Mohammed Odeh
| Mohammed Saddiq Odeh | |
|---|---|
|
Odeh being transported to United States from Kenya | |
| Born |
1 March 1965[1] Tabouk, Saudi Arabia |
| Arrested |
1998 Karachi, Pakistan Inter-Services Intelligence and FBI |
| Citizenship | Jordanian and Kenyan |
| Detained at | ADX Florence, Colorado |
| Alternate name | Khalid Salim |
| ISN | 42375-054 |
| Alleged to be a member of | al-Qaeda |
| Charge(s) | 1998 US embassy attacks |
| Penalty | life imprisonment (2001) |
| Status | in prison |
| Spouse | Nassem Nassor born August 15, 1969 [1] |
| Children | Yasser Boy |
Mohammed Saddiq Odeh (born 1 March 1965)[1] is a Palestinian terrorist and one of the four former al-Qaeda members sentenced to life imprisonment in 2001 for their parts in the 1998 United States embassy bombings. He is in a supermax prison known as ADX Florence.
In March 1993, Saif al-Adel ordered Mohammed Odeh to Somalia, telling him that his mission was to train tribes in fighting.[2] He has been accused of training forces loyal to warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid in 1993, while other sources have suggested he was training Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya members.[3][4] The following year he was sent to Mombassa, Kenya with money from Mohammed Atef to purchase himself a 7-tonne trawler and start a fishing business.[5]
An engineer with joint Kenyan and Jordanian citizenship, Odeh was arrested after departing his flight from Nairobi to Karachi with a forged Yemeni passport with a photograph that clearly did not match his face.[3] He was interrogated by ISI agents when he listed his flight destination as "Afghanistan", and confessed to his role in the bombings, claiming that seven men had plotted them together. A week later he was returned to Nairobi, where he was taken into custody of the FBI.[6]
References
- 1 2 3 http://americanjihadists.com/1998-08-31-FBI-FD302-Odeh-all.pdf
- ↑ Bergen, Peter, "The Osama bin Laden I Know', 2006.
- 1 2 Benjamin, Daniel & Steven Simon. "The Age of Sacred Terror", 2002
- ↑ Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), Security Intelligence Report concerning Mohamed Harkat, February 22, 2008
- ↑ Simon Reeve, The New Jackals: Ramzi Yousef, Osama bin Laden and the future of terrorism, London: Deutsch Limited, 1999, p. 4
- ↑ Katz, Samuel M. "Relentless Pursuit: The DSS and the manhunt for the al-Qaeda terrorists", 2002
- Copy of indictment USA v. Usama bin Laden et al., Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies
- Four embassy bombers get life, CNN.com, By Phil Hirschkorn, October 21, 2001