Ahmed Mohammed Hamed Ali

Ahmed Mohammed Hamed Ali (Arabic: أحمد محمّد حامد علي‎) (circa 1965 - 2010) was an Egyptian national wanted by the United States government in connection with the 1998 United States embassy bombings in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi.

Aliases

Life before the bombings

It is thought that, before becoming an accomplice in bombing various American embassies, Hamed Ali worked in the field of agriculture, with formal training in the industry.^[1] American Homeland Security officials considered Ali an operative of al-Qaeda.^[2] Hamed Ali had been part of an al Qaeda cell operating in Somalia in the early 1990s that provided training to Somali tribesmen who attacked U.S. forces in that country, according to his indictment. Hamed Ali lived in Kenya until fleeing the country on August 2, 1998. He located himself in Karachi, Pakistan until the bombings on August 7, 1998.^[1]

Indicted for the 1998 American embassy bombings

Ali was indicted for his suspected role in the 1998 United States embassy bombings by a grand jury in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.^[3][1] The United States Government's Rewards for Justice program had offered a 5 million US dollar reward for information directly leading to the capture of Hamed Ali.^[3]

On October 10, 2001, he was placed on the initial list of the FBI's top 22 Most Wanted Terrorists. He served as al-Qaeda's Chief of Paramilitary Operations in Afghanistan.

Death

The National Counterterrorism Center reported in 2011 that Ali was killed in a drone strike in Pakistan in 2010.^[4][5] By May 2012, Ali was no longer listed as a wanted terrorist by either Rewards for Justice^[6] or the FBI.^[7]

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