Khalfan Khamis Mohamed

Khalfan Khamis Mohamed ( _ar. Mohammed Saddiq Odeh] , and Mohamed Rashid al-Owhali.

It is believed that Mohamed assembled the bomb used against the embassy in the Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and flew to South Africa shortly after the bombing. He was arrested in Cape Town on October 5, 1999.

Khalfan Mohamed allegedly received training in Afghanistan.

On November 2, 2000, Mohamed and Mamdouh Mahmud Salim (also of al-Qaeda) attacked a federal prison guard in a failed escape attempt. The officer was critically injured, having been stabbed in the eye with a sharpened comb, and suffered severe brain damage from the attackcite news |title=Pondering Terrorist's Execution, Jury Weighs Notes Found in Cell |publisher=The New York Times |date=June 22, 2001 |author=Weiser, Benjamin] . During the sentencing phase of his trial, prosecutors argued unsuccessfully for capital punishment of Mohamed, due to the continuing threat he posed to prison guards.

Khalfan Khamis Mohamed is held in the supermax prison known as ADX Florence.

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