It meant that foreign students arrived, took a lot of math and chemistry and tried to improve their English. Of the 54 students in Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's class, 29 were from the Middle East.Ĭhowan didn't require prospective students to take an English proficiency exam, which made it attractive. It began with Ahmed, Abu, Abdullah and continued to names like Smith. "See how many names begin with an A as you go down the group there," Faile says, reading the class roster. embassies all over the Middle East to recruit foreign students. He apparently shipped school brochures out to U.S. The dean of admissions was behind that, Faile said. Faile, his professor, says he sat halfway down the row nearest the door.īack in the 1980s there were lots of Middle Eastern students attending Chowan.
Mohammed studied chemistry in this classroom. Faile, wearing a tie that shows the elements in the periodic table, pulls out an old blue grade book and finds his former student. He's a soft-spoken man from Alabama who has been teaching at Chowan for nearly 40 years. Garth Faile was Mohammed's freshman chemistry teacher. It was an odd requirement for the son of an imam who had been a member of an Islamic group, Muslim Brotherhood, since he was 16.ĭr. That meant prayers, singing and biblical instruction in addition to regular classes.
Nestled among the cotton fields of Murfreesboro, N.C., Mohammed arrived hoping his time at Chowan would become a springboard to an American education.īack in the 1980s, all Chowan students - and that would have included Khalid Sheikh Mohammed - were obliged to study Christianity extensively. Mohammed's first real taste of America came at a small two-year Baptist school called Chowan College in 1983. He has been here before, as a college student in the early 1980s. But it won't be his first trip to America.
KHALID SHEIK MOHAMMED TRIAL
11 terrorist attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, is expected to arrive in New York for trial by the end of the year. Mohammed had excellent grades, Faile says. Garth Faile was Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's chemistry professor when he attended Chowan College, now Chowan University, in the mid-1980s.
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