Mohammed Odeh

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Mohammed Saddiq Odeh

Odeh being transported to United States from Kenya
Born March 1, 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
Children Yasser Boy
A Palestinian,[2] Mohammed Saddiq Odeh , born March 1, 1965 [1] 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. He is in a supermax prison known as ADX Florence.Name of spouse is Nassem Nassor born August 15, 1969 [1]

In March 1993, Saif al-Adel ordered Mohammed Odeh to Somalia, telling him that his mission was to train tribes in fighting.[3] He has been accused of training forces loyal to warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid in 1993, while other sources have suggested he was training Ittihad al-Islamiyya members.[2][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.[2] 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. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 http://americanjihadists.com/1998-08-31-FBI-FD302-Odeh-all.pdf
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Benjamin, Daniel & Steven Simon. "The Age of Sacred Terror", 2002
  3. ↑ Bergen, Peter, "The Osama bin Laden I Know', 2006.
  4. ↑ Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), Security Intelligence Report concerning Mohamed Harkat, February 22, 2008
  5. ↑ Simon Reeve, The New Jackals: Ramzi Yousef, Osama bin Laden and the future of terrorism, London: Deutsch Limited, 1999, p. 4
  6. ↑ Katz, Samuel M. "Relentless Pursuit: The DSS and the manhunt for the al-Qaeda terrorists", 2002


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