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Fazul Abdullah Mohammed
Fazul Abdullah Mohammed (Arabic: فاضل عبدالله محمد; born Abdullah Muhammad Fazul Husseine Mullah Ati; Arabic: عبد االله محمد فاضل حسين ملا اتي; 25 August 1972 – 8 June 2011) also known as Fadil Harun, was a Comorian-Kenyan member of al-Qaeda, and the leader of its presence in East Africa. He is regarded as the organiser of the 1998 United States Embassy bombings.
Mohammed was born in the Magoudjou district of Moroni, Comoros, in 1972, although he regularly used alternate birthdates for the year 1974. He was involved in mainstream Sunni Islam teaching since an early age, reciting prayer instructions on Radio Comoro when he was 9 years old. At age 15, he accepted a scholarship in Sudan, where he adopted fundamentalist beliefs, under the guidance of Soidiki M'Bapandza, a preacher had left the Comoros following a short-lived political career of an unpopular Islamist party.
Besides his native Comorian and French, Mohammed learnt to speak Swahili, Arabic, and English.
In his teenage years, Mohammed studied medicine and physics in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. Between 1991 and 1992, while in Afghanistan, he joined al-Qaeda and trained at mujahideen training camps, where he learnt to make explosives and to forge identity documents. In the mid-1990s, he became a religious teacher in Lamu, Kenya, where he married and received citizenship. He obtained a false identity card listing his birthplace as Lamu and his name as Haroon Fazul. By 1998, Mohammed had also acquired a Pakistani passport for the same name.
Mohammed and a number of others were under indictment in the United States for their alleged participation in the 1998 United States embassy bombings in East Africa. He was served with an Interpol arrest warrant since 1998. Mohammed was on the FBI's list of most wanted terrorists since its inception on 10 October 2001. The reward for finding Mohammed was US$5 million.
In Kenya, Mohammed was once the secretary of, and lived in the same house as, Wadih el-Hage. El-Hage was indicted with Mohammed, and has been convicted. A letter to el-Hage, thought to be from Mohammed, was exhibited at el-Hage's trial.
Mohammed spent time in Mogadishu planning a truck bombing against a United Nations establishment there, and was in the city on 3 October 1993, when Somali gunmen brought down two American helicopters and killed 18 U.S. special operations soldiers.
Mohammed was suspected in Kenya of involvement in two attacks in Mombasa on 26 November 2002. One was the truck bombing of Paradise Hotel, in which 15 were killed. The other was the launch of two shoulder-fired missiles at an Israeli airliner on takeoff; the missiles missed and there were no casualties.
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Fazul Abdullah Mohammed
Fazul Abdullah Mohammed (Arabic: فاضل عبدالله محمد; born Abdullah Muhammad Fazul Husseine Mullah Ati; Arabic: عبد االله محمد فاضل حسين ملا اتي; 25 August 1972 – 8 June 2011) also known as Fadil Harun, was a Comorian-Kenyan member of al-Qaeda, and the leader of its presence in East Africa. He is regarded as the organiser of the 1998 United States Embassy bombings.
Mohammed was born in the Magoudjou district of Moroni, Comoros, in 1972, although he regularly used alternate birthdates for the year 1974. He was involved in mainstream Sunni Islam teaching since an early age, reciting prayer instructions on Radio Comoro when he was 9 years old. At age 15, he accepted a scholarship in Sudan, where he adopted fundamentalist beliefs, under the guidance of Soidiki M'Bapandza, a preacher had left the Comoros following a short-lived political career of an unpopular Islamist party.
Besides his native Comorian and French, Mohammed learnt to speak Swahili, Arabic, and English.
In his teenage years, Mohammed studied medicine and physics in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. Between 1991 and 1992, while in Afghanistan, he joined al-Qaeda and trained at mujahideen training camps, where he learnt to make explosives and to forge identity documents. In the mid-1990s, he became a religious teacher in Lamu, Kenya, where he married and received citizenship. He obtained a false identity card listing his birthplace as Lamu and his name as Haroon Fazul. By 1998, Mohammed had also acquired a Pakistani passport for the same name.
Mohammed and a number of others were under indictment in the United States for their alleged participation in the 1998 United States embassy bombings in East Africa. He was served with an Interpol arrest warrant since 1998. Mohammed was on the FBI's list of most wanted terrorists since its inception on 10 October 2001. The reward for finding Mohammed was US$5 million.
In Kenya, Mohammed was once the secretary of, and lived in the same house as, Wadih el-Hage. El-Hage was indicted with Mohammed, and has been convicted. A letter to el-Hage, thought to be from Mohammed, was exhibited at el-Hage's trial.
Mohammed spent time in Mogadishu planning a truck bombing against a United Nations establishment there, and was in the city on 3 October 1993, when Somali gunmen brought down two American helicopters and killed 18 U.S. special operations soldiers.
Mohammed was suspected in Kenya of involvement in two attacks in Mombasa on 26 November 2002. One was the truck bombing of Paradise Hotel, in which 15 were killed. The other was the launch of two shoulder-fired missiles at an Israeli airliner on takeoff; the missiles missed and there were no casualties.
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