Kalid Shaikh Mohammed was captured by the US in 2003, tortured by the CIA in a secret prison for a while, then shipped to Guantamo to stand lawyerless before a military tribunal that would determine if he was fit to stand before another military tribunal.

• The 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
• The 9/11 attacks, from A to Z.
• The shoe bomber operation to down two American planes.
• Planning to bomb the Panama Canal.
• Planning to assassinate several former American presidents, including President Carter.
• Stock market crash of 1929.
• Sinking of the Maine, Lusitania.
• Lisa “Left-Eye” Lopes’ fatal car accident.
• Suckiness of second Star Wars trilogy.
• Bruce Springsteen’s career-long failure to get a number 1 single.
• Turned Mark Foley gay.
• Nuclear crisis leading to ascendence of superintelligent apes.