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Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah
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Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah (Arabic: عبدالله أحمد عبدالله; born about 1963) (AAA) is an Egyptian national wanted[1][2] by the United States for his part in the 1998 American embassy bombings in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and especially Nairobi, Kenya. His aliases include Abu Mohamed Al-Masri, Saleh, and Abu Mariam.
According to the indictment, AAA
- was a member of the majlis al shura of al-Qaeda
- helped (with Saif al-Adel) to set up terrorist training facilities in Somalia
- provided a false passport to Mohammed Saddiq Odeh to enable the latter to travel to Afghanistan to meet Osama bin Laden
- told Odeh that he should leave Kenya by August 6, 1998 (the day before the bombings)
- fled Kenya himself, to Karachi, on the same airliner as Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani.
AAA's location since he fled Nairobi has been unknown. In the few years after his disappearance, he was generally thought to be in tribal Afghanistan or Pakistan[3]. Later speculation put him in Iran under the protection of the Quds Force,[4] and in Somalia under the protection of the Islamic Courts Union[5]. A more substantial report[6], citing unnamed UN sources, says that AAA and other al-Qaeda personnel were in Liberia around 2001, buying conflict diamonds on behalf of al-Qaeda.
AAA was one of the 22 original members, and is still a member, of the FBI's list of Most Wanted Terrorists. The State Department, through the Rewards for Justice Program, is offering up to US$5 million for information on the location of Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah[7].
- ^ Copy of indictment USA v. Usama bin Laden et. al., Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies
- ^ Wanted poster on AAA, Federal Bureau of Investigation
- ^ Washington Post, October 29, 2002, background on AAA and Saif al-Adl
- ^ Asia Times October 17, 2003, claim about Iran and Quds Force
- ^ canada.com December 25, 2006, claim about Somalia
- ^ Al-Qaeda and diamonds in Liberia, Boston Globe, 4 August 2004
- ^ Wanted Poster on AAA, Rewards for Justice Program