Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah

Who is Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah?

Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah is an Egyptian national wanted by the United States for his part in the 1998 American embassy bombings in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya. The FBI lists his aliases Abu Mariam, Abu Mohamed Al-Masri, and Saleh, which may be an abbreviation of Saleh Gamal. According to the indictment, Abdullah is a member of the majlis al shura of al-Qaeda, helped 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. It is further alleged that Abdullah told Odeh that he should leave Kenya by 6 August 1998 and that he fled Kenya himself, to Karachi, on the same airliner as Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani.