, he saw what America was doing in their foreign policy and he believed that it was an attack on his people and his religion. But if you had that same question from Muhammad, he would not answer that same way.

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