Khalfan Khamis Mohamed

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Khalfan Khamis Mohamed (Arabic: خلفان خميس محمد ‎), a Tanzanian national, is one of numerous al-Qaeda suspects who were indicted in 1998^[1], and one of the four who were convicted and sentenced to life without parole in 2001^[2], for their parts in the 1998 United States embassy bombings. Convicted along with Mohamed were Wadih el Hage, Mohammed Saddiq Odeh, and Mohamed Rashid al-Owhali.

It is believed that Mohamed assembled the bomb used against the embassy in the Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and flew to South Africa shortly after the bombing. He was arrested in Cape Town on October 5, 1999.

Khalfan Mohamed allegedly received training in Afghanistan.

On November 2, 2000, Mohamed and Mamdouh Mahmud Salim (also of al-Qaeda) attacked a federal prison guard in a failed escape attempt. The officer was critically injured, having been stabbed in the eye with a sharpened comb, and suffered severe brain damage from the attack^[3]. During the sentencing phase of his trial, prosecutors argued unsuccessfully for capital punishment of Mohamed, due to the continuing threat he posed to prison guards^[3].

Khalfan Khamis Mohamed is held in the supermax prison known as ADX Florence.

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1. ^ Copy of indictment USA v. Usama bin Laden et. al., Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies
2. ^ Four embassy bombers get life, CNN.com, By Phil Hirschkorn, October 21, 2001 Posted: 10:58 AM EDT (1458 GMT)
3. ^ ^{a b} Weiser, Benjamin. "Pondering Terrorist's Execution, Jury Weighs Notes Found in Cell", The New York Times, June 22, 2001.