Citizenship Jordanian and Kenyan Name Mohammed Odeh | ISN 42375-054 Alternate name Khalid Salim Detained at ADX Florence | |
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Born 1 March 1965 (age 59)
Tabouk, Saudi Arabia ( 1965-03-01 ) Arrested 1998
Karachi, Pakistan
Inter-Services Intelligence and FBI Charge(s) 1998 US embassy attacks | ||
Alleged to be a member of al-Qaeda | ||
Mohammed Saddiq Odeh (born 1 March 1965) is a Palestinian terrorist and 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.
In March 1993, Saif al-Adel ordered Mohammed Odeh to Somalia, telling him that his mission was to train tribes in fighting. He has been accused of training forces loyal to warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid in 1993, while other sources have suggested he was training Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya members. 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.
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. 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.