Mohammed Odeh

Mohammed Saddiq Odeh
Odeh being transported to United States from Kenya
Born	Palestine
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

A Palestinian,^[1] Mohammed Saddiq Odeh 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.

In March 1993, Saif al-Adel ordered Mohammed Odeh to Somalia, telling him that his mission was to train tribes in fighting.^[2] 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.^[1][3] 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.^[4]

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.^[1] 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.^[5]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} Benjamin, Daniel & Steven Simon. "The Age of Sacred Terror", 2002
2. ^ Bergen, Peter, "The Osama bin Laden I Know', 2006.
3. ^ Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), Security Intelligence Report concerning Mohamed Harkat, February 22, 2008
4. ^ Simon Reeve, The New Jackals: Ramzi Yousef, Osama bin Laden and the future of terrorism, London: Deutsch Limited, 1999, p. 4
5. ^ Katz, Samuel M. "Relentless Pursuit: The DSS and the manhunt for the al-Qaeda terrorists", 2002

• Copy of indictment USA v. Usama bin Laden et al., Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies
• Four embassy bombers get life, CNN.com, By Phil Hirschkorn, October 21, 2001

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