Mohammed Odeh
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The Jordanian Mohammed Saddiq Odeh is one of the four former al-Qaeda members sentenced to life imprisonment in 2001 for their parts in the 1998 United States embassy bombings. The others are Mohamed Rashid al-Owhali, 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.
According to the indictment, Odeh used the alias Khalid Salim in two telephone calls to Yemen on the day of the embassy bombings.
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- 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
