Mohamed Rashed Daoud Al-Owhali

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Mohamed Rashed Daoud Al-Owhali is one of the four former al-Qaeda members sentenced in 2001 to life without parole for their parts in the 1998 United States embassy bombings^[1][2]. The others are Mohammed Saddiq Odeh, Khalfan Khamis Mohamed, and Wadih el Hage. At the time of this writing, all four are in the supermax prison known as ADX Florence. A number of other suspects are still wanted or awaiting trial for this bombing.

Al-Owhali is a Saudi who attended al-Qaeda's Khalden training camp in 1996^[3][4]. He confessed to his part in the embassy bombings. It was he who delivered the bombs^[5].

In a successful bid to escape the death penalty, al-Owhali's lawyers played video clips from two cabinet members, attesting to the negative impact of sanctions which encouraged him to join Al-Qaeda^[6].

[edit] Provided evidence against other captives in the war on terror

The Summary of Evidence memos prepared for the Combatant Status Review Tribunals of the fourteen "high-value detainees" mentioned Al-Owhali.^[7][8] Fourteen "high-value detaninees" who had been held for years, in secret CIA interrogation camps transferred from CIA custory to military custody in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.

name	notes
Walid Bin Attash	One of the allegations against Walid Bin Attash was:[7] "Mohammad Rashed Daoud Al-Owhali (Al-Owhali) stated that in approximately June or July 1998, the detainee told him that his (Al-Owhali's) mission was a martyrdom mission, where he would be driving a vehicle filled with explosives into a target which would result in his death. The detainee told Al-Owhali the target was a United States embassy in East Africa, but he was not told the exact country."
Abd Al Rahim Hussein Mohammed Al Nashiri‎	One of the allegations against Al Nashiri was:[8] "Mohammad Rashid Daoud Al-Owhali (Al-Owhali), confessed and was later convicted in the United States District Court, Southern District of New York, for his role in the al Qaida bombings of the United States embassies in East Africa, which occurred on 7 August 1998. Al-Owhali obtained a Yemeni passport in the name of Khalid Salim Saleh Bin Rashid. Al-Owhali identified the individual who facilitated Al-Owhali's obtaining a Yemeni passport as Bilal, Bilal is known to Federal Bureau of Investigation investigators as Abdul Rahim al Nashiri, the detainee. Al-Owhali used this same Yemeni passport to travel to Nairobi, Kenya, arriving on 2 August 1998."

[edit] References

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
3. ^ Hijacking suspect 'was bin Laden bodyguard', The Guardian, September 30, 2001
4. ^ The Khaldan Alumni, Toronto Star, December 9, 2005
5. ^ Public enemy No 1 and his lethal machine, The Guardian, September 16, 2001
6. ^ CNN story about the defense's videotape
7. ^ ^{a b} OARDEC (February 8, 2007). Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal - Walid Bin Attash. Department of Defense. Retrieved on April 13, 2007.
8. ^ ^{a b} OARDEC (February 8, 2007). Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal - Al Nashiri, Abd Al Rahim Hussein Mohammed. Department of Defense. Retrieved on April 13, 2007.